[CLOSED] wings break off at 4g

For me it's always the right wing which blows off, never the left. I am testing as we speak...

Funny I always lose the left wing.

Okay, now it was the left

Guess it depends on turn direction, the inner wing is usually higher loaded and I usually make right turns in combat (torque help)

Maybe it is just a manifestation of the sabotage that was rife in late war German equipment. Have you read the reports written by the ferry pilots?

Just a few missing rivets and bang, there goes a wing!

Seriously though, I can definitely confirm that for short durations, as high as 7G is possible in a similar aircraft - the Yak52. They're stressed to +9 and -3G as fas as I recall, and I have certainly pulled +7 and -3 without any blacking out. You sit in an upright posture in the Yak too, and as long as you strain, you can stand 7G for a few seconds, and lesser G loadings for longer.

That gives me the impression that WW2 aircrew would be able to hold fairly high G - unless of course the strain method was unknown to them? Without that, I dare say 4G would give them serious problems, and any higher they'd soon reach their limits.

So, do we know if WW2 pilots even knew about strain methods of keeping the blood high in their bodies?

nvm

You're right, The 109 only has an L-shaped 400L Fuel Tank behind/under the pilots seat. There is no fuel in the wings.

Then wings could take more beating G?

Funny I always lose the left wing.

Same here

So, do we know if WW2 pilots even knew about strain methods of keeping the blood high in their bodies?

I recall accounts of allied pilots saying that they were told to shout during high Gs. I don't know what the situation was for Germans though.

The most likely is that they did some maneuvers but didn't know how best to implement the combined Valsalva with leg squeeze and breathing, that is used today etc.

I was practising the single mission against the P51.

About 4 times in a row in the initial head on pass (very close to each ither) the wing tips ripped off seconds after the P51 passed by. This was before I started to make the turn and load up any G's on the airframe.

At first I thought he must have fired and got lucky, but the debrief indicated a clean pass. On all occasions this was accompanied by a fuselage fire.

I am sure that most of these underdeveloped areas of the aircraft the programmers know about. But thanks for taking the time to listen to us the users and being so patient while you are doing it.

So far every module that ED has had time with has turned out to be the best available of any made for my home computer.

Thanks for cruising the forums and helping us with questions and submissions.

The reality for me is I have more than enough aircraft here to play with while they are finishing it, I just have to fly within the constraints that are present at this time.

Thanks ED for letting us have it early.:drunk:

Well said.

Is Rolling G limit modelled in DCS ? The reason I ask is that in the limited K4 flying I have done I tend to loose a wingtip easier if Rolling and pulling. given IRL Rolling G limits are significantly lower than symmetrical G limits.

I've only lost wings during rolls... Straight pull I can usually black out before anything falls off...

Now that you mention it, I believe that on most of the occasions I lost mine I was in some rolling process too :)

I've been able to get blackout without losing the wings too, just as you mentioned.

Trying to play a pair of missions starting airborne against 2 or 4 p51ds is useless becasue as soon as I get into dogfight my wing tips go away :-/

P-51 got also lower G tolerance in rolling manouvers.

For me the bigger problem was the lack of tunnel vision.

In beta version i pulled 8.8 g b4 my wing broke.But no black vision at all.

In real life you feel the G force on your body but in game imho we need some kind of visual warning i guess.Or audio(metal stress sounds and what not).

Sith i know you already reported this but just wanted to express my opinion.

Example, I put the 109 in a steep dive, took it to the edge of max speed, and tried to recover/level out, but not overly aggressive, I started to see the tunnel, but never broke a wing.... but if I was overly aggressive, the wing would snap and the G's would subside before I had a chance to see the blackness creep in.... of course I would spiral to my death :)

I still think some form of fedback should be made available for users without FF controllers.

We should be able to "feel" the controls stifness as we aproach higher speeds / Gs...

Welll, ELITE does it very plausibly, both in their "Pilot" versions and in the FNPT using or not hydarulically actuated controllers, but even MSFS is capable of doing the same. Aerowinx Ps1 was yet another good example...

In X-Plane there is also the chance to program this, when not using FF controllers, through a method called "Control Phase-Out", that is there in the first place for different reasons ( pertaining to the modeling of FBW systems... ) but can be used to recreate a sensation of running away of control auhtority / effectiveness at higher speeds and Gs...

This is one of the few negative aspects of DCS's FDM IMHO, and I am speaking from the perspective of someone who does not own a FF controller. The first time I felt it was when I started using the p51d.

Curiously, to mention yet another flight simulator where this is only modeled plausibly if you use a FF controller, but if you do then it is, as I was told by various credible sources, extremelly well modeled, is Rise of Flight. As a user of this sim, I can say that appart from entering accelerated stalls, I was at first negatively impressed by the way my ww1 machines responded to control inputs ( eventually breaking their wings ) without much hint of forces being required to operate them.... The truth is that the sim was programmed to be used preferably with a FF joystick, and then it is said that the results are indeed probably the best achieved in any PC-base flight simulation game so far.

How's DCS FF? Is it good as well?

Yes I know about all of the arguments regarding our sticks not being comparable to RW sticks, bla.. bla... and I agree with that, but even if we use real size / course sticks, the problems will be there because there's no plausible forme of force feedback...

No worries, internally I think it is working better, that said, be-careful you are pulling real manoeuvres and not something a pilot simple wouldn't do, I can pull so hard on the stick that I can snap a wing off before the blackout has a chance to start... but its not a real manoeuvre, would be suicide I think.

 

Example, I put the 109 in a steep dive, took it to the edge of max speed, and tried to recover/level out, but not overly aggressive, I started to see the tunnel, but never broke a wing.... but if I was overly aggressive, the wing would snap and the G's would subside before I had a chance to see the blackness creep in.... of course I would spiral to my death :)

I was doing a downward spiral.Something i would do in a fight. I had no idea i was pulling so much g.

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