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Old 3rd December 2002 | 02:11
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CBLong
 
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From: Sandwich, Kent, UK
Hi Eights,

Thanks for the feedback! You should be able to recover it from the stall simply by pitching down (ie pressing and holding the 'A' key) - it won't pitch down by itself because the program currently holds the aircraft at a constant pitch attitude all the time (unless you adjust it manually by pressing 'A' or 'Z'). These screenshots show how it works for me:

(1) Just stalled (pitch attitude is about 7 degrees or so nose-up, the simulation has a max Cl at 12 degrees AoA):



(2) Recovering (press and hold 'A' until you get 45 degrees(!) nose-down):



(3) Once you're flying again, pitch up (press 'Z') to get back to straight and level:


I plan to add properly-simulated pitch-axis rotation in the future - but this 'pitch-hold' version is quite fun to play with too!

Cheers,

cbl.

I forgot to add - to control the power, press the ',' (comma) key to decrease power, and '.' (full stop, or period) to increase power. On a UK keyboard, these keys correspond to the '<' and '>' keys, although you shouldn't press Shift... (it seemed intuitive at the time

cbl.
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