IskenderWang / 787-family

787 family for FlightGear, after merging legoboyvdlp's abandoned -9 with the FGAddon -8
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Unstable aircraft #95

Closed erwan-gg closed 1 year ago

erwan-gg commented 1 year ago

The plane is not stable in manual piloting.It's difficult for landings the plane tends to nose dive a lot maybe you need a trim tab.

nico-castell commented 1 year ago

Hi! Landing with this plane is difficult because of the way the ground effect is simulated.

I've been working on a fix in the ground-effect branch in my fork. However, it's basically impossible to find real world data on the 787's ground effect.

sriemmanuel787 commented 1 year ago

What exactly do you mean by 'ground effect'? Like how the aircraft moves when taxiing?

nico-castell commented 1 year ago

Ground Effect is the name given to the positive influence on the lifting characteristics of the horizontal surfaces of an aircraft wing when it is close to the ground.

Here's an article