Simviation Forum - numbers/code question

	Search the archive:

Simviation Main Site | Site Search | Upload Images

Simviation Forum › Current Flight Simulator Series › Adding Aircraft Traffic (AI) & Gates › numbers/code question

(Moderators: Mitch., Fly2e, ozzy72, beaky, Clipper, JBaymore, Bob70, BigTruck)

‹ Previous Topic | Next Topic ›

Pages: 1

numbers/code question (Read 262 times)

Nov 3^rd, 2005 at 12:09pm

Censport Offline
Colonel
Aw, c'mon TC!

Posts: 320

When I have the "aircraft_(plan).txt. file open, the planes are listed by the number they're assigned, then another code number, then the description. Example;

AC#1,120,"Douglas DC-3 Paint 1"

What I'm wondernig is how is that number, such as 120 for the DC-3s, assigned? I'm wanting to add downloaded aircraft such as the 560 Twin Commander to my AI, but don't know how to determine what number to put into the code for the aircraft.txt file.

Does anyone know how to figure that out?

IP Logged

Reply #1 - Nov 3^rd, 2005 at 8:37pm

dave3cu Offline
Colonel
Procrastinate now, don't
put it off.
3CU, Northern Wisconsin, USA

Gender:
Posts: 3077

AC#4 , 477 , "Boeing 737-400 Paint1"

Aircraft Cruise Aircraft title
tag speed

Quote:

Cruise speed:
This is the cruise speed (TAS) given in the aircraft specifications. It can be found in aircraft manuals or other reference material. Note that this number does not determine the actual cruise speed of AI aircraft, that is based on a cruise speed parameter included in the aircraft model’s aircraft.cfg file. This number is used only by the compiler to compute the trip time for the flight so it can come up with arrival times and sector mapping for flight plans that don’t use fixed arrival times.

Quoted directly from the TTools-Help file.

Cruise speed can be found in the aircraft.cfg, [General] or [Reference Speeds] section.

Dave

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation. Igor Sikorsky

I intend to live forever....so far, so good. Steven Wright

You know....you can just rip up a to-do list.

IP Logged

Reply #2 - Nov 4^th, 2005 at 10:43am

Censport Offline
Colonel
Aw, c'mon TC!

Posts: 320

We need a "d'oh!" emoticon!

Thanks!

IP Logged

Reply #3 - Nov 4^th, 2005 at 11:30am

wji Offline
Colonel

Posts: 1644

"We need a "d'oh!" emoticon!"

Not really . . . we just need the Readme file on our desktop so no matter what question is asked here, we click on it, copy and paste the answer, and -- besides learning something new for ourselves -- feel really satisified we've helped someone with their problem.

It look like this:

Thanks to Lee Swory for writing the best manuals in cyberspace

1.) Top icon takes one to all ttools traffic folders
2.) Starts TTools 202
3.) Answers any question(s)

Smiple? Looks smiple enough . . . for any additional help we always have SimV forums

P.S. All-of-the-above applies to any software

PhotoShop 7 user

IP Logged

Reply #4 - Nov 4^th, 2005 at 1:53pm

RobertVdb Offline
Colonel
Belgium

Gender:
Posts: 14

Hi lads,
As I have mentioned it here several times before, I have a tutorial where you can find the answers of most of the questions concerning AI (see also FAQs at the bottom)
http://users.skynet.be/robflsim/RFWAI2en.html
Cheers
Rob

Robert Vandenberghe

IP Logged

Reply #5 - Nov 5^th, 2005 at 11:46am