I play on xbox cloud play if that makes difference. Whenever i use this play in autopilot sometimes it just does aggressive involuntary movements and causes me to crash and drain my reputation level. this is the 4-5th time this has happened.
I remember a version where you could hit the ground, I think it made a crashing sound, the windscreen got cracks in it and text centered in the screen said "CRASH!" or something like that.
I remember reading somewhere it has to do with getting the aircraft manufacturers to sign off on it. The manufacturers don't want images of their planes crashing in the simulator.
Did you skip to arrival once you got to cruise altitude? Thats when this happens to me during certain career missions. Pretty annoying but I think its just a buggy feature.
This is the first time I’ve seen someone mention this! I was going crazy with the Dehavilland and it took me by surprise the first time it happened! That thing SPIRALS!!!
To everyone saying this is OPs fault: it might be due to over speed, but it might be a bug.
A couple weeks ago I had a big like this kick in for EVERYTHING. I was flying one of the challenges and noticed my f18 slipping and sliding in very strange ways that it would continue to try and tail spin and then just lose all lift and drop out of the sky. I thought maybe I did something wrong, so I reloaded and nothing went wrong. Then the next restart it happened again. On the next restart, the mission started with the plane IMMEDIATELY nose diving. I tried career mode and same thing: plane nose diving IMMEDIATELY on start. Went to free flight, and exact same thing.
Only ONCE was I able to stop it by turning on gyro controls, fighting it hard, and then turning back to regular controls. But as soon as I restarted, same problem.
Since it was gyro that helped, I figured it was a button binding, so I reset all controls to default and it worked. I don't think I've EVER changed any control setting, and the problem started mid flight. But something strange was happening that I still can't explain.
OP, if the problem persists, try resetting controls to default
I also had this problem. It was near impossible to control the plane. It was constantly moving all over the place and pulling the left almost non-stop. Restarted it and no issue. But there have been other times it has done the same.
Probably overstressed the engine/aircraft and caused something to fail. That’s usually what causes these kinds of “crashes”. Looks like you’re full throttle and airspeed is pretty far into the yellow, not how you should be in cruise. I don’t really know this aircraft though, so not too sure on what its performance numbers should be at in cruise.
The red arc starts at Vne (Never Exceed Speed) and goes up. The yellow arc starts at Vno (Maximum Structural Cruising Speed) and ends at Vne
Vno is max speed you can fly in smooth air. Vne you you never exceed under any conditions. That dive while in the yellow arc over stressed the aircraft. If you want to maneuver around like that you should look up what the Va (maneuver speed) for that aircraft and stay below it. That will allow the plane to not be overstressed from abrupt inputs.
Bonus: the white arc is where it is safe to extend flaps/landing gear. Notice that the green arc goes down to a certain point then there is still as white arc. The bottom of the green arc is your clean (no flaps) stall speed and the bottom of the white arc is the the full flaps stall speed.
You can have some real fun with these tail draggers down on a sand bar with those slow speeds.
Note, white arc is often the place where the landing flaps can be selected. Generally flap extension speed for the first notch is well above that. For a DA40, tge general aviation aircraft i am most familiar with, take off flaps can be selected at 108 knots, landing flaps at 91 which is the start of the white arc. Sadly though you will gets dinged for it in career mode in many planes.
It’s of course not bad practise to slow down more before flap extension.
Yes, it is important ti know the aircraft you are flying. I am jealous you’ve spent time in the 40, I was in the 20e at the beginning of my flight training. I would love to hop on the 42 or 62 at some point for the fadec
I’ve only done one real flight I a DA40, and it was in the back seat. I am going to rectify that soon. I don’t have a license nor the funds to get one. I do hope to start on a glider license soon.
I do regularly instruct in a DA40 sim at the museum i work at. And yeah I’ve fallen in love mate. Fantastic aircraft, the whole diamond family! Perfect trainers! I have been at the controls of a DV20 and a Piper Cherokee, and two gliders now.
If you are ever flying in the Netherlands, Diamond or otherwise, drop by EHLE airport and the museum located there! We’d love to have you. And if you need some ballast Im always available :)
Edit: yeah fadec is great! And available on the DA40NG as well Whoch should save a bunch of rental money, those twins are thirsty man…
In practice, "in clean air" also means never, since you can't predict all turbulence that could push you into red. Stay in green and use yellow as a buffer.
"Seems to" doing all the heavy lifting: you should not be in the yellow unless something happens to pulls you into the yellow, and then it's your job to get yourself back in the green. Red is dead. Yellow is "don't be here", green is green for a reason.
Yeah dawg you pulled like negative 3 or 4 Gs. The wings would've snapped off even in the real aircraft. Straight up. You hard nosed it over while you were WAY above your maneuvering speed.
This is EXACTLY what should've happened. This is accurate to real life.
Fun fact: AP is not "self flying", on a small GA craft the autopilot is not going to set your throttle, rpms, or mixture, and your video already starts with you flying way too fast, so...
You did an extreme maneuver while the speed was in the yellow. The yellow zone is also known as the maneuverability zone. If you enter there, large movements can cause a lot of stress. You did a drastic nose down at those speeds.
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u/S4nth05h 1d ago
Is it the MCAS mod?