novice help

[fredrik]

Hello I have a small problem. I downloaded a swedish plane and It "hoovers" about two feet above the runway. this is only visually but my question is if there is a easy way in  the msfs AIRCRAFT EDITOR to lower the points where the wheels touch ground.

I would be very thankfull If anyone could help me with this.

PS has anyone seen a ZUBR (russian hoovercraft) to download somewhere.

[Hagar]

Frederik. You would need to tweak the Vertical Position of the gear. This can be done in FSEdit but I would recommend not using it at all. Much better to edit Aircraft.cfg manually in Notepad. Check out any default Aircraft.cfg for more infomation. The entries you need to tweak are under the [contact_points] section. point.0, point.1 & point.2 are usually the gear parameters. The Vertical Position is the 3rd entry along from the = sign in each line, (start counting from 0). point.0 is usually the nose or tail wheel.

The example below is copied from the default 737_400. On your problem plane try reducing the values in bold type. They are negative values in feet so lowering the value will lower the aircraft. Change them by a small amount (subtract 1 foot) at first to see what happens. Then exit Notepad saving changes. It's a case of trial & error until you get used to it so check it out in the sim each time you make changes. Make a backup copy of Aircraft.cfg first in case you mess it up.

[contact_points]
point.0=1,

[fredrik]

thank you very much. impressive.

Is this a joke, how could I possibly mess it up?


best regards fredrik.

[Scottler]

Nope, no joke.  A lot of stuff can easily be fixed when you know which file to tweak and how to tweak it.

To answer your question, you could end up with a plane that's 19 feet off the ground.  But other than that, that's about the only way you could screw it up.  If you do it exactly as posted, you should  be fine.

[PH_AJH]

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I occasionally mess up...for example when deleting a line from the wrong part of the file, or changing numbers in the wrong places, making type errors...that's not to hard to do. you'll be glad you had a back up sooner or later.

AJ