DefaultFace Posted December 24, 2016 Posted December 24, 2016 (edited) According to the manual max speed with the gear extended is 350 km/h. Out of curiosity I was trying to break it today and noticed that it doesn't. Tested all the way up to a 600km/h dive then extended the gear (ie gear up, dive, then extend at 600 km/h) and had no damage. Not a huge issue but might want to be looked at. Edit: ok after another test at 700 km/h now the tailwheel won't raise anymore but mainwheels are still fine. 109G simulator? :P Edited December 24, 2016 by DefaultFace 9./JG27 "If you can't hit anything, it's because you suck. If you get shot down, it's because you suck. You and me, we know we suck, and that makes it ok." - Worst person in all of DCS "In the end, which will never come, we will all be satisifed... we must fight them on forum, we will fight them on reddit..." - Dunravin
9.JG27 DavidRed Posted December 24, 2016 Posted December 24, 2016 :) sounds a little too high without having some severe effects on gear and airframe at such speeds.... iirc though, i think in previous patches a while ago,there was indeed landing gear damage and failure if you dropped it at such insane speeds.
Solty Posted December 24, 2016 Posted December 24, 2016 According to the manual max speed with the gear extended is 350 km/h. Out of curiosity I was trying to break it today and noticed that it doesn't. Tested all the way up to a 600km/h dive then extended the gear (ie gear up, dive, then extend at 600 km/h) and had no damage. Not a huge issue but might want to be looked at. Edit: ok after another test at 700 km/h now the tailwheel won't raise anymore but mainwheels are still fine. 109G simulator? :P LOL. I wonder if it affects all planes. I'll chech my P51 later. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]In 21st century there is only war and ponies. My experience: Jane's attack squadron, IL2 for couple of years, War Thunder and DCS. My channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyAXX9rAX_Sqdc0IKJuv6dA
Anatoli-Kagari9 Posted December 24, 2016 Posted December 24, 2016 It's an area where my good old A2A ww2 fighters do a much better modelling job... I had tested last week with the 109, the 190, 51 and IX, and they all fail miserably to get damaged... Only thing that happens is that the undercarriage "doors" are blown away at some point... Same limitation in IL.2 Battle of... btw.... In A2A aircraft you can get all sorts of damage from this overspeed tests, including asymmetric damage of gear and flaps and other surfaces... In DCS and IL.2 of course control surfaces are also lost under some situations. Flight Simulation is the Virtual Materialization of a Dream...
Retu81 Posted December 24, 2016 Posted December 24, 2016 The limitations in the handbook may not always be due to structural strength. Sometimes the hydraulic system isn't just powerful enough to extend the gear to downlock. Or the drag produced by the gear at high speed could overwhelm the control surfaces leading to loss of control.
DefaultFace Posted December 24, 2016 Author Posted December 24, 2016 Yeah Retu I understand that the limit is with a hefty safety factor included but I cycled it multiple times at high speed and only the tailwheel failed. Landed afterward no problem as well. Track showed no damage in the event list. 9./JG27 "If you can't hit anything, it's because you suck. If you get shot down, it's because you suck. You and me, we know we suck, and that makes it ok." - Worst person in all of DCS "In the end, which will never come, we will all be satisifed... we must fight them on forum, we will fight them on reddit..." - Dunravin
SlipBall Posted December 24, 2016 Posted December 24, 2016 Some od you may remember that hard field landing that I did, which took out the star.strut..so maybe just impacts
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