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Here is the deal, I downloaded a plane and it is really cool, almost perfect except that the flight dynamics are a bit optimistic.  How do I modify these?

snake;

There is some things you can change in
the CFG

look for "flight Dynamics"

change the =1 to bigger# to make it quick and smaller# to
slow it down,like 1.25 or .75

You may have to,if the previous doesn't work,open the aircraft folder until it shows on screen all the component files and folders. You will have an 'Aircraft' file there and when you click on this it will give you all the information you may need to change how the aircraft reacts. Have a look at it before  you change anything to see what your options are and what you want to achieve. As always make a copy of the original and put it out of harms way.
Also you are looking for the 'AIRCRAFT' file not the 'Airfile' file. Cheers

See my reply in the thread 'Pitch Problems with Some Models..'

You arm yourself with Notpad or Wordpad so you can edit the aircraft.cfg file and AirEd.exe so you can edit the air file. It also helps to have a basic understanding of aerodynamics (like power, lift, drag and stuff)

Then you shut yourself away for a couple of weeks and you change things in the files - one or two at a time, then restart FS and see what effects the changes make. You either give up (many do) or at the end of it you learn about how to edit an fde - and you end up with what you're looking for.


LOTS of people ask how you do it. There are one or 2 tutorials around - but there's no quick fix. You learn by doing it because different factors affect different aircraft in different ways.

So that's it. It's not easy, it's also time consuming to learn and because you need to keep stopping and restarting the sim to see the results of your work (much of which you junk) not many people have enough patience to succeed and/or are good at it.

So basically you're on your own if you can't find a replacement suitable fde already done for you!

Best of luck and hope you come through!



Roger

Wow, thanks for the replies, I appreciate it.  I have been up for two days working on the flight dynamics of the new typhoon, Some of you may have downloaded it, when I am done if you want a much improved flight model, let me know and I will send it away.  Anyway, I think I am real close on having the controls pretty much where I want them (pitch, roll, yaw, etc..), however, the thing now is that I have no idea how to modify the thrust, other than changing the total amount, and I dont think that is the problem, the problem is the aplication, or rather the way in which the thrust "ramps up" to full power.  It seems that I can pull power all the way back and the thing still goes like a bat out of hell.  I have increased the weight from 30,000 to 38,500 and it helped some, but I would really like to get a more linear throttle response.  So, What do I change to modify this?

Bye the way, if the creator of this plane is out there reading this, I think you did a marvelous job on how the plane looks, I am just really picky on how it flys.  I hope you dont mind me changing it some?

Hope Paul and Dave don't mind, too much.  :o


It must be a personal thing. I didn't think the FDs were bad, at all. I've "touched up" certain lines on other aircraft that needed it, but I found the Typhoon to have a fairly real temperment.

Like I say, it must be personal preference.

[quote]Hope Paul and Dave don't mind, too much.

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there is no way a human pilot could survive in that plane with those flight dynamics.the thing would go to more than +10g's instantly, that would kill someone.

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there is no way a human pilot could survive in that plane with those flight dynamics.the thing would go to more than +10g's instantly, that would kill someone.