Flaps lowering, tell me how

[Nexusys]

I have an addon aircraft. Its an Abacus airbus a380 for FSX. When i fully extended the flap for landing, i realised that its not low enough. its a bit too high and looks ugly. how can i edit something to make it lower? i reckon it looks better. is it something to do with the aircraft.cfg?
thanks in advance...

[garymbuska]

I am not 100% sure if you can alter them but if you can look in the aircraft cfg file for this section
This is from the default B737_800

[flaps.0]       //Trailing Edge Flaps
type             = 1                                    // 1 - tail, 2 - lead
span-outboard    = 0.8                                  // 0.0 .. 1.0
extending-time   = 20                                   // seconds
flaps-position.0 = 0                                    // degrees
flaps-position.1 = 1                                    // degrees
flaps-position.2 = 2                                    // degrees
flaps-position.3 = 5                                    // degrees
flaps-position.4 = 10                                   // degrees
flaps-position.5 = 15                                   // degrees
flaps-position.6 = 25                                   // degrees
flaps-position.7 = 30                                   // degrees
flaps-position.8 = 40                                   // degrees
damaging-speed   = 250                                  // KIAS
blowout-speed    = 300                                  // KIAS
lift_scalar = 1.0
drag_scalar = 1.0
pitch_scalar= 1.0
system_type = 1                                         //Hydraulic

[flaps.1]       //Inboard Leading Edge Flaps
type             = 2                                    // 1 - tail, 2 - lead
span-outboard    = 0.8                                  // 0.0 .. 1.0
extending-time   = 2                                    // seconds
flaps-position.0 = 0                                    //
flaps-position.1 = 1.0                                  //
damaging-speed   = 250                                  // KIAS
blowout-speed    = 300                                  // KIAS
lift_scalar = 1.0
drag_scalar = 1.0
pitch_scalar= 1.0
system_type = 1                                         //Hydraulic


[flaps.2]       //Outboard Leading Edge Slat
type             = 2                                    // 1 - tail, 2 - lead
span-outboard    = 0.8                                  // 0.0 .. 1.0
extending-time   = 3                                    // seconds
flaps-position.0 = 0                                    //
flaps-position.1 = 0.5                                  //
flaps-position.4 = 1.0                                  //
damaging-speed   = 250                                  // KIAS
blowout-speed    = 300                                  // KIAS
lift_scalar = 1.0
drag_scalar = 1.0
pitch_scalar= 1.0
system_type = 1                                         //Hydraulic

I hope this helps. 8-)

[Nexusys]

Thanks Gary, that will give me an idea to edit the .cfg. unfortunately, im at work and will try when i get home.

[reider]

I have an addon aircraft. Its an Abacus airbus a380 for FSX. When i fully extended the flap for landing, i realised that its not low enough. its a bit too high and looks ugly. how can i edit something to make it lower? i reckon it looks better. is it something to do with the aircraft.cfg?
thanks in advance...

I`ve seen this product both separately and in an Airbus Collectors Edition, its mainly the A380 I`m looking at.  If you have the time could you say a few words about it?  Does it look good, fly well?  Of especial interest is the quality of the gauges/panel which doesn`t look so good on the admittedly partly blocked trial version.  Knowing if it works in FSX/SP1/SP2/Acceleration would help, DX10 is probably out of it anyway.

Abacus doesn`t particularly have a good name so I`m being careful over this one.  The whole package of the Collectors Edition is not done by them but the A380 is I believe.  Anything you could let us know would be helpful, since others are asking about the A380 too, thanks.

Reider

[macca22au]

I am sorry to be terse, but Abacus make great scenery and in my experience poor aircraft.

It was a quick and dirty 380 put on the market even before the real thing was flying.   I consider it to have  been a poor investment.

[Felix/FFDS]

[quote]The whole package of the Collectors Edition is not done by them but the A380 is I believe.

[macca22au]

Felix;  you may be right.  But whoever would expect a 380 to be navigated through the default GPS!  

[BuzzDatAzz]

Overland has an excellent a380, it does gave some issues though, some of the guages do not work, but none of them are vital, you can still fly the plane.