Elastic Stop Question

I was looking through Baltic Dragon's excellent new manual and noticed that it said:

In DCS, the ability to exceed the elastic stop is provided by using a

button, as flight sim joysticks don’t include a physical stop on the pitch

axis. The button used is shared with the AP off feature.

Is this correct? I have been able to pull 9g's without holding the AP off feature. I read through some earlier threads and got conflicting information.

Well, pushing this button you would have been able to pull 10g's or more. It saved my a**, sorry, my life, twice, preventing from ground impact.

I was looking through Baltic Dragon's excellent new manual and noticed that it said:

 

In DCS, the ability to exceed the elastic stop is provided by using a

button, as flight sim joysticks don’t include a physical stop on the pitch

axis. The button used is shared with the AP off feature.

 

Is this correct? I have been able to pull 9g's without holding the AP off feature. I read through some earlier threads and got conflicting information.

The hard stop allows to exceed 9G/ 29° AoA limitation.

Indeed, in DCS, you have to pull the stick and hold "AP off" button.

The hard stop allows to exceed 9G/ 29° AoA limitation.

Indeed, in DCS, you have to pull the stick and hold "AP off" button.

Well this is going to be fun :)

Does the plane break easily like in the SU-27 or is it more likely that you'll GLOC first?

Well this is going to be fun :)

 

Does the plane break easily like in the SU-27 or is it more likely that you'll GLOC first?

No, the plane is light and a delta wing is very stiff.

You can break Su-27 wing when you're above "combat fuel" = 5240kg.

Max fuel is 9400kg.

In such case you have fuel in forward fuselage tank and wing tanks.

It's like the Su-27 carry external tanks internally, and you have flight limitations when you have fuel in it, like you would have with Mirage external tanks.

Mirage => G-lock before damaging the plane.