Potentially serious FM/DM issue

[Bricks]

Completely unrealistic, indeed.

Like this obvious fake:

[Strike]

Originally Posted by Bricks

Completely unrealistic, indeed.

Like this obvious fake:

Actually, this looks like a crashlanding where perhaps the LH MLG has not collapsed or the skidding has flattened the fuselage so much it's not perfectly circular anymore and rests on the "flat" area instead of rolling over. Seeing that we cannot see wether gear is extended or not, we have no conclusion yet, but you make a good point.......

... which we must prove to be blasphemy! :p

[TheGrunch]

I seem to recall that we were told that the centre of mass changes depending on fuel flow (obviating issues like the nasty P-51s in IL-2). Perhaps this was ignored because it only affects terminally damaged aircraft. Ought to affect aircraft that have only lost wing-tips and ailerons and rudders, though, ideally.

[Rodolphe]

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Originally Posted by Strike

Actually, this looks like a crashlanding where perhaps the LH MLG has not collapsed

The airplane, an ATR-42-320, came down 300 feet short of the threshold runway 17R at Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, TX.


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[Strike]

Originally Posted by Rodolphe

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Perfect! There you go, thanks.. The MLG wheel is offset, leaving the majority of weight (fuselage) on the right side of the wheel, and the wing (which is obviously lighter than the fuselage) on the left side of the wheel. To tip over, the torque applied from the wing gravity must be greater than that of the entire plane body and is why it hasn't tipped over. My conclusion..

But this is getting off relevance to the initial post..

IL-2 CoD has simplified physics, and you know it

[winny]

The fuselage weighs a lot more than the wings. I think thats the reason for these wing up pics (RL and CoD).

Think of it as looking at a beached yacht.. all the weight is at the bottom, the wing would have generated some lift right up until the point the aircraft stopped moving too which may account for why the plane came to rest there like that (I'm ignoring the fact that it's not 'real' btw).