+Tailspin Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 (edited) I noticed both Fokker DVIIs doing a lot of "porpoising" in auto pilot or while using wing leveler. If you'll look in the DATA.INIs of the planes you will see a value for PitchDamper=0.3. Changing that to 0.6 solves the problem. OOOOPS....Sorry folks. I lost a decimal point. That should have been 0.3 and 0.6 as in TENTHS and not whole numbers. :slow(en): Edited January 5, 2007 by Tailspin Quote
MJmorrow Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 I noticed both Fokker DVIIs doing a lot of "porpoising" in auto pilot or while using wing leveler. If you'll look in the DATA.INIs of the planes you will see a value for PitchDamper=3. Changing that to 6 solves the problem. Thank you for the heads up Tailspin. I am just learning this stuff and without this forum.... well I think I would accidently erase my hard drive, or bring the NY City traffic light grid down! Quote
+Tailspin Posted January 4, 2007 Author Posted January 4, 2007 Man I am glad you fixed that Fokker..... Yeah, that Fokker was jumping up and down like crazy. Quote
+Tailspin Posted January 4, 2007 Author Posted January 4, 2007 Thank you for the heads up Tailspin. I am just learning this stuff and without this forum.... well I think I would accidently erase my hard drive, or bring the NY City traffic light grid down! Yer, welcome. Quote
+pcpilot Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 Yeah, Ive actually noticed a mild porposing since the game came out on most of the aircraft. Ill try this fix as soon as I get a chance. Thanks for the heads up tailspin... Quote
+Tailspin Posted January 4, 2007 Author Posted January 4, 2007 Hi PC...Must be the new FMs which I think are an improvement. I noticed all the planes have the PitchDamper= numbers added. I didn't notice that before. Quote
pcelt Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 Apologies for a basic question but I am new to this sim ----where and how do I find the data.inis for each plane . Many thanks for any clarification and explanation on this. Quote
+Gr.Viper Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 Get this http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autom...mp;showfile=343 Use it to extract Fokkers' _DATA.ini from ObjectData.CAT in game's Objects folder After tweaking place the modified ini file into corresponding(there are two types of Fokker in game) folder in Objects/Aircraft folder Quote
+sinbad Posted January 5, 2007 Posted January 5, 2007 Get this http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autom...mp;showfile=343Use it to extract Fokkers' _DATA.ini from ObjectData.CAT in game's Objects folder After tweaking place the modified ini file into corresponding(there are two types of Fokker in game) folder in Objects/Aircraft folder You mean objects/aircraft/TYPE correct? I noticed the patch deleted all data.ini files from the individual aircraft folders. Quote
+Gr.Viper Posted January 5, 2007 Posted January 5, 2007 objects/aircraft/TYPE Yep. And Readme for patch mentions which ini files will be deleted and suggests doing a backup. Quote
+Tailspin Posted January 5, 2007 Author Posted January 5, 2007 Well, the old aircraft data.inis weren't much use anymore anyway. Quote
Showtime_100 Posted January 5, 2007 Posted January 5, 2007 (edited) Is this fix for the Fokkers only ... I was lookin' at the AlbatrosDI and the pitch damper for that model is set 0.1 not 3 and on the Fokkers it's set at 0.3 so i was just curious before I started screwin' around here ;-) Thanks ~ Edited January 5, 2007 by Showtime_100 Quote
+Gr.Viper Posted January 5, 2007 Posted January 5, 2007 AlbatrosDI? The one by bortdafarm? It was made prior to the patch and is based on old Albatros .ini. Quote
+Tailspin Posted January 5, 2007 Author Posted January 5, 2007 Oooops...all the values should be 0.x as in TENTHS. Sorry for the mistake. Change the Fokkers to 0.6. I arrived at that figure by trial and error testing. For the other planes add one tenth at a time until you get the desired results. Not sure but, big changes may affect flight control so take it slow and increase only enough to smooth it out. As always YMMV. Quote
Showtime_100 Posted January 5, 2007 Posted January 5, 2007 Thanks Tailspin for the clarification ~ Quote
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