One last try..

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One last try..

Postby Brett_Henderson » Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:02 pm

Since I'll be dedicating most of my sim activity to COF now.. I figured I'd take one last stab at making sense out of the aircraft.cfg files in 2002. As always, I don't get far before throwing up my hands and realizing it's all a mess and the best you can hope for is to tinker until your plane "feels" right. My latest frustration is trying to figure out how (even on default planes) a wing with no dihedral (say a 172 or 208 ) can have contact points with different vertical positions than the wing's apex.

If the computer interprets the handling characteristics of the model from data in the .cfg file... wouldn't the vertical position (especially high wing planes) of the wing-apex be important enough to be the same as its contact points ? I fear that our trusty, default Cessnas should be recovering to level flight from a bank a bit quicker than they do. The computer (according to the .cfg file) thinks the wing apex is much lower than its contact points..making it handle more like a Piper or a Mooney "should"...

Has anybody noticed if COF has some semblance of a "sane" .cfg file in the default planes.. or is it still this erroneous, frustrating gobbly-gook ?

Or am I just confused ?
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Re: One last try..

Postby Felix/FFDS » Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:34 pm

I've been reading that much more knowledgable flyers than myself have indicated that the flight dynamics of defaut a/c in FS9 are much better.
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