Creating Havoc!
Over the past two weeks I concerned myself with rebuilding the A20 series to the new spec, including prop and fuz alterations. I’m happy to report that it flies very well and the feel is great, edging on outstanding, if I do say so myself. The GR2600 engines seem to use a sliding pressure/boost scale, I have seen this before and without the data sheets it’s impossible to get a grip of the boost used and at what alts it was available. I had to order some manuals from the USA to get the engine info I need, these should arrive in the next week and I’ll then be able to quantify the engine spec.
I find most of the ‘Down Wash’ changes we are making work really well on longer tail moment planes, buffs especially well. The new props and the fuz lift and profile changes have totally changed the old feel of sitting on a floaty stick, to one of ‘flying’ in the planes. I have also implemented the flex gun code from the ships into the buffs, I’m itching to see how well this works, because of the success with the ships I expect more of the same.
Stiglr asked me if I would build a G3M FM last week, this was a plane I’d been gathering info on and the timing was right (week off) so I assembled the airframe based on what data we could find. I’m very happy to report it’s an impressive feel. I find no large trim changes needed at any speed and it will take off on it’s own with 4 notches of up and smoothly climb away, easily coping with it’s rated loads at rated power. I have completed the G3M2-22 and the G3M3-23, both feel great and I’m currently just tweaking the weights and powers based on data from FAOTW, Fancillion and TAIC data.
I continue to expand the latest changes into the other aircraft, as soon as I can complete these I’ll release this work onto the server. I’m sure you guys will understand I don’t like to upset balance and so can’t release panes with a performance fix into an arena with mixed performance.
All going well it should take a month or so and we’ll be in business, new web site and all.
