Better Damaged Model Planned?

[DCS FIGHTER PILOT]

Just wondering if the damage model on the tomcat is finished or if more work is to be planned. It seems that right now it’s a bit erratic especially when one of the wings gets blown off. The aircraft spirals out of control like a mad man.

[GunSlingerAUS]

I'm guessing it's more of a DCS issue in general than an F14 issue, given how lovingly everything else is modelled.

[Snappy]

Just wondering if the damage model on the tomcat is finished or if more work is to be planned. It seems that right now it’s a bit erratic especially when one of the wings gets blown off. The aircraft spirals out of control like a mad man.

 

Not sure what you mean .What do you expect to happen when the wing on one side gets blown off completely? Aircraft continues in a controlled state of flight?

 

I don‘t think so and yes I know about the israeli F-15 that lost one wing in a collision and landed, but if you read up on that , you‘ll find that it initially went in a very tight spiral dive , plus the F-15 wing is of a different shape.

Guess it depends on how much wing area is missing, there are photos of a Tomcat missing half its wing and still flying, but whole wing gone?Not sure if controlled flight is possible in that state..

 

 

Regards,

 

Snappy

Edited June 20, 2020 by Snappy

[IronMike]

I've landed the F-14 on one wing couple times now, but that said, yes the external damage model is still work in progress. We pride ourselves of having a very exact internal damage model (systems, subsystems, etc) or the effect of what happens when you get hit, but the external damage model still needs some love. The death spin happens when everything is lost, and is in place of a "dead airplane fm", which tbh is probably too much to create faithfully. It would be probably way, way more complicated than the actual FM, simply because of the many different, almost "unlimited" airframe shapes you would have to deal with, depending on what you lose when hit. So would it fall like a leaf, or spin, or tumble etc... Just not possible to make realistic FMs for that the same way as we do the normal FM. But adding a bit of a randomized behavior, etc, I think is something we might look in to. In the end, we are talking here about different versions of "falling out of the sky". When the death spin happens, this is what would happen anyway. Else, if the damage is any minor, you will be able to still fly, even missing half a wing, stabilizers, etc - which ofc then is recreated faithfully and part of the FM. I hope that makes sense. Maybe let me try and put it more simply: it makes sense for us to faithfully recreate the "flying part", it makes less sense to put the same effort into the "falling part".

Edited June 21, 2020 by IronMike