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FS2004/FSX Gulfstream 4 flying crooked. (Read 1012 times)
May 9th, 2008 at 7:26am

ND6849C   Offline
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Plane needs an attitude adjustment!

After taking off at whatever airport and engage the autopilot, this plane stays on course, but is tilted so that the scenery line is higher on the left than it is on the right.  I've not really seen this problem in any other aircraft that I have used and wonder if there's something in the aircraft.cfg file that I can edit to fix this.

This particular aircraft has a couple of other glitches that are not nearly as annoying.  But I'd like to fix this one on my own.

Thanks
 

---ND6849C using FSX Standard on an Insignia D400a Pentium 4-2.8mhz-2 gig RAM-256MB under Windows XP (SP3) using  an ATI Radeon 9250 graphics card.  (and yet it works! ...kind of.  LOL)
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Reply #1 - May 9th, 2008 at 1:06pm

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This why flying while intoxicated isn't allowed.   Grin 

One idea is to make sure your fuel is balanced on right and left.  Maybe even a crosswind?
 
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Reply #2 - May 10th, 2008 at 8:51am

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There wasn't crosswind, unbalanced fuel, or alcoholism involved with this plane that looked like it was a dog being asked who it was endorsing for President in 2008.

Actually, I found the answer when I compared it to the autopilot settings in a G5 that I have.  I just went with the G5 settings that seemed to relate to the problem and it worked!

The G4 also had problems with the autothrottle, and there was a workaround with the n1 setting, but I fixed the autothrottle switch.  It also had the mouse rollover for the autobrakes available, but clicking plus or minus didn't do anything.  I got that fixed, but not the autobrakes disarm light...still working on that.

Because I fixed these annoying problems with the plane doesn't mean I'm a great aircraft developer.  In this case it just means I can "cut and paste" with the best of them.   Grin

The author did put in a very cool feature for guys.  The female co-pilot has been given some gigantic....uh...well, you know....but I can't find the keyboard shortcut to cop-a-feel! Undecided
 

---ND6849C using FSX Standard on an Insignia D400a Pentium 4-2.8mhz-2 gig RAM-256MB under Windows XP (SP3) using  an ATI Radeon 9250 graphics card.  (and yet it works! ...kind of.  LOL)
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Reply #3 - May 10th, 2008 at 10:27am

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NOW we know why the G4 was flying ... unbalanced....
 

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Reply #4 - May 10th, 2008 at 4:54pm

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Felix/FFDS wrote on May 10th, 2008 at 10:27am:
NOW we know why the G4 was flying ... unbalanced....



I knew there had to be a reason.   Wink
 
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