Apparantly a damaged stabilizer is worse than a missing one.

[I./JG52_Woutwocampe]

Blew in my face earlier when I flew 190A5 in Kuban. I got my tail section damaged by AAA during a railway junction attack. One horizontal stabilizer suffered significant damage. It did look bad but the way the plane behaved was way worse. It felt like surfing in a tropical storm. The only thing left to do was to fly home and hope to land without killing myself during landing. I came accross P-39s though. An head on happened. I missed the target obviously because there was no way I could aim accurately, and I kind of pushed the stick hard to avoid a collision; the stress of the maneuver ripped my damaged stabilizer away. It was gone. And man did that feel good. My plane was stable again at the cost of a rather small maneuvrability loss! I ended up shooting down 2x P-39s and landed safe back home.

 

So. What are we supposed to make of that? Am I crazy to think that missing a stabilizer should not be an improvement compared to a damaged one?

Edited April 16, 2021 by I./JG52_Woutwocampe

[von_Tom]

 

It may have cut wires so it flops about.  I've had it where you have to counteract the wallowing around by constantly doing opposite stick movements.

 

von Tom

[[DBS]Browning]

This makes sense to me.

It's better to have no stabilizer than one with bits of aluminum skin flapping in the wind and causing drag and control issues.

[I./JG52_Woutwocampe]

I'd like to read something 'official' about it, a report from a pilot or something, because from my pov, it should behave differently, but not so much better that you can jump back into the fight and be successful. Your plane should act in a more predictable way if missing the stabilizer entirely, but elevator authority should drop in a more significant manner I think. 

 

Again, I could very well be wrong. But I feel like as of now, a damaged stabilizer is 'overmodelled' and a missing one is 'undermodelled'.

 

Maybe this topic should be moved from complains to another section because Im not really complaining haha, I just want to understand if its well modelled or if it deserves a closer look from the devs to be improved. 

Edited April 16, 2021 by I./JG52_Woutwocampe