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In records 511 (propeller efficiency) and 512 (Propeller thrust coefficient)are tables witch columns are proppler blade angle and files are advance ratio.What is exactly advance ratio? What's the units in that it expressed?Thanks

Well, I can't even do a 'follow the steps" plane and get it right! Hi folks, Don Moser. I tried to make the Pinewood Derby plane in the FSDS guide. I got it together (duh) and made the model (Beaver) I moved the whole project and rotated it so all the gear sat on the main horizontal line as I do with a house when making a macro. (except I don't tilt the house....YET!) The program generates a completed aircraft and puts it in the FS2002 aircraft folder just fine. When I go to fly the plane, it falls thru the ground and crashes. When I use "slew" to launch it, it lands and turns itself into a sbuterraining mole with wings and finally crashes deep in the ground. What did I m…

I am searching for professional aircraft designers and/or companies that may be interested in working under contract with a major organization to develop extremely detailed aircraft add-ons for commercial software such as MSFS, FLY II, or X-Plane. These add-ons would be for existing complex fixed and rotary wing aircraft. They are to be used as procedural cockpit and scenario trainers for professional pilots. If you are or know of any people or companies that may be able to assist me, please reply or e-mail me at [email protected] and I will go into more details. Thanks for your time.

Hi friends,can anyone help me?In FS Panel Studio (Build 8087 - April 2002) i select a gauge and edit its bitmaps using PSP v6.Once saved bmp's i have to save gauge but suddendly FSPanel Studio tells me that it's not possible to save the gauge because it's used by another application!?!?! Never been able to enjoy to change any gauge. :-(Can anyone talented please explain what's wrong with that procedure?Thanks in advanceLuigi ;-)

Designers,After the first attempt proved unsuccessful partly due to my own lack of commitment :-roll, I have decided to use my more matured skills and knowledge to re-launch FlightCraft as a freeware design group. I'm sure many of you who paid interest to the idea at the start will think this will fail again but rest assured it won't. With the old avsim/flightcraft domain still available to us, I am working on a new site for the group and come to this forum to seek G-Max aircraft designers and painters with experience and/or know-how to paint on to G-Max aircraft, other talents such as flight dynamics engineers and panel designers are also required. Please email me: adam_…

See thread at http://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/DCForumID8/4758.htmlI found that I can stop the deb from idling at red-line if I increase the Y values of the table ID 509 in the .air file.However, any values (of those I have tried)which stop the red-line idle, also haveone of the following unfortunate side effects:1. Insufficient top end power and/or low top-end RPM (like 2400...should be something like 2700),or2. RPM drifts slowly downward below 1000 until motorstops.There may well be some very critical, very narrow, value range thatmay stop the red-line idle without the side effects but I haven'tfound it yet.I was wondering if anybody else has been investigating this probl…

Here is the problem. I need to add these missing polygons. My current method is to use splines to fill the holes and then convert to mesh. I join them to the fuselage and hit autosmooth, but they never smooth correctly. How does everyone else do this? Earl

I'm trying to grab the bank angle value from FS2k2 via FSUIPC.My problem is that the equation to convert the read value from the internal FS format to degrees is blowing out vb.The code is like this: If FSUIPC_Read(fs2kBANK, 4, VarPtr(BankAngleRaw), dwResult) Then retval = FSUIPC_Process(dwResult) If retval Then BankAngle = BankAngleRaw * 360 / (65536 * 65536) Label6.Caption = "-> " & BankAngle End IfBoth BankAngle and BankAngleRaw are declared Long. The equation is generating an overflow error. Ideas?Thanks!-- http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.

I am in search of a good Virtual Cockpit tutorial so that I can start making them. The help section of FSDS doesnt cut the mustard! I have been able to design all of the parts, I am looking on how to implement the guages and what the parts need to be tagged as. If anyone can help me and tell me where to find great tutorials, it sure would be appreciated! Many thanks!!M. Enasha

G'day!I am currently in the middle of my second repaint project and I have run into a snag.I'm repainting Jan Visser's DC-3, N1776 and can't find in the textures the portion right over the windscreen.Help!Heather

So I have mastered the world of AI traffic now its time to move on....what programs do I need to get started with painting my own airplane textures?http://members.cox.net/joshieca/fstimeslink.gif

Ok, well, I'm wondering what the legal implications are (if any!) of modeling a vehicle from a movie - for example, an x-wing fighter - for use in FS 2002, and for free distribution.Any info? No guesses please. I can't afford assumption fees right now :)Andrew

Hi everyone,This is my first GMAX project.... I've spent about 2 weeks on it. At this pace, I'm hoping to be done with the exterior model in another week or two. My question is... does anybody know what the default FS2k2 aircraft come in at with poly count? My model is currently about 2000 polys with optimization and I'm hoping I'm on track. I want an aircraft that doesn't slow FS down to a crawl (i.e. the beautiful but very sluggish Falcon 50). Does this sound right? Thanks for any feedback..3d08e9be706cdec2.jpg

One of the biggest hurdles of Gmax for me is getting around all of the uneeded and unused rollups, menus and features. I understand that you can customize the UI to get around this. My problem is that I don't know what to keep and what to toss. It appears that you can save a custom UI in Gmax as a .CUI file. I have three questions about this: 1) Is it possible to share that file? 2) Has any spent the time to pare down the UI in Gmax to just show the FS2002/CFS2 essential tools (and hidden the junk we'll never need or use)? 3) Is is kosher to ask for a copy of that UI file and would anyone be willing to share? Thanks, Dave

Gudday, As per the toipic above, I have a Problem that I cannot seem to solve! I am currently building a Pilatus PC9/A (FSDS) and have got all other flight dynamics down "pat" except for the Max level Speed. BUT!! When accelerate to 260kts IAS, the aircraft's elevator start's (for want of a better phrase) fluttering. As one uses a M$ Force Feedback 2 Joystick, the elevator motion is very "violent". If the speed is not reduced the aircraft will either dive or climb severly without recovering. Can anyone tell me what if any setting in the airfile that can be changed? Any Help will be greatly appreciated. P.S. The aircraft is being built for an Virtual Aerobatic Team bas…

As I was reading the FS2002 Panel and Gauge SDK, I saw in the Flight Map sample that they are using a named variable called "FS2002 GPS DATA" to exchange data with GPS.Where is this variable defined?Is there any other named variable usable to retrieve other information?Is it possible to get traffic info through a named variable?If someone can answer one of these question, it would help...Thanks in advance !!Eric

Could anyone help me and full fill my dream of owning a Dassualt Falcon 20 in FS2002.If anyone could make one for me I would be grateful.

As I am interested in dabbling a bit in fm I would like to get some pointers to the internals of air files. AirEd gives some hints, but a lot of things need a better explanation.Thanks for any help.

Maybe it is...I don't know.Could an airfile person take a look at my post at the link provided and tell me what you think?http://ftp.avsim.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboa...rum=DCForumID43Many thanks!Joe

Hi guysI am trying to alter the panel .cfg of the Archer such that I can use the excellent GPS contained in the Reality-XP avionics package.I have managed to get the gauge to show as a pop up panel but I am a little disappointed in its size........I would like it to appear bigger. The relevant bit of the panel.cfg looks like this:-[Window03]baCKGROUND_COLOR=2,2,2size_mm=331,104window_size_ratio=1position=0 visible=1 ident=GPS_PANEL gauge00=RealityXP_FlightLine!GPS_GL50,0,0,331 I have experimented with the line size_mm=331,104 but this only seems to give a larger dark background and the gauge does not expand to fill it as I had hoped.Is it possible to amend the file to…

http://www.fs98fabmil.hpg.ig.com.br/projet...lo/buffalo1.JPGhello be what which qun would like to paint the dhc 5 of Denis of silva in canadian armed force

I want to add an object - specifically a FLIR camera to an aircraft in FS2002, I didn't design the aircraft myself, but wondered if it was possible to do it with just the downloaded model.ThanksRodders

I am working on a module for FS2002 and need some help. I don't know if anyone will know this as it is kinda off topic, but I cannot find any SDK for creating actual modules. I need to know the code that I need to put in my dll so that FS2002 will reference it properly.. I would be appreciative if someone could help me find this information.-Korendir

Can someone tell me how to make a Virtual Cockpit for fs2002? I have FSDS,Gmax,Truespace,Aircraft Animator. What is used?? Out of Gmax how do I get the model into FSDS to make it a MDL or how is that process done? I made aircraft for FLY! but never fs.Justin

I'm currently working on my first release. It will be the BAe-146 -100/-200/-300It will be gmax and therefore FS2002 only. How does that sound, I just want to get the opinion of people.Clod