VTOL plane
VTOL plane i made a while ago. I felt like posting it as it is pretty cool. It has a lifting fan underneath the cockpit which engages with ag4. The back thrusting engine is connected to rotators that are controlled by the VTOL slider. VTOL middle through full down is the range of the engine, it gets very messed up if you go up because the engine goes into the rudder. Use ag 3 when using the lifting fan because although I attempted to balance the thrust of the engines, it is not perfect and will start to spin. While assending either STOVL or VTOL style start to move the VTOL slider up to around 3/4-6/8 from bottom to middle. When you are moving at about 160 mph and about 500 feet off the ground, turn of action group 4 but leave action group 3 on for now because sometimes the airplane starts flatspinning and stalling if you turn it off to early. It is helpful to note that when ag4 is activated the engine is capable of thrust vectoring for yaw so that you may turn while hovering in the air. Landing is pretty simple and just required attention to the altitude’s rate of descent and your speed. I usually go 25-30% on landing and if you see that you are descending too quickly you can just throttle the engines up to full and it will kill your downwards velocity. Once flying it moves like a regular plane however the elevators are large and so you just need to be a little cautious with fully pitching up or down.
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Predecessor Tutorial Plane
- Created On iOS
- Wingspan 34.2ft (10.4m)
- Length 29.4ft (9.0m)
- Height 10.5ft (3.2m)
- Empty Weight 4,999lbs (2,267kg)
- Loaded Weight 5,664lbs (2,569kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 2.578
- Wing Loading 31.9lbs/ft2 (155.7kg/m2)
- Wing Area 177.6ft2 (16.5m2)
- Drag Points 1740
Parts
- Number of Parts 43
- Control Surfaces 5
- Performance Cost 288