What is airtime exactly?

[Clumsybeast]

I am playing career mode, and it wants me to have at least 5 seconds of airtime on my coaster.. Not sure what that is exactly..

[A Fat, Angry Serval]

Short explanation: airtime is negative vertical Gs.

Long explanation:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=806613205
Read the section on airtime elements.

[PAPI SHREK]

Airtime: the amount of time your butt is in the air.

[Time_Child]

引用自 VestedGamr：

Short explanation: airtime is negative vertical Gs.

No it's not, airtime is the feeling of weightlessness, 0G.

[UnknownDude]

引用自 ___TimeChild___：

引用自 VestedGamr：

Short explanation: airtime is negative vertical Gs.

No it's not, airtime is the feeling of weightlessness, 0G.

Actually, no it's not. Airtime is the time where you experience 0G or less, so every time you are lifted into the air.

[Diesel]

When The coaster Is being pulled down by the track and you get lifted off your seat because your initial velocity is acting in the opposite direction to the force of the coaster's thrust, this creates the feeling of you being lifted out of your seat only to be stopped by the seatbelt of the coaster which pulls you down and stops you flying off the coaster and dying.

Essentially centripital forces acting on a mass accelerating around a point;

Imagine a string with a weight attached and you spin it around a point, its constantly accelerating because it is always changing direction, the velocity always acts in the direction of the spinning mass, if the string were to suddenly dissapear and this were to take place in a vacuum with no nearby planets the mass would continue in the direction of the velocity in that point in time indefinitly, the track going over a hill around a point with a radius of r acts like the string in my previous analogy, the coaster and you are the mass on the string, if the string were to dissapear wether that be your seatbelt or the track itself you/the coaster (depending on which dissapears) would be thrown in that velocity.

[Time_Child]

引用自 Unknown Soldier：

引用自 ___TimeChild___：

No it's not, airtime is the feeling of weightlessness, 0G.

Actually, no it's not. Airtime is the time where you experience 0G or less, so every time you are lifted into the air.

I didn't mention the time but explenation was accurate, 0G.. Or less is not right though, feeling of falling is negative G.

[A Fat, Angry Serval]

引用自 ___TimeChild___：

引用自 Unknown Soldier：

Actually, no it's not. Airtime is the time where you experience 0G or less, so every time you are lifted into the air.

I didn't mention the time but explenation was accurate, 0G.. Or less is not right though, feeling of falling is negative G.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-time
"In the context of amusement rides, air-time refers to the time during which riders of a roller coaster or other ride experience either weightlessness or negative G-forces."

[Time_Child]

引用自 VestedGamr：

引用自 ___TimeChild___：

I didn't mention the time but explenation was accurate, 0G.. Or less is not right though, feeling of falling is negative G.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-time
"In the context of amusement rides, air-time refers to the time during which riders of a roller coaster or other ride experience either weightlessness or negative G-forces."

Seems you're right, 0 to-1G's is seen as airtime. My bad :)