Aircraft Overstressing

Posted:
Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:24 pm
by Rich H
Well, I was flying the Acceleration F/A 18, and I was performing some high G manoeveres, when a warning came up saying aircraft overstressed. I thought the real F/A 18 was designed to be able to do high G manouevers, so how come it came up?
Re: Aircraft Overstressing

Posted:
Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:49 pm
by NitroPower
Ive wondered this as well. its supposed to be a Highly manouverable fighter jet...
Maybe somebody can edit the AIR file and make it so that doesnt max out at say 14 g's

Re: Aircraft Overstressing

Posted:
Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:48 pm
by Anxyous
It's the way Microsoft set the G-effects.
If you go high speed, and pull the stick hard towards you, you can get up to around 30Gs in the sim (I've gotten 50 in an add-on plane).
The FCS in the real F/A-18 automatically limits the G to 9, which still makes it capable of hard turns, but FSX does it differently.
There are lots of other things you can't do as well.
Try getting more that +/- 90 degrees AoA, you can't.
Try going to a really high altitude, stall, and then start rolling. See what happens.
Re: Aircraft Overstressing

Posted:
Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:32 pm
by ual902
Just set setting to Easy.