Simviation Forum - Adding load stations to existing aircraft?

Aug 8^th, 2005 at 11:36am

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I have an existing BAe 146-200 by Jon Murchison. I have been flying this aircraft since fs2002 days.... and love the plane and panel. But there is one area that I want to work on to improve a bit. It has only one "load station" listed.

Is this easily changable just from the aircraft.cfg file.... or does the .air file also need to be edited to make it work?

One of his newest variations of the 146-200 (the strategic military version) HAS four load stations listed. Wouild it be advisable to just "lift" this section of the aircraft.cfg file for THAT plane and subsitute it for the existing one with only one point?

Other suggestions? Appreciate any and all help on this... I'm an "aircraft design" nooooooobieeeeeee. To quote Sargeant Schultz...... "I know nothiiiiiiiing!"

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Reply #1 - Aug 8^th, 2005 at 11:57am

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Yes.

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Reply #2 - Aug 9^th, 2005 at 12:49am

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Thanks Felix.

I just transposed the load points from the other BAe 146-200 aircraft to the one that doesn't have them. Now I have four load points and ti seems to work OK.

Now I want to increase this to more realistic passenger and baggage loading. So I need to work with the geometry of the points... is that right?

What is the coordinate reference system? The CG of the plane?

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..................john

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Reply #3 - Aug 9^th, 2005 at 3:06am

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Hi John.

If you check out some of the OpenSky aircraft.cfgs e.g. the 767-300V4, you'll see what you can do with load station assignments. Same coordinate reference system as the rest in the cfg file.

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Reply #4 - Aug 9^th, 2005 at 9:03am

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This is one of this cases - and setting contact points - where I find Aircraft Container Manager extremely useful, because you get a visual rendering of the wireframe model and setting the load points, etc is a matter of moving a dot into position.

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Reply #5 - Aug 9^th, 2005 at 11:27am

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Godd suggestion microlight. Thanks.

Felix, is that a payware program?

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Reply #6 - Aug 9^th, 2005 at 11:38am

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Felix, is that a payware program?

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Yes, relatively cheap (in my opinion).

http://www.aircraftmanager.com

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