Hello friends A few questions on real aviation from a virtual pilot that loves vintage planes:
1)Wich are the main aircrafts with piston engines that have this gadget?2) Are there any fsmodel of it? 3)If a pilot has to descent quickly in that "big wings" planes are flaps sufficient ?.Those designs were easy to take off but hard to descend in my humble fs experience and the use of prop-r in turboprops is very usefull Thanks and regards.pd look the boeing 247,the dove,the dc3etc. ???
Don't know how many FS models have working reverse pitch, but I do know that in the old prop transports, that was only used to reduce speed in flight in the most dire emergencies... generally, even in an emergency, power would be reduced, a circling approach would be used, and gear and flaps would be lowered ASAP.
Never heard of modern turboprops using negative pitch in flight, but I suppose it's possible.
There is a freeware B377 that has working "reverse thrust", but it's not supposed to be used in flight, just like on a jet with thrust buckets... it's used only to slow down after all the wheels are touching the runway, and even then only below a certain IAS.
There's no reason why normal approaches in a big multi prop should be difficult in terms of descending- sounds like you're just not throttling back early enough, or you're pitched down too much on final and not letting the airspeed bleed off. If you pull the power out and just hold the nose where it is, the plane will eventually begin to sink. You're better off then using a bit of power to control descent rate instead of changing your pitch angle.
It took me a while to get used to the FS9 DC3, but once you figure out how soon to set up for approach and religiously stay below 90 kts on final, it's easy to avoid overshooting.
