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Also 1.5 mit der Su25T ist eigentlich schon das gescheiteste für Anfänger. Wenn man auch Propellermaschinen mag kann man sich auch an die Trainer Mustang heranwagen (die ist ja auch gratis dabei), die ist aber etwas bockiger zu fliegen, wenn man das nicht so gewohnt ist. Am besten startest du mal mit den Tutorials der Su25T, da wird eigentlich alles recht gut erklärt. Eine F16 wär schon was, hätte ich auch gern, von ansprechenden Mods weiß ich derweil aber auch nix, dafür gibts irgendwann mal eine F/A 18C, was ja etwas vergleichbares ist. Was die Ansichten betrifft hast du Kontrollen für die Ansichten auf dem Numpad, ich glaube +- war für Zoom. Alle die das ganze ernsthafter betreiben, haben aber irgendeine Form von Headtracking zum Umschauen oder eine VR-Brille ;)

Hab seit geraum Zeit auch 4k in Betrieb (wenn auch nicht ganz so ein starkes System) und hab es bis dato nicht bereut. :pilotfly:

Well for the airplane in flight, the only thing that really matters is the movement of the airframe relative to the medium surrounding it. So if you are in the air just going straight from your own point of view, you get taken with the air around you. Just like when you are on a boat crossing on a big river (without any changes in velocity of the flow), you paddle straight towards the other shore, but get dragged along with the flow. Now if you want to "land" on the shore with zero relative velocity to it, you have to counteract the flow velocity of the river, "crab" so to speak. It is all a matter of point of view, basically.

OK, so I went back and did my research on the matter, as it kept gnawing on me, and of course you are right. While I was right in the description of the effect and what causes it, I had the wrong assumption that a sideslip angle was present whilst in the air. However, as you move through the air, no sideslip angle is present, if there are no gusts or pilot input, as from the point of view of the airplane, the whole medium around it moves, so only the relative movement of the aircraft to the medium counts. I don't quite know how I could forget about that, but I think I got it mixed up with the whole dynamic mode stuff during my thinking process (stuff like spiral modes where you have a sideslip induced fin force). That, and undercoffeinated Mondays... :doh: This got me thinking and let me pull out the books on the matter. Thanks for that. :thumbup: Your observations are correct as always ;) Mondays appear to do strange things with thought processes...

It actually does "push harder" at the tail, since there is nothing to "grab onto" anywhere at the nose of an airplane for a crosswind component. In other terms, the profile shape of the tailfin generates lift pointing in a horizontal direction (left or right, one might call it), thus generating torque around the center of gravity of the plane, resulting in rotational acceleration around the planes vertical axis (also some roll, since the tailfin is usually above the CoG). Lift is generated, since the crosswind component lets the air hit the tailfin at an angle of attack >0, so that even a symmetrical profile as used on tailfins generates lift (beware this is angle of attack on the profile of the tailfin as a result of the sideslip angle beta, not the typical angle of attack alpha). So yeah, theoretically, a plane would, without any inputs, weathervane into the wind (provided it is aerodynamically stable). But since an airplane usually gets controlled (and trimmed) by a pilot, it does not turn into the wind, but flys into another direction accordingly. Thereafter, only navigational corrections due to a potential crosswind component need to be applied.

Thanks for sharing, will definitely watch when I get back home. :thumbup:

Die K hat mit den Vorgängern auch nur die Form gemeinsam, besteht zum Großteil aus Carbonfaserverstärktem Kunststoff und auch im Inneren ist nicht viel beim Alten geblieben, daher wohl auch ziemlich unmöglich an Infos oder Lizenzen zu kommen. Wenn dürfte es ne E oder was früheres werden, wäre aber auf jeden Fall ein Pflichtkauf ^^