My understanding is that EF2000 canards primary purpose is to act as stabilisers due to the massively unstable nature of the airframe.
After the initial induction of AOA they direct the airflow in the opposite direction to prevent overshooting the desired angle.
Essentially, if the canards didn’t exist the pilot would be doing backflips.
Yeah I don’t know your source but that makes sense and is coherent with what I’ve said.
Sounds like a very inefficient way of doing things though?
The unstable nature of the aircraft allows for a highly agile aircraft at all speeds.
The canards don’t make large rapid movements, they make small micro adjustments 1000s of times per second.
It’s impossible to find any video with the canards fully deflected in flight, as they can turn almost 90 degrees, but due to their size and the very large distance to the center of mass, they have a huge impact with these small adjustments on any kind of pitch manuver, even during high angle of attack, low speed manuvers.
The FBW system is in complete controll and while it seems counter intuitive it does all this extremely efficiently.
I mean basically every 4th gen + aircraft is unstable and has FBW and it doesn’t need giant nose elevators to perform high AoA safely. That’s what I’m curious about, but I believe you lol.
Hi guys.
Just an update on the MAWS situation. Mirage 2000-5F and 2000D-R1 will receive DDM 2000 MAWS functionality in the major update.
Amazing ! Thanks for the spontaneous notice
Will it get some new fuel tanks as well by any chance?
The 5f (10.0) will get fuel tank like the 5BA ?
Would be really good indeed to have access to those fuel pods, they don’t even block the use of all fox3 possible to take
For Sim it can be interesting, but I think it won’t be necessary for ARB as the Snecma is not super thirsty on m2k. But would still be cool to have the option as it is so iconic silhouette !
Adding more internal fuel and negatively impacting performance is not a good thing for the Mirage 2000.
Only 1300l drop tank just isn’t enough.
The Mirage 5F will have the 5BAs drop tanks too yes.
Thx
There is a Mirage 2000 wing drop tank in the in-game data, are there any plans to add it?
That’s the one i hope the most for (i mean all Mirage 2000s)
Additional fuel tanks are being added periodically over time. Some may not be fully configured yet. The current priority is to give as many different aircraft at least 1 fuel tank option as possible. Others may then be introduced later for aircraft that already have external tanks.
ok thank you
Will Mirage2000 recieve uptaded pilot models? Devblog only mentions about Usa and Russian planes.
This doesn’t seem right, I described the function earlier
Because it’s not a true movable canard. It’s a fixed canard that has the possibility to be feathered/disabled to cancel its effect on the airflow, mainly in case of malfunction in the FBW system.
Explained here, around 1:14:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu4V9zn0wZ4&t=4376s
Also we got this, allegedly from the M4K flight manual
