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Greetings Gents

I found an 'interesting' change in the aircraft.cfg file.

My favorite planes in FS9 are the Hawker Seafurys by David Hanvey/Paul Barry/Jerry Beckwith.  So, I decided to see how well they worked in FSX.  I had 'played' with the .cfg file to add smoke to all of them, and had it working in FS9.  However in FSX, when I hit the smoke button, I found that the smoke appeared, BUT, it was at one wingspan above and below the plane  ???

I opened the .cfg files for the default EXTRAs, to see if I could find what was happening. I found that for some reason, MS changed the way the smoke parameters are read. The first parameter in FS9 is the VERTICAL one and the last 2 are HORIZONTAL.  It is the opposide in FSX.  Once I changed the Seafury's .cfg to match the Extra's format, the smoke appeared at the proper position.

Here are the Extra's FS9 and FSX smoke entried for comparison:

FS9:
[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0=0.00, -0.70, 1.40, fx_smoke_w

FSX:
[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0=-10.00, -0.70, 0.0, fx_smoke_w

Now, if I can just figure out why the CANOPY on the Seafurys doesn't display I'll be a 'happy camper'.

Oldbuzzard,

See the "Gets Verrrrrrry Windy" thread currently near this one for some possible info on the cockpit glass.

best,

.................john