Hello Jimi,
thanks for the update!
In the panel.cfg under the FCS section there is a G_Limiter gauge listed, but no xml file seems to be present in the FCS folder? Am I missing something here?
Some feedback concerning dry and wet thrust:
- I noticed that in .air file at No. 1523 "Turbine variable Inlet" is set to True. As far as I understand it it should be set to False in case of the FA-18. This setting had a huge impact when I accidently changed it within AirEd, doing my own mods and could not figure out why the aircaft suddenly had so litte power at high altitude above Mach 1+ speeds. When I noticed and reset it, things went back to what I expected.
- How did you come up with a fuel_flow_gain of 0.903 value? As I found no information on that so I left it unchanged in my mod.
- Doing some calculations on the F404-GE-402 for the inlet_area I came to a value of 4.1848 ft2 confirming to be very close to the original 4.2895 ft2. But it all depends on how fsx/the sim defines engine nacelle inlet area: a) nacelle inlet of the engine stand alone/blank, or b) nacelle inlet of the fuselage provided to the engine, for in RL they work in conjuction with each other? Lacking further detailed information, I decided to leave it as it is, to the original value here.
Length/Diameter (overall): 158.8/34.8 IN
Dry Weight: 2,282 LBS
Thrust (DRY): 11,950 LBS
Thrust (A/B): 17,700 LBS
SFC (DRY): 0.676
- What do you think of the following setup? It perfecly matches performance at high altitude... but I am not sure how realistic it is for subsonic speed and acceleration at sea level.
Performance (At Maximum Takeoff Weight) F/A-18C/D:
- Max level speed: More than Mach 1.8
- Max speed, intermediate power: More than Mach 1.0
- Acceleration from 460knots to 920knots at 35,000ft: under 2 min (35,000ft: 460knots = Mach 0.79 ; 920knots = Mach 1.59)
See references posted here:
http://what-when-how.com/military-weapons/fighters-military-weapons/http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=5igml7o8t6atmkmepmte2oadm4&topic=6944.435Peter
(.cfg and .air provided below)
P.S. As I have not yet come up with a satisfying conclusion concerning the cp business, here is the latest update I have done so far, in case you are interested.