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C101 Landing test

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Testing the adjusted attitude / CofG changes landing at LEAM (Almeria)  Here is a version with test equipment to monitor what is happening in more detail (LEGR, Granada) No flaps stall is just over 14 degrees alpha, 110 knots Full flaps stall is about 13.5 degrees alpha, 100 knots For comparison, the stock Cessna manages around 8 degrees alpha on landing The stock 737  manages around 10 degrees alpha on landing the latest version is available at https://github.com/John-Bray/C101

Bounciness

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Someone raised an " issue " with my Alouette III. Obviously they considered it to be serious because the question came up " Is there a formal way to file bug report? "  Well, if it needed to be formal then obviously I needed to look into it!  Straight away wasn't worth considering but I did look into it.  First thoughts were: what's the problem? Is that even an issue?  Here was the " Issue ": excessive bounces after crash I had a dynamic roll over on a slop, the craft proceeded to bounce around non-stop, and when it was coming to stop bouncing it would jump again into air. The bounce cycle continued until it "accidentally" landed on skids Seriously?  This is nothing unusual to me - I thought it was just one of those XP things.  It's a flight simulator NOT a crash simulator.  Once you've crashed - who even cares?  It's at times like this that you can begin to doubt yourself though. Maybe if someone has gone to these leng

Perlan II in X-Plane 11

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Been way up high today in the Airbus Perlan Mission II stratospheric glider.  Handles quite well at 60,000 feet. And what a view! Coming down to earth:

Aviojet XP11 released

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latest version is available at https://github.com/John-Bray/C101

Aérospatiale Alouette III released

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Available from the ORG SITE HERE A very old helicopter with over 2,000 produced. Plenty of room for improvement still, but nevertheless probably the best Alouette III for XP11 at the moment. It's open source/GPL so please feel free to do more work on it. Credits: Braddock, brett s, Daikan, David, friwo2, Gerard Robin, John Bray, Josh, Pedro Miguel Calderia, Rosscopeeko, Sérgio Costa, Thorsten Renk, Timi Hietanen Aérospatiale Alouette III on Wikipedia Paint Kit Extra liveries: RNLAF "Grasshoppers" Display team Royal Australian Air Force Romainan Air Force Air Glacierss HB-XOF Air Glacierss HB-ZEQ Swiss Army