Hi there,

I have a problem with some planes.
Some planes won´t follow the flightplan and crash.

I allready red the TTools help wich suggests to
use another .air file if a plane has problems with flying
or landing. This worked in some cases but in some cases
not.
Actually I would like to add the B-52 (freeware package)
as AI.
I create a flightplan, compile and the plane is where it should be. I follow the plane but in the moment
after start .. when it should make a turn in the direction
to the destination airport, it jiggles it´s wings, and
flies just staight forward until it crashes some mountain.
I tried the same with the default 747... and this works well
the plane turns in the right direction and anything is fine.
So I used the 747 air file.. renamed it, and copied it
to the b52 folder. But the same thing happend again
it just flies straight forward.
I also tried with  copying the autopilot section from the 747 aircraft.cfg to the b52 aircraft.cfg. without success.

I can only imagine that it is some variable in the
aircraft.cfg wich isn´t set right.
The plane itself flies well, and also the autopilot works well. (default 747 panel)

Someone has an idea how to get such planes to work as
AI ?

Alternatively could someone suggests a AI capable
B52 ?

Thank You !

Yes I rebootet Fs after every change. It´s
not only that b52 I ´m having problems with. I allready
had the same issue with other planes, too.
But I usually found other models/packages
of the same plane that worked well.
But so far I didn´t find any other b52 nor
a solution to fix this problem.

AFAIK, there's no coding in FS9 to make aircraft fly around mountains. I know there's some AI terrain avoidance coded into FS9 but this does not preclude (addon) AI planes from mountain crashes.

If the rising terrain is in the vicinity of the ARR airport, I don't think there's much can be done about it.

If it's in the DEP airport area, one can include an alternate airport on a new track which misses the rising terrain and where the AI does a TNG before proceeding to DEST.

I too have tried editing the aircraft.cfg to change aircraft climb and descent rates but no joy.

Bill

P.S. If the rising terrain is on the AI approach path, the AI will often miss the terrain only to go missed and do endless go-arounds until disappearing into cyberspace.

Sam, do a search on AVSIM for my name, O'Brien.

I did a B-52 AI package, this should work with the freeware Buff as well.

http://community.webshots.com/album/122698236WADnXY

PM me if you have any problems!