More importantly, I don't think DCS flight model is a 'magic bullet', so even if they'd make it openly accessible, I doubt we'd see a sudden blast of new aircrafts with super-realistic flight models. My _personal_ opinion based on that, is that the difference in complexity between the two flight models is not enormous, even if DCS could be somewhat more complex and/or accurate. That is exactly the article I was referring to, the paragraph titled 'Advanced Flight Model' is very interesting to read.įrom the descriptions given, the approach used by DCS is very similar to X-Plane.

Maybe one day we will have a simulator as open as FSX and X-Plane with such advanced FM to allow people to make all the stuff they want.

It's like a secret they keep to the most talented groups to create approved addons, not for everyone to access and tweak. One thing I remember reading is that very few people has access to the Advanced Flight Model within DCS. This Article, brought to this forum by Jcomm I believe, is very good to read and get to know the truth behind all the myths about FM that has been circulating the internet for years. That being said, of course this does mean that any 'Blade Element'-like simulator is better than a 'look-up tables' one. Maybe you don't see any real advantages and that is fine, but the developers of those flight sims do! After all, a 'look-up tables' FM would be far easier to code and aircrafts easier to design, so there must be a valid reason why they did not choose to do so.

In a post by Jcomm some days ago, there was a link to a long post of one of the developers of DCS, very interesting to read, and he precisely said that they went to a 'Blade Element'-like flight model (instead of a pure 'look-up tables' FM) exactly because it was the only way in which they could get that additional edge in the flight model feeling and realism.Īgain, it's not by chance that simulators that gave top priority to flight model feeling and realism, like Condor Soaring, Silent Wings, DCS, Flight Unlimited (at the time), make all use of a 'Blade Element'-like flight model. BTW- this statement won't exactly apply to helicopters. When getting out of the normal flight envelope, it's up to the programmer to supply additional information.for the sake of realism. In my book, as a long time real life GA flyer.I don't see any real advantages between look up tables and other methods, such as blade element.

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