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I don't know that full rudder deflection is really a corner case! In fact, the roll orientation of a plane shouldn't affect the effacacy of the rudder so long a
by yock 16y ago
I don't know that full rudder deflection is really a corner case! In fact, the roll orientation of a plane shouldn't affect the effacacy of the rudder so long as the plane isn't in a slip or spin. The whole purpose of a rudder is to correct for a difference in lift between the wings in a bank. If there is no bank, and therefore no difference, the rudder should cause one.
- jrockway 16y agoThe airflow over the wings when stalling is the "corner case". The usual models don't apply; if they used a model that could handle any arbitrary airflow, then the sim would run at 1 frame per hour. So they make some assumptions for normal flight that are easier to calculate, then they make some other special assumptions for stalling, and switch between the models as necessary. I think. But apparently they don't do anything special for spins or uncoordinated turns, so you can't try this in X-Plane and be confident that a real plane would perform well. Anyone have a DC-10 they don't want?