BlueJacketGuy

Engine torque alone disproves this. Either that being uncorrected turning tendencies, or engine out operations in a twin. An intentional slip used as a maneuver shows that the wings can be level and the aircraft can be both hold a heading and be uncoordinated. Induced drag from aileron deflection will caused adverse yaw, I know many planes that require aileron to maintain wings level flight. Do you have any operational experience in prop driven aircraft? If you do, I implore you to chair fly a slip, climb, do slow flight, etc with your feet on the floor only using ailerons. I reiterate, holding heading is not coordination.

This is 100% incorrect. It fails to take into account aerodynamic effects from the engine, or asymmetrical airframe drag. Even then, I can be wings level and uncoordinated in a glider as well.

That's not quite correct. Yawing and coordination are not bound to one another. For example, during a coordinated turn, there's yaw, but also coordination. I can hold a heading while uncoordinated as well, it's just that my plane isn't pointing directly into the wind. A similar topic would be, you can stall while uncoordinated, and not spin, so long as there isn't any yawing. It's the yawing that causes differing alpha on each wing, and not the coordination, so without an active yaw moment, you won't necessarily spin (assuming prop torque/p-factor doesn't take over). However, during a coordinated stall, even if you're yawing/changing heading, by being coordinated, you have equal airflow over each wing. Thanks for the quick answers guys. I can't say I like this slip/skid indicator though. It's not like the airplanes at home in FREEDOM LAND.

I can't seem to find the ball in the cockpit, and it's quite difficult to fly a prop without one. Am I going blind?

Your path doesn't effect your aircraft outcome, however, going through OTS in this day and age only gives drone slots, I haven't heard of pilot slots through OTS in years. IIRC, only about 5% of USAF officers are pilots. Depending on your commissioning route, that will decide how you apply. USAFA & AFROTC work like this, you get in, and have to commit to joining the USAF before applying for jobs, and then at that point you might be selected as a pilot, it's not assured. In OTS, you sign up for your job specifically, and are guaranteed it so long as you graduate. The issue here is they don't offer pilot slots through OTS these days to my understanding, it's too coveted for ROTC to give to OTS. You can apply for pilot training while in another job, but it's a rough road to take, better chances than OTS though. With the Reserves and Guard, you sign up for your unit's aircraft, and your guaranteed that plane so long as you don't wash out. Your aircraft are decided by your track, and proficiency. Someone outlined the old track system up there, but the new one condensed the prop track into the heavy track. Basically, you list your preferences, and the slots will be given by class ranking until they're gone. Tracks are fighter/bomber in the T-38, Heavy in the T-1, and helo in the Huey, which transitions you to Army UPT for the duration of that. It's harder to track helos than fighters, because there are less helo slots per class than fighters. Most people get stuck in heavies, thats where most of the slots are. If you track fighters, you'll probably get FAIPed (stuck teaching UPT instead of flying real planes), or sent to the F-16, the most common fighter. To become an officer, it's anywhere from 4 years to 2 months, it all depends on your commissioning source. To be a pilot it's ~one year for UPT the initial training, and about a year for your FTU, the formal training unit that teaches your specific airframe, but that varies alot based on what your fly. Also, you may have to wait a year between your commission and training while you await your slot, enjoy sitting on your hands butterbar ****wit.

I don't know about you guys, but I still haven't seen the C-101 pop up on steam to buy. I mean, I know it takes a bit to bring modules over to Steam, but this has been quite a while. Are there any updates to this I haven't seen, or any things I don't know about? Will the C-101 ever come to Steam?

I should also mention I was flying it fine until changed over the flying a P-51, and it started with not giving me control of the aircraft. Before then, everything was working, and now Im spectating AI, controlling the aircraft I was going to fly.

The alt+j didn't work, and Im not using the mission builder. Im flying using the instant action, and it does this with all planes.

Whenever I start any flying, the aircraft I was planning to fly is flying itself and is acting as if it is another normal AI aircraft. Did I hit a wrong button that caused it, or what. Thanks.