The good news is that if you lose either rudder or elevators, the other can be used to perform the same function...just tilt the wings. Like when you are in a tight turn with wings almost perpendicular to the ground...your rudder is acting like an elevator relative to the ground.
Now, when you lose both, you have serious trouble. I have never successfully landed a virtual single engine plane after losing both rudder and elevators. I'm sure others can and have, but I have never been able to get the power balance right without nose diving lol. Twin engine planes give a little more control with differential thrust but my success in landing isn't even 50% even then.
My last mission in a Pacific campaign ended with a successful (relative term) carrier landing with no vertical stabilizer and only one elevator. Without that little but of elevator control, I would have been going for a swim lol.
Splitter
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12-22-2010, 03:28 PM
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