Alfredson007 Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 (edited) a former finnish testpilot said on one youtube video that he once told his fellow saab draken pilots to see how steeply mig-21 can take off, having just 500 litres of fuel in -25 celsius weather and some headwind, how the plane climbs like 1:1 ratio including the takeoff roll, 45 degree nose up etc. The saab pilots were impressed, because he did not mention anything how low he was on fuel. It's a fun experiment that works well. If you want to take it to the extreme, climb steeply to 6kms or so, and land, i ran out of fuel on taxiway about one minute after leaving runway .. :pilotfly: Edited August 27, 2017 by Alfredson007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VZ_342 Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Zoom! How did you descend? Engine at idle, descending spiral? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfredson007 Posted August 27, 2017 Author Share Posted August 27, 2017 Usually i take it to very extreme, i climb at 50-55 degrees nose up for a while and avoidin 0G so my engines won't die, then i roll the plane over and when the nose is towards horizon and i have 400kmh or so i'll idle and do a tight pattern. The whole flight is over within few minutes. If you are efficient you have "plenty" of fuel. This is actually my new favourite if i want to do a very quickie flight with MiG. Remember to set -25 celsius and maybe a tad higher than standard air pressure helps too. Now it's a rocket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muamshai Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 got the link of that interview? This space is available for your advertisement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfredson007 Posted August 27, 2017 Author Share Posted August 27, 2017 got the link of that interview? and part 3 It's in finnish. Jyrki Laukkanen is the most experienced military pilot in Finland, he's flow over 150 different airplanes and every single Mig-21BIS of finnish air force as a test pilot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HugePanic Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 nice experiment.... I just did 2 attempts. one with 23°C and one with -1.3°C... how can you adjust -25°C? the funny part is landing the mig with now the dead engine, that is a pretty good training... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfredson007 Posted August 27, 2017 Author Share Posted August 27, 2017 nice experiment.... I just did 2 attempts. one with 23°C and one with -1.3°C... how can you adjust -25°C? the funny part is landing the mig with now the dead engine, that is a pretty good training... from weather tab in mission editor i just put -25.. nothing to it.. and add some air pressure etc... i do not have to do dead stick landing, even though i only have fumes left on ground Here's 0-11000 ft with extreme climb angle :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HugePanic Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 I have tried to do similar.. I just cannot set the temp. below -1.6°C. I think this is due to the fact that I fly in Tonopah.. Anyhow, I have just tried to zoom +5000m. Means from 1670 to 7000 ASL. I have found that the steepest climb, is not the fastes... as expected, but nice to see... Makes 1.25min to go to climb 5000m..... THAT is cool..... Sorry, I did not record audio.... :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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