Hi Glitch. The gear & floats [contact_points] entries in Aircraft.cfg should work independently. For an amphibian you would need 2 sets of entries, one set (Class 1) for the wheels & one set (Class 4) for the floats. For an aircraft like the PBY I would use a minimum of 4 float (Class 4) entries, fore & rear keel + the 2 wingtip floats. The floats would be set higher than the keel to allow it to rest on either one when stationary.

Make sure the [contact_points] entries are numbered in sequence. If you miss one or make an error both the entry & the ones following it will be ignored. You can mail me the CFG to check out if you wish.

   Felix I have tried it with both negative and positive entries. To no effect, The float level does not change no matter what Y coordinate entries I use.
   Hagar, on the numbered in sequence. Are you talking about the sequence inside each float contact poiint, longitudinal position, lateral position, vertical position? Or the sequence of the float point entries themselves. I have been using front center float as the first float point entrie, aft center float as the second, left wingtip float as the third and right wingtip float as the fourth.
   I am going to spend a several hours chasing this problem over the weekend. I am going to check the entire project over again in case it is a parts naming or heirarchy problem. With the float points not responding to any manipulation, the problem is probably in the design somewhere. If I can't get it figured out by Monday I will send you the CFG file to check Hagar. Thanks for the help guys. Any other suggestions and comments are welcome. I need as much help as I can get!

Glitch

   Roger that! Great pic! I am just trying to figure out why it will not work with this design. Since it should work with a correctly designed aircraft. The root problem must be with the way I have designed it.
    Now I must find the flaw. Two of my major suspect areas are the parts names and checking the way I joined parts together. Are there any read me's or tutoials on parts naming for FS2002?
    I think I found a part of the problem. I had the wing tip float parts joined as one part with the axis for the part at tihe pivot point in the wing and named using water_rudder_deploy for animation of the part. I thought that the sim might be reading it as a reference point for the float level.
    I changed the name and re-did the animation for the parts. I generated another aircraft and tried it out. When I try to land the new aircraft on water, the aircraft is thrown tumbleing up in the air as soon as I contact the water level. So I still have a problem in the design.

   I am starting to get many folders full of reworked parts trying to fix this. All this clutter is getting confusing. I may table work on this design. And do a simpler model float plane, easier to experiment with. When I figure out what I am doing wrong, fix the existing design. Gotta go now more later.

Glitch

I think I got it . Sees to be a conflict with a setting in the airfile having to do with the reference center point. I guess! I used differing Vertical entries in the .cfg file till I noticed a change then adjusted it till the plane floated where I wanted it. I adjusted the lat.and long. values to get the wake where I wanted it. None of the values were even close to the axis center values from The FSDS2 design. Here is a pic

   So all I can figure is a difference in the Data reference points in the FSDS2 design and the .air file I am using. I don't know how to fix or explane it other than to say it os floating now.

Glitch