More aircraft dorkiness

[Forboding Angel]

WHy in the world does acceleration rate not conincide with brakerate? THat's just dumb. Meh anyways, that's not what this is about...


THis is about the fact that ALL aircraft decend and the same static speed. Please, for the love of god, can we have an FBI tag that allows us to control the rate of decent and ascent? Pretty Please?

[Soulless1]

WHy in the world does acceleration rate not conincide with brakerate? THat's just dumb.

If i had to guess, I'd probably lean towards 'because aircraft have huge jet engines on the back and only airbrakes to slow them down'

[LordMatt]

With some jets you can reverse the air flow direction coming out the back and slow down with that too (IIRC the 727 had this).

[imbaczek]

Well that still doesn't give you thrust which would be anywhere near it's value achieved when pointed in the proper direction.

[rattle]

I thought a lot of military aircraft had reverse thrusters.

There was an experimental supersonic jetplane (something russian IIRC) which could decelerate to zero in mid air almost instantly, it was unmanned though because the upcoming G-forces would have broken the pilot's neck.

[Soulless1]

it's entirely possible to do that with proper vectored thrust, but then you basically have what TA would call a gunship - it's not really quite the same of course, but spring would probably model it as one.