fromTheShadows wrote:
wrote:
Really?

Spin the plane, stall it and put it in a spin... the models are not
full, it won't do a spin.


I'm not a pilot, but there add-on aircraft that according to their
developers will spin. The description for the (free) RealAir Cessna 172
specifically states that "it will side-slip and spin".

Great I'm getting into one of these arguments...

Anyway, the only readily available simulator that can be bought at a
store that simulates aerodynamics "properly" is x-plane, in fact the
engine that is used to simulate the physics of an airfoil does so
completley without using benchmarks of real world aircraft, just their
virtual models, and does it accuratley. X-plane is also endorsed by the
FAA as a PCATD... or something along those lines, I don't remember
exactly what, but it's a lot better (from a physics standpoint) than
Microsoft's release.