While what you’re saying is correct, marsman20208043 has a point. The aircraft most likely should not be able to maintain straight and leveled flight, below stall speed, and with an angle of attack that low.
As you said in your follow-up response, in order to maintain straight and leveled flight, AOA has to increase up to the point of airflow separation over the wings.
Have you actually tested the new update? This particular video might not depict the issue all that well but it’s certainly there, in terms of lift too. I was able to get the TBM in the air with full flaps, at around 30-35kt IAS.
Not saying anything like that would ever be attempted in real life, but I highly doubt you’d be able to lift off at 35kt
Edit: also, reaching high enough AOA to maintain straight and leveled flight around stall speed would dramatically increase induced drag, dropping the speed quick enough to induce separation almost right away
If you are able to fly a 1g stall down to 30-35 kts then the flight dynamics are indeed bonkers. I’m not saying it is correct, all I’m saying is that the stall speed is lower in ground effect, so depending on the weight flying at 50 kts might be possible in ground effect but not without deliberately keeping it of the ground obviously with a lot of backpressure, it shouldn’t keep flying straight and level all by itself.
The problem might be in the pitching moments and lack of drag rather than the stall characteristics themselves. But considering your observation there definitely is something wrong.
I don’t really agree with that, but I do think that this update is positive. They need to implement the config tweaks though, if that’s the problem. They can’t force users to modify it though (and they won’t).
For the sake of
all modders. Asobo need to comment on what they plan to do with this mess. Otherwise modders will invest hours of improvements just to have to revert back or do another fix after action from Asobo. This should at least be Asobo’s courtesy to all the folks that keep this sim worthwhile.
Technically I can stall an aircraft at any speed due to the critical angle of attack bring exceeded (unless over Va of course where we will bend/break something first), but this is a good basic explainer for non-pilots.
I see what you mean.
My point is, I was able to lift off at 35kt, not fly into a stall at that speed. Falling is different than going upwards.
Also, when you talk about back pressure, we have to keep in mind that the back pressure is required to generate enough of a pitch moment on the aircraft to maintain wing AOA, rather than actually have anything to do with lift. Lift is still only dependent on the wings and flap configuration. With a back enough cg you surely wouldn’t need any back pressure, but because the wings are about half way through and there’s a big and heavy turbine engine in the front, it’s safe to assume the aircraft will want to pitch down sharply at power idle and with only the PIC on board, even at speeds where the wings would be able to generate enough lift with necessary AOA. Hope that makes at least some sense.
Sideslips are intentionally creating drag to lose both speed and altitude. We use them frequently in gliders, though they do also apply to powered aircraft.
To enter a slip, use a bunch of rudder one direction while banking the other (for example, right rudder with a left bank). Ideally, you’d end up flying straight but with the nose pointed to right or left.
