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bongodriver

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  1. Your video doesn't seem to play for me. Here's a video of mine that shows what my feet do handling another quirky British taildragger. Nice post by Chief instructor and I second very much the difference VR makes to flight siming, I also think that something like force feedback rudders would be a vast improvement in our lives too.
  2. Ignore, I thought it was about the DI, ADI will settle itself after a short period of level flight.
  3. it does exactly the same job as the ball, even works in the same sense, just a different indicator is all.
  4. No ball in a Spitfire, instead it has the turn and slip indicator, it's the top needle that indicates slip.
  5. this replica Spitfire is actually a French designed kit plane by Marcel Jurca called the MJ-100, the plans can be bought and you source your own materials to build it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurca_Spit http://www.marcel-jurca.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=209&Itemid=245&lang=fr heres another one
  6. it was easy enough, simply provided the facts and evidence that it should be so and the devs acted accordingly to correct the issue.
  7. put a rivet out of place on a 109 though.....
  8. open a new thread and ask is the best way forward I guess, this one is beginning to derail.
  9. If the gun port is properly designed then the effect is absolutely minimal, open gun ports such as on the spitfire produce less effect than faired types such as the P-51, you probably get more drag and Cl reduction from the cannons on the Spit than from the gun ports. The primary reason for the fabric patches was to prevent the ingress of debris on take off and ice at altitude, once the guns are fired it's not like the patches disappear but rather end up a bit tatty, either way the effect should be unnoticeable from the pilots perspective but maybe as mentioned by someone else you would burn a few cup fulls extra of fuel. There certainly doesn't seem to be any hard data on the Spitfire gun ports and historically it has never sounded like a problem so we should leave it to the devs and their discretion. Some research on the issue. (for me the .PDF didn't open in browser but was able to download and view) https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19930093506
  10. it was a rhetorical question, I know how it works, I'm just surprised Goblin doesn't
  11. I don't understand your point. in the real aircraft the covers must be manually opened to gain access to the buttons, this is being simulated in the software, in order to physically control that function in a sim-pit there must be an electronic switch to tell the computer the cover has been opened and that function must be assignable in the software. without opening the cover there is no pressing the button so the opening and closing is not a consequence at all but a necessity. Not sure I'd be wasting assignments on a HOTAS controller for mundane functions like start buttons anyway, you are sat on the ground with all the time in the world to open and close covers and clickable pits spare you from the problem of assigning functions anyway.
  12. Use the mouse to click open/close the covers and assign keyboard buttons to the start and boost, it couldn't be simpler. how is the computer supposed to know you have opened your sim pit mechanical cover without an electrical signal to tell it so?
  13. Be interested to know if my oxygen mask issue has been taken into consideration.
  14. OK so not directly related to the Spit but this chap will only be seen in it, the mask shown in the recent pics show the pilot wearing an 'M' type oxygen mask which is a mask from the 1950's and used mostly in Canberras, it should be either 'E' or 'G' Type for the period up to 1944 and an 'H' type post 1944. 'M' Type as seen in the screenshots Correct 'E' type. later 'F' Type 'H' Type (very commonly seen to this day by warbird pilots who like period gear) modernised version of the 'H' with current spec microphone. some useful info on flight equipment history http://www.best-of-flightgear.dk/ukoxymask.htm
  15. Nothing clumsy or interpretive about a realistic function, it's hardly an imposition either, 2 mouse clicks should take less than a second to close them and there's plenty of time while waiting for the engine to warm up.
  16. But isn't the spring simply for the 'over centre' action so they hold open and hold closed, they aren't meant to be permanently sprung shut.
  17. a 2010's MkIX is still using 1940's start and booster buttons, wobble pumps and Ki-gas primer, Merlin engine etc etc, they are completely authentic and have no modern manufactured mechanical replacement parts with the exception of perhaps spark plugs, perishables and propeller blades, look in the cockpit of the 2010 MH434 and you are looking at the cockpit of a 1940's MH434 with the addition of a modern radio, I would bet that the 1940's start procedure could be used with no issues but in the last 70 years there have been some changes in technique. Socrates may have found a better way to swing his axe.
  18. brilliant!! Now what would the man who owns the Fighter collection know about warbirds? I also downloaded a copy of a Mk IX Spit flying manual off the internet and this also makes me a Spitfire expert and I agree, operating the same controls in the 21st century is nothing like it was in the 1940's.
  19. No frustration really, I'm perfectly at ease with the way the real world works, I know how and why these limits are set. Yep, just like I said, 5 minutes guaranteed and beyond that you take your chances.....just keep watching those temps.
  20. No, it could fail after 10, 15 minutes or 10 seconds, it will be completely random, 5 minutes is simply meant to be a safe guaranteed time limit. Nobody wants to ignore limits.
  21. 5 minutes is simply a guarantee, beyond which the manufacturer is absolved of responsibility, it does not mean the engine will fail promptly at 5:01.
  22. At least it would be nice to have a realistic trim/flap axis for offline flying, I still don't see how this apparent cheat works, instant trim and flaps would cause more problems than benefits in real life. is there any evidence that people really can cheat like this?
  23. it doesn't avoid it at all though, you can still quickly clean up the flaps and you can still assign the flaps to buttons on the joystick. All it does is prevent people from using the wheels in a more realistic way.
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