What is "aircraft stability" - IN VIDEO

[Kurfürst]

Excellent find, and simply understand!

Thanks!

[Crumpp]

i could learn to fly with that, if my stick didnt have a center spring

Relaxed stability aircraft have artificial means to impart feel for the pilot like a center spring.

Would not be any different with your desktop joystick dealing with the instability of the early mark Spitfires.

You would have an advantage the real pilots did not have but it would much more realistic than having a FM that is static and dynamically stable.

[macro]

Dont think thid will be done tbh crump. They cant even get the speed and engine boosts (i.e the simple stuff) right in the model let alone more complex stuff like this. Will have to wait for sdk when you can do it yourself mate

[Crumpp]

They cant even get the speed and engine boosts

Sure they can get it right. They already have the relative performance correct and it is the best simulation of WWII combat piloting to date.

What makes you think they can't get this right too?

In fact, I think they have been looking like most of us, for the characteristics that made these aircraft equal dogfighters.

You won't find it just looking at raw performance numbers.

[Igo kyu]

Dogfights mostly didn't result in a victory.

In a dogfight, most of the time, both pilots escape with their aircraft.

Which is why most victories come from surprise.

Which is why it didn't really matter that the bf109 was a useless dogfighter.

[Crumpp]

What are you fishing??

[JtD]

Capoeira has poor longitudinal static stability? Taken from the "Never back down" documentary, it must be true.

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

Which is why it didn't really matter that the bf109 was a useless dogfighter.

I think the truth of this statement depends greatly on which aircraft you're comparing it to, and the precise definition of "dogfighter".

[JtD]

I don't think it depends on anything, it's just wrong.

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles

I think the truth of this statement depends greatly on which aircraft you're comparing it to, and the precise definition of "dogfighter".

Of course it's relative, all warplane performance is relative to other concurrent warplanes.

The German for "fighter" in WW2 was "Jager", but if you translate that back, it comes out "hunter". For the Germans at the time, hunting was stalking big game with a rifle, not the British style of hunting which involved chasing foxes with hounds.

It's a different attitude, and a different style, and the bf 109 fitted the style.