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Old 01-11-2005 | 10:49 AM
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Montague
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Default RE: Landing a taildragger

One thing that G2 gets wrongwrongwrong is rolling friction. Esp on "grass". When you touchdown a taildragger, the friction of the wheels on the ground will tend to nose over the plane. G2 doesn't get that right, so you don't get that nose-over tendancy at all. So, your using down elevator to get an effect that would show up naturally on touchdown. Combine the friction with the downelevator, and over you go.

(you should have seen the landings I was getting with my Waco last weekend. Smooth touchdown, rolling along on the mains, then *spash*-tumble, as the wheels catch a @$#! puddle.)

G2's lack of rolling friction + always-perfectly flat ground + always perfectly aligned gear means that tail dragger take offs are much easier on the sim as well.