Learn to fly the S.E.5a

[@jabuck8562]

My great-grandfather flew in a S.E.5 so it's very interesting to see a virtual representation of what he was doing and looking at over 100 years ago!

[@RequiemsACTL]

That's awesome!

[@Simon_Nonymous]

Another useful hit! I needed to know how to work the Foster mount, and you showed me! Got it keyed in now for zero deflection shooteringo!

[@warnerjohnson1338]

Great patter for a flying instructor! Well done, Lad.

[@RequiemsACTL]

Cheers Warner! :-)

[@DwarfElvishDiplomacy]

You might know these from : Getting killed by it in MP because they zoomed down on you like an angry Eagle out of nowhere or : Watching your teamates crashlanding it because their engine started burning

[@TheRaptorXX]

I've been waiting for this beastie for ages... finally... FINALLY!! Thank YOU as ever, my Antipodean friend!!

[@josho2153]

I start every new aircraft with your tutorials. Thanks! For this one, you lost me at "step away from the bubble for coordinated flight." Wha?

[@RequiemsACTL]

It's because it's an inclonometer and not a slip/skid indicator as we know it today. Try and think of the physics involved in a slip or skid, and how they would push the fluid around (hence the bubble movement) and it makes more sense

[@tankermottind]

Unfortunately Requiem is not quite correct here, the bubble *is* a slip indicator, the same as one would find on a WWII bird or steam gauge GA plane but without the inclinometer/bank indicator that said slip indicator is normally paired with. The bubble in the slip indicator shows the degree and direction of slip, and you want to put in rudder in the *opposite* direction from which the bubble is deviated. So if the bubble is to the left, you want right rudder, and vice versa, to keep the bubble centered, just as if you were flying a Cessna or a WWII bird. If the bubble is right in the middle, then your plane is coordinated. The German planes in FC are the opposite--they have a (very shitty) inclinometer/bank indicator, but no slip indicator.

[@ryansta]

No no no no, all wrong. You shout to the good chappies from the hanger, :- 'Contact Old man and would you mind terribly pulling those chocks away please ? Oh, and get my Batman to make a plate of cucumber sandwiches, a hot toddy and a pot of hot tea and maybe some of Mrs Dowburys sponge she sent Sniffy, for when we're back from giving the Hun a bloody nose'.

[@ComdrStew]

Is Flying Circus out?

[@RequiemsACTL]

It's still early acces so they're releasing airplanes but we haven't seen the map yet