Calibrated Airspeed Improvements
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I was referred to this neat snippet in the Caravan manual:
NOTE: This is the first Black Square aircraft to implement an accurate calculation of calibrated
airspeed (CAS). In other aircraft, MSFS assumes the airspeed to be “ideal”, suffering no effects
from the airflow around the airframe, or the design of the pitot system. For most aircraft, this
effect is negligible, but for the Caravan, it can produce an apparent difference of up to 15 knots.First, thanks for this, now I finally understand the difference between CAS and IAS. I'm sure if I'd spent five minutes on it I could have answered it, but in the past I've just scratched my head and said "why wouldn't my ASI be calibrated, what the heck."
Second, previous Black Square history suggests this is something that's been on your drawing board for a while. With it making its debut with the Caravan, is this one of those things that will make its way out to the rest of the fleet, or do other Black Square aircraft fall into the negligible category?
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I actually tried backporting it to the Baron just for fun, and the difference was definitely noticeable, but probably only if you knew what you were looking for. It would mostly only affect your perceived stall speed at high gross weights, so it might make the airspeeds "look" more accurate compared to the numbers in the book, but the effect is probably negligible for 98% of users. I'll add it to the list and see if I have the time before the next round of updates.
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I actually tried backporting it to the Baron just for fun, and the difference was definitely noticeable, but probably only if you knew what you were looking for. It would mostly only affect your perceived stall speed at high gross weights, so it might make the airspeeds "look" more accurate compared to the numbers in the book, but the effect is probably negligible for 98% of users. I'll add it to the list and see if I have the time before the next round of updates.
@Black-Square said in Calibrated Airspeed Improvements:
the difference was definitely noticeable, but probably only if you knew what you were looking for.
Sure don't, but looking forward to learning
