Don't get mad - get even

Um, it wouldn't be accurate, but maybe you could add Eric Marciano's radar gauge to your Spitfire to keep an eye on nearby traffic - or start using the rearview mirror.  Great pic BTW!

Nice pic is all I can say

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It is because of the contact points in the aircraft.cfg file for the aircraft you are flying or the AI plane (or a combination of both). Most aircraft builders really skip that area and rely on the model file measurements to provide the correct numbers when the .air file writes the aircraft.cfg file the first time the plane is test flown by the builder. Model builders will usually concentrate on the landing gear contact points and really shrug off the rest.

Another problem is FS uses metrics for some measurements and (U.S.) feet for others. Some model builders use metrics to design their aircraft and some use feet and they forget to convert the measurements before exporting the model out of GMAX or other programs. If the aircraft manufacturer does not translate the changes correctly you end up with a set of contact points that can be ridiculously offset.

Not uncommon.

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Either that or edit in the correct contact points for the aircraft yourself.

I have a method of doing that by using the [LIGHTS] system and a a single nav-red light. I make a backup copy of the aircraft.cfg file, then remove all the lines under the [LIGHTS] section and copy all the X-Y-Z locations from every line after point.XX=2 from the [CONTACT_POINTS] section. =2 are all the contact crash/scrape point lines.

The [LIGHTS] section allows for up to 18 lines so I copy all the x-y-z locations from [CONTACT_POINTS] =2 lines and make up a set of light lines with all the contact locations in them, and give them an FX call to: fx_navred which means when I boot the sim and the aircraft, I turn on the lights (keyboard L) and all the contact points appear on the screen as a glowing red light. I can then edit the aircraft.cfg [LIGHTS] lines to get the contact points EXACTLY where they belong and even add more if I wish.

In example, if the contact lines reads:

point.3=2, -14.17, -47.33,  4.10,  787.4, 0, 0.000,  0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 5, 0.0, 0.0
point.4=2, -54.00,   0.00,  2.83, 787.4, 0, 0.000,  0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 9, 0.0, 0.0

I would make a light lines that reads:

light.0 = 3, -14.17, -47.33,  4.10, , fx_navred//contact point.3
light.1 = 3, -54.00,   0.00,  2.83, , fx_navred//contact point.4
ets...

The bold numbers are the ones to transfer and I note what light line matches the contact point line at the end after the // entry


You must save the aircraft.cfg file for each edit and in the sim you must reload the aircraft (ALT key, Menu, select aircraft) in order to see the changes made each time the light lines are edited. Each contact location number is in feet, not meters.

Once I locate all my points using the light lines, I then transfer the numbers from the light lines back to the contact point line it belongs to...  Then using the backup of the aircraft.cfg file I made in the beginning, copy/paste the original [LIGHTS] section lines back in, save it

and WAAAALaAA!

a perfect contact point setup for my aircraft


can take a while until you get the hang of it, but well worth it for good planes.

Oh and thank you for the technical help... I'll try that some day.