Post by CoolP on May 31st, 2011 at 9:36am
You name it, the current weather seems more like a fun experience since all sim pilots (including me) are really happy about some lightning and heavy clouds while the biggest problem there is to catch that ILS.
I've cranked up some sliders and also enabled random turbulences and stuff, but I still have a relative smooth ride in the worst weather imaginable so far.
The only hazard with those "turbulent" weather settings is a disconnecting AP in cruise since the wind change from one weather cell to the next one isn't always smoothed out then.
If you enable the smoothing there, the ride gets even more boring.
Yes, there are some planes around were e. g. "Windshear!" comes up as a warning, but while the real pilot will go-around then, I'm just going to land. ;D Not that real, huh? (I sometimes go-around then, using TOGA, just to make it more realistic for me and the ATC guy)
So I'm hoping for some even more advanced weather addons or a completely new system in "Flight", kicking the simmers a.. in some conditions.
This one for example won't be fun for any real pilot, it actually took quite some lives there.
A BOAC Canadair C-4 (G-ALHE), Kano Airport - 24 June 1956.
A MALÉV Ilyushin Il-18 (HA-MOC), Copenhagen Airport – 28 August 1971.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 Boeing 727-225(N8845E), John F. Kennedy International Airport – 24 June 1975[8]
Pan Am Flight 759 Boeing 727-235 (N4737), New Orleans International Airport – 9 July 1982[8]
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (N726DA), Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport – 2 August 1985[8]
Martinair Flight 495 McDonnell Douglas DC-10 (PH-MBN), Faro Airport – 21 December 1992[9]
USAir Flight 1016 Douglas DC-9 (N954VJ), Charlotte/Douglas International Airport – 2 July 1994
Goodyear Blimp GZ-20A (N1A, "Stars and Stripes"), Coral Springs, Florida – 16 June 2005
How would the plane behave there?
First, it gets sucked in (that should be the stage were plane sensors can spot a fast pressure/direction change and therefore trigger a warning), so maybe it accelerates, then the downforce of the actual airstream should come into play.
So getting out there fast reduces the time it affects you and also enhances the stability of the plane since fast means more stable and also more effective rudder/aileron authority and more available lift from the wings, counteracting the downforce.
But the structural load will increase then since all counteracting will always fight the actual load from the air itself.
If you are in full landing config there, you are not stable, not fast and very vulnerable, right? Also, getting back to "more stable" takes time because of the high drag and all the devices which have to be retracted.
I think that this situation will be another one of those 'this is why they get the big money' things since the right decision and timely operation saves lives there, or takes them if not fulfilled.
Can you spot those things with a modern radar?
I've cranked up some sliders and also enabled random turbulences and stuff, but I still have a relative smooth ride in the worst weather imaginable so far.
The only hazard with those "turbulent" weather settings is a disconnecting AP in cruise since the wind change from one weather cell to the next one isn't always smoothed out then.
If you enable the smoothing there, the ride gets even more boring.
Yes, there are some planes around were e. g. "Windshear!" comes up as a warning, but while the real pilot will go-around then, I'm just going to land. ;D Not that real, huh? (I sometimes go-around then, using TOGA, just to make it more realistic for me and the ATC guy)
So I'm hoping for some even more advanced weather addons or a completely new system in "Flight", kicking the simmers a.. in some conditions.
This one for example won't be fun for any real pilot, it actually took quite some lives there.
A BOAC Canadair C-4 (G-ALHE), Kano Airport - 24 June 1956.
A MALÉV Ilyushin Il-18 (HA-MOC), Copenhagen Airport – 28 August 1971.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 Boeing 727-225(N8845E), John F. Kennedy International Airport – 24 June 1975[8]
Pan Am Flight 759 Boeing 727-235 (N4737), New Orleans International Airport – 9 July 1982[8]
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (N726DA), Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport – 2 August 1985[8]
Martinair Flight 495 McDonnell Douglas DC-10 (PH-MBN), Faro Airport – 21 December 1992[9]
USAir Flight 1016 Douglas DC-9 (N954VJ), Charlotte/Douglas International Airport – 2 July 1994
Goodyear Blimp GZ-20A (N1A, "Stars and Stripes"), Coral Springs, Florida – 16 June 2005
How would the plane behave there?
First, it gets sucked in (that should be the stage were plane sensors can spot a fast pressure/direction change and therefore trigger a warning), so maybe it accelerates, then the downforce of the actual airstream should come into play.
So getting out there fast reduces the time it affects you and also enhances the stability of the plane since fast means more stable and also more effective rudder/aileron authority and more available lift from the wings, counteracting the downforce.
But the structural load will increase then since all counteracting will always fight the actual load from the air itself.
If you are in full landing config there, you are not stable, not fast and very vulnerable, right? Also, getting back to "more stable" takes time because of the high drag and all the devices which have to be retracted.
I think that this situation will be another one of those 'this is why they get the big money' things since the right decision and timely operation saves lives there, or takes them if not fulfilled.
Can you spot those things with a modern radar?