Problems whith any aircrafts in misions and qc

[Jai]

Hi, i installed any aircraft than i can use in free flight without problems, but in qc, or in missions and campaings, i can't use, for example with the I16_Ishak, i can read this error message: "error to iniciated the aircraft. I16_Ishak_Tip 5.5., the same mission with other aircrafts runs correctly, , i don't know why, thank you for your help, and sorry my english. Un saludo.

[Hagar]

Hello Jai. Please tell me the page this aircraft is posted on so I can check it out for you.

[Jai]

Hi Hagar, is here in the CFS2 page 47,  http://www.simviation.com/cfs2aircraft47.htm , this is Polikarpov I-16 Tip Package 1.0, the same error occurs me whit the other Tips, thak you.

[Hagar]

Hi Jai. It's a bigger file than I expected. I'll keep my promise to check it out for you but this might take a while.

Meanwhile, open the DP file in Notepad & check the allegiance= & entered_service= entries under [MISC_DATA]. If the allegiance= entry is any higher than 4 it's a nationality other than the default British, German, US or Japanese. As this is a Russian aircraft this is quite possible. You might need to install the updated Country.cfg for it to show up in missions & campaigns. http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs2/articles_SDK_countryfile.asp

The entered_service= date must be earlier than the date of the first mission in a campaign. Change it if necessary.
This should not affect QC providing you added the aircraft to the QC database. Use the latest QC Editor V 2.2.0 by Jaesen Jones. http://www.simviation.com/cfs2utilities1.htm
I have found that some Gmax aircraft don't work in QC.

[Hagar]

OK Jai. As promised I checked out that I-16. It's fine in Free Flight but when I tried it in QC - CFS2 immediately crashed to desktop. Unfortunately, this is one of the aircraft I mentioned that is not suitable for use in AI. That means it's no use for QC, missions & campaigns.

I can't be certain but suspect it's a Gmax design originally intended for FS2002. It's possible to manually edit the MDL so these aircraft work in CFS2 but this is not always 100% successful - as in this case.

PS. Sorry. I can fix most problems but not this one.

[Boatz]

Jai

Actually the fix is quite simple but not obvious. The cause of the CTD is because the  "title=" line in the aircraft.cfg file is to long. First uninstall the AC with QC editor, then shorten the name in the aircraft.cfg file to something much shorter, here's a sample.

Original:
title=I-16 Ishak Tip 5 "Lieutenant Liu Chi-Sheng, 21st PS, CAF, Wuhan area, China, 31st May 1938"

My edit:
title=I-16 Ishak Tip 5 "China, 1938"

Now re-install and it should work fine in both QC & missions.

All of Ivan Hsu's 1-16's suffer from the same problem so simply shorten the names & they will work just fine. Also make shure you get the version 2 update for the Tip 5 as its a FSDS2 model (Much better frame-rates & animation). I dont know if its on the Simviation.com site or not, but it is on Flightsim.com.

Hope this helps, it has worked for me.


Boatz

[Jai]

Hello,  the first, thank to both for your help.
This was the reason Boatz, the long title line in aircraft.cfg. i just download the version 2.0 and works better, thank you very much for the information.

[Hagar]

Well done guys. Thanks Boatz for your help.

Believe it or not this had occurred to me but I didn't actually try it. This is not like me at all. Sorry Jai.

PS. To tell the truth I became a little discouraged after cold booting my PC for the umpteenth time.