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Old 01-12-2012, 01:40 AM
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Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow View Post
So, summa summarum, it is a darn complicated story.
Agree. But I feel that for someone who does not understand the basics of flight performance, it is disingenuous at best to explain something to them in terms of the pseudo-property "e liability".

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My guess is that no flight sim ever gets so deep into detail to really come up with a good set of data. I think all flight sim FMs are based on some parameters and tweeks to fit quantitave and some qualitative criteria for each plane and hoping that for other qualitative criteria the outcome is ok.
Also agree. There are a lot of 2nd-order differential equations in aerodynamics that are not efficient to solve in real-time, esp. on consumer-level hardware.
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