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B17/Airfile
Posted:
Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:39 amby OTTO
Found some nice B17's for cfs2, however the airfiles seem to be lacking.
The ground handling qualitys are really poor.
What factors can be edited, if any, to improve on the taxi feature in air.ed ?
OTTO
Re: B17/Airfile
Posted:
Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:51 amby _526th_Fireman
There are two things I found that you can do for tail draggers to make them handle better on the ground.
One, with AirEd increase the "Rudder Control Effectiveness" slightly, and I mean slightly. Too much and you get into a twitchy acft. while flying.
The other, which I have done to all my tail draggers is change a number in the Acft.cfg file. You are increasing the number there by 180, which is 180 degrees. Basically you are rotating the tail wheel 180 degrees.
This is from my Hellcat, go to contact points and in the first line look for the 8th number.
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point.0=1, -19.00, 0.00, -3.98, 3200, 0, 0.40,180.0, 0.30, 2.5, 0.70, 1.0, 6.0, 0, 0, 135
This number was 0.0 on my Hellcat, changing it by 180 degrees made a huge difference on ground handling.
Re: B17/Airfile
Posted:
Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:42 pmby OTTO
Thank you Mr. Fireman !!
I'll give that a try.
Also many thanks for sharing your knowledge with us beginners !
OTTO
Re: B17/Airfile
Posted:
Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:55 amby Padser
~S~ Otto, Fireman,
I've set the relevant entry in the Contact Points section of the aircraft.cfg file for all my stock taildragger aircraft to 120
I find this gives even better ground and deck handling.
~S~
Pads
Re: B17/Airfile
Posted:
Fri Jul 30, 2004 5:46 pmby OTTO
Thanks for the info Pads,
I went to the cfg. & found the steer angle, but there's nothing I can change in it.
Sorry but I'm definitly missing something.
There are only six contact points & that isn't one of them.
I'm not feelin to smart right now heh heh
OTTO
Re: B17/Airfile
Posted:
Sat Jul 31, 2004 10:57 pmby gr31
I almost hate to ask, but have you tried using the left and right brakes for steering? (, & . keys). That's whats done most often in rreal life.
Re: B17/Airfile
Posted:
Sun Aug 01, 2004 7:57 amby OTTO
Yes I do use the brakes.
It's just that in cfs1 they handle so well ,I expected the same in cfs2.
Thanks to all for the input & good advice !
OTTO