Hi guys, this is my first post here and I desperately need some help, any advise would be very much appreciated.

I created the British army no.1 from scratch and near the stage of finishing it, however I came across a huge problem.

I found it impossible to keep a level flight, it is doing phugoid all the time. The canard has very little effect (which could be realistic) and more importantly it react inversely to the control, i.e. stick forward gives little bit of lift.

I am a beginner in modeling aircraft and the software I used are FSEdit and notepad. Please take a few minutes to fly my aircraft and give me some advise.  

aircraft files http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LT71NARU

Its this some kind of Joke >?

First ITS impossible you can assemble even the most simple object (A box) with FSedit and Notepad, you need FS9-SDK or fSX-SDK utilities and most important Gmax , 3d max , FSDS to works and export and compile into a mdl with IT

second YES the plane has a huge problem ,IT needs to be "RESET X Form" the surface illuminated are backwards

Third isn't this the Wright Brothers Airplane?

     





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There is a complete model with VC and a hole Master Piece included in FS2004 which also works in FSX here it is ,I thought was the same model but is not..Sorry but is so similar

     

and its diffucult to fly as the real life First plane made,Like your model

You can use the air and aircraft files from this model But You have a worth proble which I describe above

Ok, Look at the photos above , again ..

 See the ilumination, Can you see that the wings and elevator the Lights come from Below ? is Like if the Sun were below the plane?

If you can't notice this ,I do , and that is easy to fix

first made a backup of the gmax like the way you have then follow select all the objects with this issue (Wing and tail I guess) then follow the number as I said here

     

Export the model again and see if it shows well (Sometimes it has to be transformated first , Can be shown now all twisted or maybe Not) But the Light should be coming from the sky now and not from the ground..

Alejandro Rhodes wrote on Apr 16^th, 2009 at 11:36am:


Thanks, you made a really good point 

But my question is really based on the flight dynamics....

Please don't get the huff Alex. No offence intended. I'm only trying to help.

Alejandro Rhodes wrote on Apr 16^th, 2009 at 12:31pm:

Your point was quite valid & I'm sure it's appreciated. I would fix that aircraft myself if I knew how. FS flight dynamics was always a black art to me.

Travis wrote on Apr 16^th, 2009 at 2:52pm:


I started with the Wright Flyer CFG. I didnt know that the AIR file have effect on the flight dynamics. Maybe its worth while to take a look. What software should I use to explore the AIR file?

And phugoid is an aircraft motion, basically the aircraft bounces up and down and changes speed. You can find a full describtion from wiki

Thank you

Oh, I see.  The conventional term for phugoid is porpoising.  Anyway, I'll take a look and see what I can do.

There are several programs out there for messing with the airfile, such as AirEd and AirWrench.  AW is payware, though.  AirEd is probably what you would want to start out with.  Do a google search for it, or search here at SimV.

Downloaded and working on it.  Already made significant improvements!  Although I may need to actually start with a fresh version.  There seem to be some anomalies that I can't find the fix for.  But it's in the works!

I don't suppose you'd be willing to send me the actual Gmax file?  I could really use it to figure out some of the more technical details of the aircraft geometry.

And Alex was right: you need to fix that lighting issue.

Hi Travis, just wondering what changes you have made to the cfg to make it fly better? I should try it out myself. Thanks!