Air Turbine Starter Shaft?

[mytai01]

Since I found the NATOPS for this jet, I've been trying to see what works in game. I tried to break the ATS shaft by violating this caution, but found it doesn't matter what I do, it won't break...Is this coming to the game?

 

NATOPS:

CAUTION:

Ensure engine speed is below 30% N2 before actuating the engine crank

switch. Failure to do so may shear the air turbine starter shaft.

[Rainmaker]

May and will are two completely different things...doesnt matter if the odds are 1:10 or 1:10000.

[mytai01]

May and will are two completely different things...doesnt matter if the odds are 1:10 or 1:10000.

 

But, is it modeled?

[Rescue]

Like Rainmaker wrote: may is not will.

 

Also right now you can break G limit with or w/o stores, without taking damage to the Plane, or land on a carrier with 46000 pounds without breaking the landing gear.

 

That's said, I don't think it's modeled right now, but I'm pretty sure this will be in the future.

[Weta43]

Also right now you can (…) land on a carrier with 46000 pounds without breaking the landing gear.

(…) I don't think it's modeled right now

I've heard a few people say that before, but it isn't true.

 

You might have a different idea of how hard you should have to try to break them, but I'd done it before during testing, and after reading your post I went away and tried again.

As my screenshots show, at 42,487 (so 3,500 lb lighter than your suggested 'unbreakable' weight of 46,000 lb) you can break the gear if you land hard.

 

 

 

Ever stood at the bow or stern of a large ship as it sails in rough seas ?

I remember standing near the bow on one of the interisland ferries while crossing the Cook Straight in a storm (about 22,000 ton, so smaller than a carrier, but a reasonable size), and as the bow fell into a trough, my feet would just lift off the ground, and as it lifted up to the top of the next crest, I'd get pushed down into the ground - at 2 G assuming up and down were symmetrical.

 

Lets say the worst weather a pilot would land on the carrier is only half as bad as that - at the bow and stern everything alternates between 0.5 G and 1.5 G.

 

If the stern were rising up like that, and the landing aircraft touched down half way through the rise, a 33,000 lb aircraft effectively weighs 1.5*33,000 = 49,000 lb.

 

If the gear can survive that, then they won't break under a 49,000 lb aircraft landing on a glassy sea either.

Edited February 9, 2019 by Weta43