Were do you test your a/c?

[ashaman]

...If it's one of Kazunori Ito's aeroplanes, you can't even be sure whether it's a piston or a jet...

It's indeed the worse of Ito's shortcoming, the flight dynamics. Surely nice models, but they do not fly at all like the plane they represent.

[Conan Edogawa]

*cough* like PoSky 737... *whistle*

[microlight]

For testing airliners: I take off from London Gatwick with no pax and with <50% fuel (apart from the short flight, this is good for assessing take-off performance, as some FDs have the plane lifting off by itself way before Vr).

Then I do an emergency rapid descent by climbing to around 20,000 feet, reducing the speed to around 200kts. Then disengage the autopilot/autothrottle, cut the throttle to idle, put the flaps out all the way and lower the landing gear, which allows the plane to descend at its fastest sink rate. This is I think a real-world test and stresses the aircraft balance and drag characteristics. (The plane may initially go alarmingly nose down but then should recover to a stable descent at about 20-30 degrees.)

Then pull out, and make for touchdown at Heathrow. If it does these, the FD is probably reasonable.

[Fozzer]

As a California flyer...

For all my General Aviation aeroplanes I use Q99 airfield, South County, in Santa Clara County, Silicon Valley, for all my trials.
It's a quiet area, free of obstructions, and reasonably flat.

I've also populated the airfield with my own scenery objects... ...!

Paul... 8-)...!

[ashaman]

*cough* like PoSky 737... *whistle*

As already stated elsewhere, even before I started going on the actual single prop streak I find myself enjoying lately, it's more than a year that I've not flown with the Boeing series "3", preferring to it the DC9 series 80 and 90 from SGA (though Moach 737 is quite good and comes with an Alitalia fictitious livery too), so I really wouldn't know about POSKY's "3" downsides.


The "3" is simply not my plane in a general term. :exclamation


Yet in the case of a 737 is quite easy to find substitutive flight dynamics around. So what if POSKY's dynamics aren't really good? Swap the files, being attentive in maintaining the old contact points, lights and effects displacing, and good flight.


A little more complex is instead to find already compiled alternate and better flight dynamics for some of the more... exotic, shall we say, of Ito's planes. :-/

[microlight]

Well said - it's exactly what I do. (All my 737s have the Experience dynamics.)

[Conan Edogawa]

...is it really that simple??

I'm stupid...

[Formula_1]

Hi all

For very small planes I often use Wade Brown's field 6NC4.

Big props and small jets I use Hickory Regional Airport, KHKY.

For large planes I use Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, KCLT.

[pepper_airborne]

I use TIST as my homebase, with the SRTM mesh from Simv.

It looks great, and has all sorts of posssible flights, from ILS practice, to VFR flying across small pieces of ocean. I once crossed the ocean in a B206 to TIST, wich isnt a recommended thing to do in a chopper .

[rootbeer]

I don't know how to design, but I have a ton of fun doing go-rounds on Ascension Island. Try it. It's very easy to find the strip out there on your return leg...

[an-225]

Hmmm...nothing beats KEDW. Well I have a few test airports. Some of them:

1. KEDW. NOTHING beats this. Great fun to fly civil aircraft to/from and also an accurate place for military aircraft.

2. YSSY. Lots of runways and a short flight from here to Bankstown or RAAF Richmond. Great for ILS practice and nice scenery.

3. Area 51. Big runway. Flat and lots of mountains to play in.

4. KBFI. Nothing beats watching a B-29 or B-52 roar off down Boeing Field.

5. Gibraltar AB. Great fun to make low passes over the Gibraltar Rock in either an RAF C-130 OR an RAF Nimrod MR.2.

6. Oxford, Kidlington. I usually bring light civil or British military aircraft and I buzz aircraft on approach to Heathrow.

7. UUDD. Testing Russian heavy metal.

[PlutonianEmpire]

*cough* like PoSky 737... *whistle*

As already stated elsewhere, even before I started going on the actual single prop streak I find myself enjoying lately, it's more than a year that I've not flown with the Boeing series "3", preferring to it the DC9 series 80 and 90 from SGA (though Moach 737 is quite good and comes with an Alitalia fictitious livery too), so I really wouldn't know about POSKY's "3" downsides.


The "3" is simply not my plane in a general term. :exclamation


Yet in the case of a 737 is quite easy to find substitutive flight dynamics around. So what if POSKY's dynamics aren't really good? Swap the files, being attentive in maintaining the old contact points, lights and effects displacing, and good flight.


A little more complex is instead to find already compiled alternate and better flight dynamics for some of the more... exotic, shall we say, of Ito's planes. :-/

Is POSKY's flight dynamics terrible for all of it's aircraft, or just their 737's?

[ashaman]

Well, I can speak only of the planes form POSKY I use.

Well, the various regular 747 form POSKY behave well, though they have a marked nose-up attitude at landing speeds.

The 747sp behaves nicely enough, though shares the same nose-up attitude than its bigger sisters.

The 763 is perhaps a little more sluggish in answering to the yoke's commands than what one can expect from that kind of plane, but behaves nicely.

The various 737, I haven't tried.

That's all folks.

[Conan Edogawa]

747: Except the bug, that you can't get off the runway before 195 kts it's generally okay. **

737: Total crap. On approach your nose points down and you can't roll as fast as a real 737.

**If you can't look over the panel during approach and landing and don't want to press "W", press Shift+Return (Enter).

[pepper_airborne]

Yes, and there CRj 600 doesnt seems to like decending.