Screenshots WALL : Tack up your pictures!

[capnsully]

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corrr Jason, superb! some great new content recently, sorry I've been distracted so as not to see some of these recent updates!

[capnsully]

that's a great shot Colonel. still gotta get you down into low ground effect tho. seawing limbo contest.. how lo can u go.

for fun, call up the on screen data output for wing drag, ground effect items. and get down and see where the GE effects start taking over. steep reductions in drag, steep increases in lift, and reduction in amount of power necessary to glide along in GE.

that IS a great shot. one of the best skins on it, your graphic settings are to die for.

thanks for these tips Jason, sounds fun in my xbone. oh and great tips for the gamma setting, can't wait to try 2.2 or lower on my pc.

[Herbumus]

can I borrow your avatar?!

LOL. Actually, I feel bad for the guy... he had no idea. Things happen. Hopefully the ordeal won't scare him away... I wish him the best.

Thanks,
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[AADX]

[kiofka]

70 degree aspect, High res shots of the new lighting in the Cirrus Jet.
Low distraction level for night time flying.

[AADX]

since this has taken over this page, here's the link to which plane this is, if anyone is unsure

CirrusTheJet "CTJ" SJ-50 Vision 9X

did up a new cockpit render for the detail page. the night one doesnt do well in the render, the in-sim ones are pretty nice and even here are hard to capture screenshots of exactly how pleasant the night interior is. turn down the lights in your sim room, do a night flight actually at night. The night lighting is very subtle, dramatic in a couple places and should really convey the pleasantness, and modernness of this cockpit. the normal day interior colors have been changed so that it is all based on the same natural tone nut color, away goes the mixed grey color.

(pre-existing detail shot of the CTJ, to put a face to the string of interior pics)

[MdMax]

LJX AOA gauge testing: Stall warning on here.

[aquila1004]

Cherokee 180 in Colombia.


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[AADX]

THAT is a great example of an accelerated stall. ASI is up at 109-110, while it's pulled into a pretty generous angle of attack. The AOA gauge is a fantastic way to watch for stall proximity and how much you're angling into the air before the idiot-light stall light and horn come on. Watching the AOA gauge and flying by it means you will always be inside the envelope and rarely finding a stall you didnt expect.

Here's a couple. CTJ on approach, w/o flaps, just getting too slow, both the analog AOA and the pie graph show how deep the alpha angle is, and you do have to be at stall imminent for the pie to go red, straight and level, just forgetting flaps, getting slow, and the pie goes from green, to yellow, to red, the horns start, while on the analog AOA gauge you can see the alpha angle degree #. In x-plane at least the aoa is relative to the long axis of the fuselage so when flaps are lowered and the wing angle changes it levels out the fuselage angle and the fuse angle / aircraft angle gets more moderate compared to relative wind. The second one is LJX in an ~85° "steep turn" on auto throttle 180kts. holding (as best as possible) 0 vertical rate, +/- 100fpm level turn.. normally tested for PPL is 45°, for commercial is 60° (and even in a 200hp arrow, holding a 60° steep turn requires full power and may and I believe does erode speed). There's a very generous wiki topic on stalls which also covers accelerated stalls. which one example being at 2g (standard plus one more, because life exists at 1g), I think is at the 60° steep turn angle, stall speed # is 1.41x. well specific "g" aside, it's a fascinating concept, and makes an AOA gauge as directly second nature as the vvi itself. The LJX ~80-85° bank angle steep turn, at ~200' agl, 180kts... you can see is pulled into strong backpressure generating an aggressive alpha angle, which at ~170 knots is on the verge of an accelerated stall

"slow flight" stall appearance, level and deepening angle of attack to stall point

"steep turn" ~85° high power, high speed, accelerated stall

[MdMax]

Very cool gauge... the perfect "cheat gauge" for slow flight training. This time I took the Learjet... stall comes when the AOA gauge shows 14 just before the red zone. That gives you some time to increase thrust when needed even with slow reacting engines. So it's easy to avoid the stall or losing height. Here I'm stable at 7500ft. It's fun to fly this business jet at that speed.

Edit: just to add a nice link about this. http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/in ... ticle=5318