Aircraft Overstressing

[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?

[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

[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.

[ual902]

Just set setting to Easy.