Mxsmanic
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Posted on:
Nov 3, 2007, 12:53 PM
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Iain Smith writes:
> This is why it's such a mystery to me. Nothing has changed that would
> affect it. It's as if the AP is an actual piece of hardware that has
> failed rather than being a software simulation! 
Maybe it's a simulation of an AP hardware failure.
I've been surprised by my add-on aircraft more than once. I once was doing
some touch-and-go operations in my Baron 58, a payware add-on from Dreamfleet,
and after a few of them I noticed that the aircraft was rolling strongly to
the left. I checked and rechecked everything trying to find out what I could
be doing to cause it, with no luck. Finally I noticed that if I retracted the
flaps, the aircraft stopped rolling. I decided to land and figure things out.
Ultimately I discovered that there was nothing wrong with the sim--on the
contrary, it had accurately simulated damage to one of the flaps from an
unusually hard touchdown. When the flap was extended, the one on the right
was just about half an inch lower than the one on the left, and that was
enough to make the plane want to roll. The sim designers had gone to the
trouble of simulating even minor damage like that. I was quite impressed!
Fortunately, I didn't have to spend thousands of dollars to fix it. Reloading
a fresh copy of the aircraft fixed the flaps. At least with this aircraft,
things break just as in real life, if you're careless.
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