Simviation Forum - Float plane sinks?

May 22^nd, 2003 at 4:32pm

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I have a DHC-2 Montana Air float plane which will not float? I don' t know how to fix this. Have plenty of other float planes which work OK. Have tried to compare aircraft files and looked in air.file, but still none the wiser ???
Anyone know how to make it float?

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Reply #1 - May 22^nd, 2003 at 4:37pm

x Ex Member

Was the plane for fs2002?
I've had a few for fs2002 that won't work
in fs2002pro don't know the answer I
checked all the files and never found the
differance in the ones that would and
the ones that wouldn't
hope someone in the know can help
us both Sad

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Reply #2 - May 22^nd, 2003 at 4:47pm

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The DHC2 Beaver plane is by Fred Banting . It's a FS2000 add on. Really nice looker with Repaint by Fred Choate. Its a nice plane to fly, three versions in one file (wheel, ski, float) unfortunatley the float version doesn't.

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Reply #3 - May 22^nd, 2003 at 4:51pm

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I don't think the fs2000 floaters
will work on fs2002 with out
major work overs I realy like
the little italian racer but it
don't like water so I slew it
and fly the "wheels off it" Angry

bad pun

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Reply #4 - May 22^nd, 2003 at 6:30pm

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x has hit the nail on the head.

Before FS2002, you couldn't float anything on water. It was an instant crash. The parameters for defining a float plane were a new characteristic of FS2002 along with the water itself.

You can define them in the .air file, but it goes beyond just specifying that the type of aircraft is a floatplane if you want reasonable dynamic behaviour.

Unless you're completely besotted with that particular model, it's probably not worth the work involved unless you're extremely lucky with the remainder of the dynamics in the file.

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Reply #5 - May 22^nd, 2003 at 10:15pm

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Howdy:

other people have done the conversion a long time ago. Look for bvr_rpt2k2.zip or bvr7_upg.zip at avsim.com or elsewhere or go to http://www.timberwolfaviation.com/ and look under Division Aircraft.

That should get you floating...

Cheers, Holger

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Reply #6 - May 23^rd, 2003 at 6:18am

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Holger
This is excellent news. Have to thank you for the help and will wing my way to timberwolf right now.

Once again many thanks

Havocmwf
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Reply #7 - May 23^rd, 2003 at 7:02am

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Converting a floatplane to work in FS2002 is not really that difficult. Basically, you change the Class of the [contact_points] gear entries in Aircraft.cfg from 1 (wheels) to 4 (floats).

This will make it float in the FS2002 water. There's a little more work involved to make a proper job of it.

PS. Sorry, I made a slight mistake. I've corrected it.

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Reply #8 - May 23^rd, 2003 at 9:39am

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No need to go anywhere! It would help if some forum users knew simviation or tried our search engine - not by filename because different sites use different filenames for the same addons... but by keywords/ title or author

Ever tried working yourself to the bone & some just walk right by... ? Roll Eyes

http://www.simviation.com/fs2002props6.htm
http://www.simviation.com/fs2002props7.htm

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Reply #9 - May 23^rd, 2003 at 9:52am

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Pete
it falls under Sad

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so you can see the forest" Sad

thanks

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Reply #10 - May 26^th, 2003 at 6:24am

Havocmwf Offline
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Thanks to all of those who gave 'useful' feedback, and well what can I say about the rest....you know who you are.
Found the update file....bvr2k2 which allows the plane to float.

Something I learned a long time ago was, hard work never killed anyone, however taking a moment to ask saves one hell of a lot of time. Its called using a resource to work smarter, and this is where the smart guys (and galls) are.

Thanks again
Flying high.

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