Gentle take-offs at high speed

Mxsmanic wrote:
If you don't know the numbers, and you don't know how to determine
that you're in ground effect in the simulator, then you cannot know
whether it simulates ground effect or not, unless you've read the
code.

That tends to prove it's not in MSFS, because there is a way,
using indications in the panel vs. height, to see if there. I
failed last night to see it. Maybe just be a lousy simmer. Dumb
MSFS doesn't even know air density. Why simulate density's
cousin near the ground?

You don't leave something out just because a user might
not be aware of it--on the contrary, the idea is to simulate it,
anyway, so that he can discover it.

Why tie up the CPU at a time (landing) you least want that? And
the clueless simmer can't see it anyway. It's several complex
formulae, to be calculated a couple times/second at least, and a
function of whole bunch of things, some MSFS don't even know about.

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TxSrv writes:

That tends to prove it's not in MSFS, because there is a way,
using indications in the panel vs. height, to see if there. I
failed last night to see it.

What indications were you looking for?

Why tie up the CPU at a time (landing) you least want that?

Most of the CPU power used in simulation is used to generate visuals.
The amount required for all of the rest of the simulation is trivial
in comparison. Simulating ground effect is insignificantly trivial
from the standpoint of CPU power required.

And the clueless simmer can't see it anyway.

Perhaps, but many simmers are not clueless, and expect a simulation of
real life.

It's several complex formulae, to be calculated a couple times/second
at least ...

Modern CPUs can do that half a million times faster without breaking a
sweat.

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