LowRider88 Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 Please excuse me if this suggestion has already been raised, or if it already possible to do. Is there a way the user can steer his parachute drop as they do in real life by pulling on strings? It would also be great if trackir worked during a parachute drop so users can look around as part of the steering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonCalzone Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 If you'd fly german warbirds it would actually be historically correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinder Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 (edited) Please excuse me if this suggestion has already been raised, or if it already possible to do. Is there a way the user can steer his parachute drop as they do in real life by pulling on strings? It would also be great if trackir worked during a parachute drop so users can look around as part of the steering. Steerable parachutes weren't widely used for troops until fairly recently, in a sense that they require a specific design, on plain canopies, we would pull the elevators, to which the lines are attached and even the lines themselves to deform the canopy, to try to counter the effect of the wind during landing. On the circular steerable type, this translates by missing panels from where the airflow would escape, the lines attached to rings to steer it would simply deform the canopy and channel the airflow. The "butterfly" type is derived from those simple steerable canopies, they often ad more openings and side panels, the first type could give you a horizontal speed of 4 m/s maximum, vs 7 m/s vertical speed, the following type could more than double the horizontal speed. In the frame of WWII, you wouldn't find anything else than plain circular canopies, even the Russian Paratroopers who would drop with manual opening used plain canopies. When it comes to escape systems, square and triangular canopies have been used, mainly on Russian ejection seats, but it is more generally the circular type which is used, steerable or not. Edited June 21, 2020 by Thinder Win 11Pro. Corsair RM1000X PSU. ASUS TUF Gaming X570-PLUS [WI-FI], AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3D, Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nitro+ Vapor-X 24GB GDDR6. 32 GB G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series (4 x 8GB) RAM Cl14 DDR4 3600. Thrustmaster HOTAS WARTHOG Thrustmaster. TWCS Throttle. PICO 4 256GB. WARNING: Message from AMD: Windows Automatic Update may have replaced their driver by one of their own. Check your drivers. M-2000C. Mirage F1. F/A-18C Hornet. F-15C. F-5E Tiger II. MiG-29 "Fulcrum". Avatar: Escadron de Chasse 3/3 Ardennes. Fly like a Maineyak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowRider88 Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 Great details and research. Makes it all the more interesting if you could steer in some cases and not in others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worrazen Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Question is, are any of the pilot's ejection seat parachutes streerable? Probably some time until we get paradrop support for cargo and units in DCS. Modules: A-10C I/II, F/A-18C, Mig-21Bis, M-2000C, AJS-37, Spitfire LF Mk. IX, P-47, FC3, SC, CA, WW2AP, CE2. Terrains: NTTR, Normandy, Persian Gulf, Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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