What a bummer! But at least you saw him and that can be just as good as an autograph at least in my mind. I don't suppose there's an equivalent in the sling-wing world of Bob Hoover is there?
I know there's gotta be a lot of learning to understand how Bob Hoover does that even if it might be sound aerodynamics and physics as well as understanding your plane and having a plane that fits you, but I remembered a trio of developers had made a series of Commanders for FS2004 that had won a lot of awards for extreme detail and accurace so I went looking for it and guess what, at
www.avsim.com it said: Now you can be Bob Hoover with the freeware Shrike. And when I installed it and ran FS2004 the second of the three std. liveries was called Bob Hoover
I'm enclosing a 25% screenshot of my engine-off glide over the runway at SF Intl. It actually handled nicely but only if you didn't apply full back-pressure but then again high-speed stalling is a bit like sliding with a car right? You can't apply full steering in high-speed situations, you have to find the limit and stay within it right?
Btw speaking of the real Shrike, the yoke on the simulated one only turned about 40 degrees from center whereas I know real Cessnas rotate a full 90 degree, is that authentic? (I know these are trivial questions but I'm thinking of making a sim-yoke and I want to have correct movement range).
Btw speaking of videos, did anyone want to see the nutter flying under the Eiffel Tower?
Frank