RE: skyspirit 747-400 2011

[webberernie]

Im sorry to bother everybody but the other dy I downloaded the AirForce One SkySpirit2011. It is a beautiful plane but right grom the start the plane leaned way over to the left and both port engines hit the ground and started to smoke and catch fire.  so I reset the sim and the same thing happened. so my next choice of action was to fool around with the fuel and luggage weight area. I finally got the plane level and somewhat stable with no luggage and the center tank had 100% the right tank had 70% and the center 2 tank had 100% all the others were empty. This cant be right. I have never had to do this to a single plane I ever downloaded and I have done maybe around 500 planes. I know some are really sensititive to the fuel set-up but never like this. has anybody else had this problem or is it my download only? someone please help I know AFO is not a 747-400 but I love the look of this plane.  somewhat depressed   >:(

[Strategic Retreat]

Going by what you described, someone seems to have made an half-assed job in manipulating the Flight Dynamics of that B744... if the plane is important to you, you can either put yourself patiently at debugging said FD or you can simply transplant FD from another, working B744.

To do this, locate a surely working B744 (which FD better be worth being used). Copy into a temp folder its Aircraft.cfg and .AIR files. Open the fictional AFO B744's Aircraft.cfg, find its Contact Points and Lights sections and copy then into the temp folder's Aircraft.CFG, replacing this one's previous similarly named sections and settings.

After having done the above mentioned modification, delete the AFO B744 Aircraft.cfg and .AIR file and copy into its folder the two modded files from the temp folder.

Fire up FS and try your modded AFO B744 out. it SHOULD work fine.

Let me know.

[hhomebrewer]

I've had my SkySpirit 747-8I (yellow, orange, red paint) for maybe three months. The only problem I had was that it needed buckets of elevator trim to get it off the ground. I am sorry that you seem to have gotten a version that has been buggered. Maybe a clean version will show up somewhere on the web...