Analysis of the flight model in MSFS

Hi.  There seems to be a lot of confusion about the flight model in MSFS.  Anyways, a poster named noballer08 over at the official MSFS forums dug into the SDK to determine exactly what the flight model was:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/modern-flight-model/232844/3

Anyways, if you agree that noballer08 did a good analysis of the flight model, this is noballer08's initial impression is of the flight model:

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But, just at first glance, it looks like a really good flight model. Accomplishes the same geometrically-dependent aerodynamic loads that XPlane does with it’s BET/wing-strip method, albeit with more resolution. Definitely the SDK needs much better organization, and the flight model as a whole probably needs additional corrections (such as for compressibility).

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/modern-flight-model/232844/11

Edited September 24, 20205 yr by abrams_tank