How did you decide on the profiles, Russ?

FaxCap · Post by **FaxCap** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 8:19 am

Hi Russ

Did you just fly many aircraft with many different profile set-ups until
you thought they felt "right"?

The reason I ask is I downloaded Tanaka's new P-51 and I don't really
know what profile I prefer. The Military fighter almost feels like it's
meant for jets only. Right now I have it set for Medium GA. Not too
sure about that either.

As a side note, Tanaka's P-51 is one of the BEST modelling jobs I have
ever seen! The dynamic shine is incredible. A modern radio stack and
GPS are tucked away as pop-ups for those long flights.

Oh yes, the P-51 is FREE! Got it off AvSim the other day.

FaxCap

Post by **RussDirks** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 1:26 pm

Yeah, I just kind of took a guess at how I thought it would feel to fly the various aircraft. Of course it's all my own personal opinion, and people are free to modify the profiles as much as they want, or create their own. I just generally made the controls stiffer and stiffer as the aircraft got heavier.

As far as fighter jets, I read an interesting story once where a journalist got to fly in a modern fighter jet, and if I understood him correctly, he described the stick as responding not so much to movement as to pressure. So in other words the stick was really stiff, and it was the amount of pressure you put on the stick, as opposed to how far you moved it, that determined how much the actual flight controls moved. Now like I said, that was just the impression I got from the article ... he didn't go into a lot of detail on it. But that's why I made the fighter jet controls so hard.

FaxCap · Post by **FaxCap** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 11:17 pm

I have also read articles along the same line. I think it was an F-16 jockey
who said something about you basically "think" about a turn and the small
movement your had makes is enough to start the turn.

I got to fly CP's 767-300ER flight simulator at YVR about 5 years ago.
Got it for my birthday!

I was supposed to get 1 hour but ended up
getting closer to 3 hours. One thing I noticed immediately was how easy
the 767 was to fly. Small, smooth movements on the yoke was all it took.

I basically grew up at Delta Airpark, Russ....back in the early 1960's.
To me all controls are stiff and chunky because all I ever flew were things
like Aeronca Champs, J3's and a homebuilt.

By the way, the graphics on M$ FS2004 blow the doors off the $10 million
767 flight simulator! The runways were well done because that's what
was important. Also major landmarks were good, ie Alex Fraser bridge
but the rest was barely FS2000 at best.

FaxCap

FaxCap · Post by **FaxCap** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 11:24 pm

Russ, what profile would you use for a large twin prop? Heavier than a
DC-3? Twin Turbo?

How about a DC-6 four engine prop?

FaxCap

Post by **RussDirks** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 3:07 am

I would maybe use the Medium Jet, or just create a new profile for that particular class of aircraft, like Heavy Prop or something.

FaxCap · Post by **FaxCap** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 5:24 am

With any luck after FS Force is released people will post their profiles
here. Especially real world pilots of these aircraft! You should get some
great feedback from the DC3 crowd!

I know there is a real world AB330/340 pilot posting on the Phoenix
forums.

FaxCap