Rise Of Flight

[Ming EAF19]

It's all true Puff

It's the left-turn that's the tricky one Chris, you need to dig the nose in before starting the turn or the Camel will try to zoom up, that must have killed a few rookies

The right-hand turn seems ok for me, I suppose one needs to point the plane up before starting a right-hander to compensate for the engine's angular momentum/gyroscopic precession again - or the plane will take a nose dive and I know that initiating the right-hand turn too soon after takeoff definitely killed many pilots in training

We'll sort all this stuff out when we're (small) mob-handed on comms. I know I could do with some basic flight instruction especially engine management, I'm only flying with auto-engine management - it'll probably take us half an hour to get into the air - engine stuff's so fascinating

Have a look at the movie over there Chris demonstrating how a rotary engine means that sometimes the plane moves in ways that are not what you'd expect, because of this gyroscope wanting to fight against our outside interference. Gyroscopes are for maintaining stability (V2 and so on) in my book- but one finds that they don't like to be messed around with. But it makes the plane unpredictable and the opposite of the 'on rails' FM, I mention no names Aces High

Ah found it for you- http://riseofflight.com/forum/viewto...1&hilit=rotary - page 2 especially with the mysterious case, scale it (the mass of the rotor) up to 100kg then climb on see what happens, I'm thinking bucking bronco

Ming

[EAF602_Puff]

Requeim has also made some fantastic movies ...check out all the stuff here, really nice tutorials

http://www.youtube.com/user/Requiem10NS#p/p