Hi All,

I have been using FS9 for a long time now, first post on here though. A splendid forum it is too I might add.

I have gone from knowing 'zilch' zero...nada about A.I & adding flight plans etc, to now being familiar with doing all that quite easily.


One thing I can't work out though, of all the models I have installed over time, the aardvark 737's (all variety of type) will simply not land at any aiport. I tend to watch them, for instance after I have landed and completed my own trek, & what I see is that the aircraft capture the localiser and turn towards the runway, but then it seems as if it's going too fast, which causes a dip in altitude, and never quite captures the glideslope, as it gets closer to the runway the 'dips' are greater and greater, resulting in a go around for another attempt... I have no idea why!

I have checked the CFG. file and the cruise speed/altitude appear to be 'normal' for that type? is there something else that needs a tweak? as I say, this only happens to the 737's and nothing else. 

Any suggestions or advice much appreciated.

I'll try doing that & see what happens.

It's comical to watch them 'bounce' towards the runway and end up halfway down the tarmac before going around again, but I'd prefer to see them land like all of the others.

While I'm on the subject of A.I, does anybody have any idea if its possible to tweak the CFG. files of A.I traffic to make them flare a little more before touchdown? they really seem to throw them down hard! only to make things a tiny bit more realistic. Or am I expecting too much? & I'm sure many have noticed that on take off, the A.I models do not maintain a constant pitch up alittude after rotating, they tend to rotate, lower the nose a little, then pitch up again before heading left or right, their behaviour just doesn't look quite right.

I have had some success taming ai landings, ('tho I haven't worked with this AIA737), by tweaking the following lines:  

[flight_tuning]
cruise_lift_scalar=1.0          <---lift in level flight
parasite_drag_scalar=1.0    <---aerodynamic form and skin effect drag
induced_drag_scalar=1.0    <---Lift and AoA drag
........
1.0 is the default value for all.

Increasing the parasitic drag  has given me good results in most cases. Your case may differ and will require trial and error.

This AIA-FDE article indicates that the drag scalers are reduced. You could try bumping them up toward 1.0 to see if it doesn't give a gentler touchdown.

A couple of resources that might help in your quest, are the:

Aircraft Container SDK-explaination of the aircraft.cfg file entries.

Traffic Toolbox SDK-the traffic Explorer (available from the Alt Menu while in the flight screen) allows you to view any selected ai. Similar to the 'chase window', but you can select the ac directly rather than cycling thru ac in the 'chase window'.

Dave