Hello! I was just curious if anyone has attempted to produce scaled down/appropriate proportioned Air Brakes for use as Flaps and/or Dive Brakes? I was playing with using the VTOL setting for setting out flaps and it seems like it might work but for most projects they're simply too big. Any thoughts?
Yes. This album shows dive brakes being used on my personal SBD-Dauntless.
I've used them for dive brakes before, but not flaps. I think that, within the game, they just add a huge amount of drag rather than actually counting as extensions to the wing. It might be better if you create the trailing edge of your wing from a separate piece, mounted on a hidden rotator. Let me know if any experiments work out, though.