A little more thrust

[Happyapple96]

I have a plane that does not have enough thrust. It rises very, Very slowly. Which entries in the Aircraft.cfg should I tweak?
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[Groundbound1]

Jet or prop?

[Capt.Propwash]

I'm curious about this too.   My Alphasim Blackhawk (HH-60), takes off very slowly. even with only 400 lbs of fuel, and 2 pilots weighing 180lbs each.  total weight = 760 + whatever the aircraft weighs.   With this weight, it should take off like a bat out of He..  well, you know; but it doesnt.  It acts like it is at 100% fuel, with 4000 lbs cargo/PAX on board.  ..... very slow.


Also, i have a couple Prop jobs that taxi by themselves at IDLE Throttle, WITH the Parking break set.  (too much thrust)

[Groundbound1]

I haven't messed around these things in a while, but if memory serves, these are the entries to play with.

For jets:

[TurbineEngineData]
fuel_flow_gain=

[Capt.Propwash]

thanks for the info. it is at least a starting point to start to look at things.   [smiley=dankk2.gif] [smiley=beer.gif] [smiley=thumbup.gif] [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

[Groundbound1]

Like I said, It's been a while since the last time I messed around with those settings. I'd love to give a better description of what to do, but I don't remember all the details, and would rather not say, than say wrong.

[aeroart]

Before you start fooling around with the aircraft.cfg file, make a copy of it -- just in case!

Try increasing the values, one at a time, and see what happens. For example, if you change [thrust_scalar] from 9.0 to 10.0, change that line's values to read:

[Capt.Propwash]

way ahead of you. in fact, i have backups of the entire default AIRCRAFT folder as it was straight out the box, as well as .zip backups of EVERY aircraft, scenery, program, EVERYTHING.  8-)   Never mess with computer files without the RECOVERY in place.

[Happyapple96]

Thanks for all the replies! I was on vacation, so I couldn't get back. My plane was a prop, I changed the "maximum_torque" and "static_thrust". Now it's working normally.  8-)