Recovering from high speed dives - control forces...

Anatoli-Kagari9 · August 27, 2014

Reading some ww2 texts I found that pitch got rather heavy on a dive in the Fw190 series. Above 600km/h the forces might imply using the electric driven stab trim.

While I notice a bit of stiffness ( very very light ) in pitch in the Dora, it is perfectly possible to recover by pulling the stick at 800 km/h... Of course sometimes my wings will break apart :-/

Anyway, I believe that, just as is the case with the p51d, we should have some sort of force modelling in the pitch axis, in the form of a pronounced reduction of pitch rate for the same deflection of our controller. It is not absolutely realistic of course, and a realistic force feedback controller would be required, but this approach is probably more plausible than letting us pull the stick, and break the wings apart without having the sensation of force required to do so...

Edited August 27, 2014 by jcomm
Removed unnecessary references to other simulator.

Narushima · August 27, 2014

I agree, controll stiffness is lacking in this sim.

But... let's not pretend that BOS is an accurate study sim and is a good reference on real aircraft behaviour.

Yo-Yo · August 27, 2014

There is no need to implement it for Dora because either pilot's report or German repot tell that there was no problem to maintain 4 g load up to 0.8 M.

THe hinge moment at 0.76M was more than at 0.5 M but not so dramatically. Keeping in mind that Dora considered a very light on controls throughout the whole range of IAS...