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How Flaps Affect Aircraft Performance | A Demo in MSFS By thecorporatepilotdad Flaps can help decrease takeoff performance up to a point, but if flaps are used at all, will they impact climb performance? Will adding flaps help clear an obstacle? This video will help answer some basics about how airplane flaps can help and hurt performance. A greater flap deflection can and will have an impact on takeoff performance but what about on landing? This video will show the benefits of flaps on landing and show what happens when flaps are not used for landing. If interested in aviation podcasts, please take a listen to The Corporate Pilot Guys Podcast which I am a co-host of. Myself and the other co-host are both professional pilot who have currently fly business jets and we've both flown various types of jet aircraft over the last 20 years. We talk about current events, failures, training, written tests, and so much more. Episodes also include ATC tips given by Air Traffic Controllers as well as aircraft buying tips from an aircraft broker (McGill Aviation). The Corporate Pilot Guys Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3CGTyNGt0hGG9nlSDElOlj Join this channel at the Private Pilot tier or higher to get access to AD-FREE guides and tutorials on the Citation Longitude, CJ4, Flysimware Cessna 414, Concorde, and more. These videos are informative and are entertainment, but in no way are they meant to replace actual in-person flight instruction from a Certified Flight Instructor. @thecorporatepilotdad thecorporatepilotdad Youtube channel The Corporate Pilot Guys Podcast About The Author This video is produced by thecorporatepilotdad. He has been a FlightSim.Com member for close to twenty years and using Flight Simulator since back in the day of FS98 and FS2000. He is also a professional pilot with over 8000 hours of real world flight experience ranging from Cessna 152s to super-mid size business jets.
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/images/notams/notams21/auth0826.jpgThe flaps lever, compatible with either the Spitfire MkIX orSpitfire Mk1A is finally released today. For such a small flightcontrol this has taken a long time to get released and it isn’t forlack of effort. Several entirely new mechanisms and systems needed tobe developed and not just for the lever itself but also the mountingsystem and the universal hub. This flap lever uses one of the smallest bearings I’ve ever worked with and that brought its own set of engineering challenges. The inner diameter is just 2mm! It also uses some new switches which we haven’t worked with in this project before. It all comes together in a very compact new plugin component which has been named the mClick6700. It is expected to come in very handy on all kinds of controls. Flap leversGear leversFuel selectorsCowl flaps / radiator leversEtc.Instrument Panel Mounting SystemAnother major development which I've been prototyping for over ayear is the instrument panel mounting system. Something simple andeasily adjustable was needed that could be fitted to a desk veryquickly. The clamp system was the major hurdle as most things I tried(from microphone or camera desk clamps to masonry L-Bolts) were tooclumsy, expensive or had extra bits that got in the way. Finally Idiscovered a clamp used by jewellers when making fine cuts with a fretsaw. It led to the development of this clamp system, which supportsnot just the Spitfire flaps lever but all manner of radio/navequipment, starter/magneto buttons and much more. Universal Hub UpgradeThese flaps levers also prompted me to finalise the fullspecification of the Universal Hub Version One. Some planning aheadwas needed and you’ll see that the design accomodates a second engineinput which will support the Mosquito FB as well as landing gear andradiator flaps. It will also support a range of other aircraft,whether warbirds or GA. For those aircraft that don’t have weapons onthe flight stick and quadrant we will gain access to some unusedbuttons that can be remapped and used via the MISC1 and MISC2inputs. Possibilities are nav equipment or fuel selectors. Source