skidding on runway

[tflash]

Strange, I had a mission starting on Senaki airfield that I flew many many times without problems. I didn't fly the Dora for a while, but now I simply am no more able to take off. The plane skids over the runway, and the tailweel doesn't align, it just stays in a cambered position and skids in all directions, as if the runway was very wet or had a thin layer of ice. Anyway take off is no longer possible at all. Did something change or is my muscle memory simply gone over time?

 

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Damn I simply forgot to pull the stick backwards - so it was not my muscle memory, but my brain memory that was at fault :)

Edited August 17, 2018 by tflash

[birdstrike]

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=217672

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=217751

 

probably the same issue...

[tflash]

Yes I saw your post on the Bf-109. I guess indeed the new friction model is at play here. While I can take-off now again in the Dora (I was just doing it wrongly not having flown it for a while), the wheel on ground behaviour I agree with you, it seems not normal to me, it is as if the runway is rather wet or oily.

[Rolds]

It is all the war birds now. I'm unhappy with the change it seems to me to be a significant step in the wrong direction.

[bbrz]

It is all the war birds now. I'm unhappy with the change it seems to me to be a significant step in the wrong direction.

Not all of them. E.g. the TF-51 behaviour during the takeoff, (crabbed) touchdown and landing run is now definitely much more realistic. :)

[msalama]

is now definitely much more realistic

How about the P-51D? Haven't flown her for a while and for various reasons cannot just now so would like to know.