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Prop Torque Direction?

As far as I understand, those effects can also be tuned using the following aircraft.cfg settings.

torque_on_roll= 1.000 //
gyro_precession_on_pitch = 1.000 //
gyro_precession_on_yaw = 1.000 //
 
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The way I remembered the effect of prop torque when flying single engined props was that if the prop rotated clockwise as seen by the pilot, the aircraft tried to roll the other way which pressed the port wheel into the mud and made it yaw to the left!

The Fairy Gannet had counter-rotating props on co-axial shafts to zero out torque effects and the Kamov series of helicopters had counter-rotating co-axial rotors for the same reason.

Roy
 
It would be interesting to try to model a Sopwith Camel which, according to Wikipedia:

... turned rather slowly to the left, which resulted in a nose up attitude due to the torque of the rotary engine. But the engine torque also resulted in the ability to turn to the right in half the time of other fighters, although that resulted in more of a tendency towards a nose down attitude from the turn. Because of the faster turning capability to the right, to change heading 90° to the left, many pilots preferred to do it by turning 270° to the right.
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I also know it was also said that the Camel was never actually travelled in the direction it was pointing
 
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