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Old 1st Nov 2018, 21:59
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malabo
 
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Careful using any FFS for analyzing technique on this kind of emergency. They are not programmed for it and generally don't have the flight data anyway, so you are working off a programmer's hunch. Years ago the CAE 412 and Flightsafety 412 sims had noticeable differences to tailrotor malfunctions, corrected only after a Canadian Forces 412 that was fully wired for HUMS/FDM suffered a for real tail rotor failure and provided accurate modelling information. Looks like this accident will do the same for the 169 sim.

For all you sim jockeys, have a feel at the yaw difference between knocking the engines off and bottoming the collective. I used to do it old school with the aircraft on 212/412 and there was a substantial difference between the two that was not captured on the sim models. Same with the nose down overpitching.
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