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Old 03-05-10, 12:34 PM   #78
Schroeder
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Are you guys serious?
The thing doesn't have any physics at all. After reaching take off speed you can pull the stick all the way back to it's max in a split second. No stall, no shaking, no feedback whatsoever. If you fly a plane too slow the lift creating airflow over the wings WILL rip off at some point (I've had to do it twice so far in my pilot training). First you get the shaking (That's when the airflow is close to rip of. It creates turbulences that hit the elevator and that's when you get the shaking "feedback" straight at your control stick. Should actually work with every plane.). If you get a bit slower the nose will drop without further warning as if someone had removed your wings in a split second (motorised planes might now tend to spin because of the engine torque and prop wash effects the airflow usually collapses at one wing faster than on the other) and there is nothing you can do with your elevator to stop it from doing so. After regaining speed the plane becomes controllable again.

The swordfish doesn't have any of the above mentioned characteristics.
It flies like playing in an ancient flight game but not as if playing a simulation.
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