VTOL VR: Testing the Air, Part 2 (stall speeds of the AV-42C)
0- This video is comparing the stall characteristics of two AV-42C planes with very different loadout masses and TWRs.
- The audio is divided by stereo channels. Try headphones!
- The clicks you hear while recovering from a stall are me retracting flaps and gear. I found it was easier/safer to retract flaps early on the heavy plane.
- I apologize for the misaligned frames. It drives me nuts, too, trust me. That cockpit Camcorder is very hard to handle.
- I'm also sorry-not-sorry for the weird black rectangle during the transitions. I'm new to Vegas and it took all of today's patience just to get the frames to appear on their respective sides of the screen. I wasn't going to push for a second miracle in a single day. Vegas UI is maddeningly unintuitive.
- I was planning to synchronize the videos on the planes descending through a given airspeed, but different configurations soon made that impossible. So I settled for sync'ing them on the throttle cutoff, even though they started from different speeds. I do not think the results suffer from this.
- As you observed in the video, a stall warning was not always present, especially not for the heavy plane. Therefore, I decided to consider a fully developed stall the point at which the aircraft's vertical speed passed through -1,000 feet per minute, hence the white arrows that appear next to that number.
- The TWRs (Thrust to Weight Ratio) of the planes were the maximum and minimum they could be, respectively, for this model of aircraft. I put fuel as low as it could go for the left plane. (Infinite fuel was used for both flights.)
- In case you were wondering, yes, all pilot assistance systems were active during these tests.
- Thing that impressed me, #1: This model of aircraft is very capable of recovering from stalls simply by applying throttle. I wish it was that easy in real life.
- Thing that impressed me, #2: The momentum of the heavy plane gives it a lot of kinetic stability, at least at first. Stalls take much longer to develop but, once they are in progress, the plummet to Earth is astonishing.
- Filmed in Game version 1.6.
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