Spoiler operation on the tankers during refueling
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In the light of striving for a more realistic sim, I’ve noticed that the flight spoilers on the tanker are not quite modeled correctly. Once the tanker establishes his bank angle during a turn, the spoilers should retract to a flush position on the top of the wing. If they remained up, then the tanker would continue to roll, obviously not what he wants to do. The spoiler assists the aileron in establishing the bank angle. Also, only the inboard flight spoiler lifts and retracts during a turn; it’s a flight spoiler, and only the inboard spoiler on each wing operate inflight, depending on the direction of turn, as opposed to a speed brake, inflight or on the ground, where both inboard and outboard spoilers operate simultaneously on both wings. Trippp
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Both spoilers work inflight and on the ground. The system is cables and pulleys. The spoiler should be flush when the control column is centered - in a turn you have to keep the control column slightly deflected or the jet will naturally roll back to level as a result of designed aerodynamic stability. Thus - you might see slight deflection in the control surfaces, but most likely not enough to deflect the spoilers. You would likely see some deflection in the inboard aileron.
Also - this only applies to the KC135. Not sure about the 10 - its not a real tanker anyway.
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I was very surprised by this the first time I had a go at a 737, coming from aircraft with neutral roll stability!
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No big deal. IMO you shouldn’t care about that as it is somerhing internal to IA code … I guess it is not a good idea to rewrite the entire IA just because of this?! … There are much more critical to do