General Question Super high G's when using "Energy Project"

[krool1969]

When I start a scenario with my DGIV-3 mounted to the the booster pack from The Energy Project [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=1036"]ENERGY project, release 4[/ame]
The Delta Glider shows a huge number of G's (somewhere around 900+) This sets off alarms and upsets (and sometimes kills) my crew.
Has anyone else had this problem? I like this booster as it seems much more realistic with a Delta Glider sized ship.
I can't imagine what 900 G's would be very comfortable.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

It's a known bug between the DGIV family and most of Kulch's add-ons.

Try the Hyperion launcher, or Quasar. Both have similar capacity, but without the bugs.

 

[GLS]

900Gs... that would make a nice painting in the aft bulkhead. :uhh:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

900Gs... that would make a nice painting in the aft bulkhead. :uhh:

Yep. Even the Rocinante can't match that. :lol:

 

[martins]

High instantaneous g-forces are not unusual in practice. Just drop an inelastic object on a hard surface. For example, hard disks typically have a (non-operating) shock resistance of ~300G.

Sustained accelerations are a different matter. And during a launch it is difficult to see how this would come about. Does this high reading occur only for a single frame, or over a sustained period?

 

[Majid]

High instantaneous g-forces are not unusual in practice. Just drop an inelastic object on a hard surface. For example, hard disks typically have a (non-operating) shock resistance of ~300G.

Sustained accelerations are a different matter. And during a launch it is difficult to see how this would come about. Does this high reading occur only for a single frame, or over a sustained period?

I may be being presumptuous here, but I think this "issue" may be specific to DGIV which might not be using GetForceVector()/GetMass() to compute the G load but a heuristic that devs used to use before these methods were available.

I wonder if launching the XR vessels results in the same outcome, for instance.

 

[krool1969]

The super high G seems to be sustained, but takes place as soon as the scenario is loaded, not at launch.
Launch G's seem comparable to a real life Space Shuttle launch, about 3.5 just after lift-off increasing to about 5-6 (depending on mass of load) before thrust is reduced for orbit trim.

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Indeed. I've ready that the highest G force survived in an accident was about 75 G in an F-18 accident. The plane was doing aerobatics at an air show when the plane hit the ground in a nose high attitude. The front of the plane is slammed into the ground quite hard. The pilot survived but his face hit the stick so hard it shattered the pilot's face

Then some nutter in the air force rode rocket sleds to study the physiological effects of High G's. I can't remember how many G's he sustained but it was quite a bit higher than most people considered survivable. He did survive but it had some pretty horrific physiological effects.