*** Posted by Rapier *** Hi RUN, I hope you dont mind us going on about flight sims and stuff. It might be boring for you I dont know, but try to understand that this is the closest we can get to flying apart from joining the airforce or a flying club. I dont treat flight sim's as a game by the way I try to keep them serious and as true as ...

*** Posted by TIGER *** Hi Rapier The limit of the F16 airframe is in region of 12 Gs . TIGER [Hi Tiger, You are right the overide button is not a G limiter. What I mean is that if you switch the overide on and you pull into a bank as hard as you can I have had the F-16 well over 9.5G's at a pretty fast speed, but not for long. I did ...

*** Posted by TIGER *** I agree with you RUN. It's also my opinion. I have pulled without MPO on 9.5 Gs TIGER [The MPO switch has no effect on positive g's as long as you are not out of control. When held it overrides the negative g limiter & if the AOA is more than 29 degrees (which means that you are out of control), it overrides the ...

*** Posted by RUN *** [Hi Tiger, You are right the overide button is not a G limiter. What I mean is that if you switch the overide on and you pull into a bank as hard as you can I have had the F-16 well over 9.5G's at a pretty fast speed, but not for long. I did this in F4 to test how much G the pilot could take before he blacked out. The ...

*** Posted by RUN *** [Can you tell me how this works? Hi Tiger, I will tell you what I know. Modern jet's use the fly-by-wire system for many reasons, it has a number of advantages. Firstly remember the old planes with levers to control the surfaces, well as planes got faster you needed a stronger arm. Imagine going at Mach 1.5 and pulling ...

*** Posted by Rapier *** [MPO button Hi Rapier You said that the MPO button is a G limiter. Actually this is wrong. Why? The MPO button is used only for restabilish the F16 due an uncontrolled situation. In the real F16 you can't override the limiters I mean you cannot pull more than 9.5 Gs and more than 25' AoA. How MPO works ? In an ...

*** Posted by TIGER *** Hi Rapier As you may know to design a civilian aircraft is very hard in comparision with a fighter. The safety systems, stability, comfort and other things are very hard to master. Boeing 747 is a subsonic plane so that you don't study very advanced aerodinamics and the F16 is a supersonic fighter where the most ...

*** Posted by Rapier *** [Hi Rapier In about 3 years I'll have to choose 2 aircraft(military and civilian) for my project. I picked up already F16 and Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet. TIGER Hi John, let me ask you something. Do you have any questions for me? I'll be very happy if you do. Tiger Tiger, Did you say that you study fluid dynamics and ...

*** Posted by TIGER *** Hi Rapier In about 3 years I'll have to choose 2 aircraft(military and civilian) for my project. I picked up already F16 and Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet. TIGER [Hi John, let me ask you something. Do you have any questions for me? I'll be very happy if you do. Tiger Tiger, Did you say that you study fluid dynamics and ...

*** Posted by TIGER *** MPO button Hi Rapier You said that the MPO button is a G limiter. Actually this is wrong. Why? The MPO button is used only for restabilish the F16 due an uncontrolled situation. In the real F16 you can't override the limiters I mean you cannot pull more than 9.5 Gs and more than 25' AoA. How MPO works ? In an ...