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Fix to F-18 landing gear fix?

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wilycoyote4:

--- Quote from: Voodoo on September 05, 2008, 04:05:19 am ---Thanks for the detailed observations, chaps. It was very useful poring over them looking for clues that might help resolve this problem.

Wily,
The other problem you mentioned, of the launch bar disengaging from the shuttle, is directly related to the degree to which the model is tilted by the gear modifications. I got that particular problem only very occasionally with the alternative settings but if I compressed the gear just a tiny bit further, it got a lot worse...and setting the gear compression so it looked as low as the Captain Sim F18D model made this problem constant. A marginal bit of tweaking the gear contact points in the aircraft.cfg file should eliminate that for you. Try altering the fourth parameter from -7.60 to -7.70 in the following lines:
point.1=1, -35.50,  -4.90, -7.60, 1600, 1, 0.6349,  0.0, 1.2, 1.6, 0.5456,  3.9,  3.9, 2, 0.0, 0.0
point.2=1, -35.50,   4.90, -7.60, 1600, 2, 0.6349,  0.0, 1.2, 1.6, 0.5456,  3.7,  3.7, 3, 0.0, 0.0
and see if that helps.

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I'm doing flights now and it works.  Full AB possible and the Hornet sits waiting for cat launch as it should.  I'm using fuel at 97% to 99% as full AB is so powerful.

Thanks, that's great, and I've learned a bit more.  Hope others have also.

Screeny of cat 2 with AB in carrier practice mission with successful cat launch.

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cfschris:
You need to install the AB effects fix, wiley :P

wilycoyote4:

--- Quote from: cfschris on September 05, 2008, 09:29:01 pm ---You need to install the AB effects fix, wiley :P

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That's news to me.  Thanks for the info.  Ok, I searched this forum and I have it now.

Thanks, cfschris and voodoo, I am certainly learning a lot here.

Orion:
Hi everyone, I believe this is my first post here :).

I've made my own mod for the gear, and it seems to work, although I'm not on full realism.

Here are the lines:

point.1=1, -35.50,  -4.90, -7.5, 1600, 1, 0.6349,  0.0, 1.2, 1.5, 0.6,  3.9,  3.9, 2, 0.0, 0.0
point.2=1, -35.50,   4.90, -7.5, 1600, 2, 0.6349,  0.0, 1.2, 1.5, 0.6,  3.7,  3.7, 3, 0.0, 0.0
//point.1=1, -35.50,  -4.90, -7.40, 1600, 1, 0.6349,  0.0, 0.4000, 2.5, 0.5456,  3.9,  3.9, 2, 0.0, 0.0
//point.2=1, -35.50,   4.90, -7.40, 1600, 2, 0.6349,  0.0, 0.4000, 2.5, 0.5456,  3.7,  3.7, 3, 0.0, 0.0

(commented out are the originals)

Feel free to try those out, hope these work ;).

Enjoy!

Orion

Edit (Feb 8 2014): After five and a half years... I finally reworked the contact points again. :P  Hopefully these are a bit better:

point.1=1, -35.50,  -4.90, -6.8, 1600, 1, 0.6349,  0.0, 0.4000, 1.5, 0.5456,  3.9,  3.9, 2, 0.0, 0.0
point.2=1, -35.50,   4.90, -6.8, 1600, 2, 0.6349,  0.0, 0.4000, 1.5, 0.5456,  3.7,  3.7, 3, 0.0, 0.0
;point.1=1, -35.50,  -4.90, -7.40, 1600, 1, 0.6349,  0.0, 0.4000, 2.5, 0.5456,  3.9,  3.9, 2, 0.0, 0.0
;point.2=1, -35.50,   4.90, -7.40, 1600, 2, 0.6349,  0.0, 0.4000, 2.5, 0.5456,  3.7,  3.7, 3, 0.0, 0.0

Orion:
Bump.

Anyone try those?

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