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Virtavia XB-70 & Winds aloft..

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Public safety announcement - the Valkyrie doesn't like the wind up her!

I finally purchased Pete Dowson's FSUIPC4 the other week, mainly because I finally decided I should fly the big iron with winds aloft and it must be said that so far the wind smoothing function works well. I think I've only had one incidence of overspeed and even then it was brief and didn't cause much of an issue.

However, tonight I discovered that the XB-70 cannot deal with any winds aloft once she goes supersonic. She begins to bank one way then after a little while banks the other way, then even further until she rolls over. I was watching the wind readout from the status line (shift-z) and even when it was steady in one direction, the plane exhibited the same behaviour.

Once I'd turned off winds aloft via FSOpen Clouds, she flew as she should - I jockeyed the throttle(s) and vertical speed through the transonic and supersonic phases. Manchester to Reykjavik in not a lot of time! :blink: :cool:

Mark Robinson

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Are you dropping your wingtips down to enable the "compression lift" function? That might help to steady the aircraft once you pass super-sonic and start toward MACH 3. 

Charlie Aron

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Hi Charlie. Yes - 1/2 down between M0.95 to M1.4 then full down after that. I don't think she'd actually get anywhere close to M3.0 without the droop to be honest. Your input is appreciated! :cool:

Mark Robinson

Part-time Ferroequinologist

Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon)

I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation

Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)

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