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IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010)

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157 points smig0 | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 12:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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HanClinto ◴[21 Oct 24 15:07 UTC] No.41905010[source]▶
Wasn't able to find a video of the app working, but did find this Javascript port (?), and it seems to roughly match the appearance shown in screenshots:

https://xyzzy.github.io/jsFlightSim/README.html

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NavinF ◴[21 Oct 24 19:01 UTC] No.41907250[source]▶
It's very hard to avoid rolling upside down and I wonder if that's intentional. IRL you can just let go of the controls and most aircraft will be stable and fly close to level
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1. addaon ◴[22 Oct 24 04:31 UTC] No.41911212[source]▶
Just about all useful airplanes are stable in pitch (either statically stable aerodynamically, or closed-loop stable with an enhanced stability system), but roll stable aircraft are relatively rare. Most aircraft are slightly spiral unstable, at least beyond a critical bank angle; but the double time constant is so slow that it's a non-issue.