Classic British Flight Sim

Many thanks Dave

Nev

'There is a very slight tendency to swing to port. This is easily corrected and the aircraft can be kept straight by use of throttles until rudder action is obtained'. VERY SLIGHT!! I dunno.. perhaps I'm being harsh but with torque and p-factor turned off.. I expect it to go in a straight line and it doesn't

Dave,
I just bought the Anson and noticed the same symptom. As Keith correctly surmised a few posts back, the tendency to roll to port in this case seems to be due to the passenger load positions. FSX is unrealistically sensitive to any slight load 'out of balance' conditions. As it's set from A2A, the pilot and nav are offset slightly to the left of aircraft centerline to correctly mimic their off-center seating positions. This is what seems to cause that swing to port. If you copy and replace the existing station load positions in the {weight and balance} section of the aircraft.cfg with the text below, it should cure the issue. Well...at least it did on mine!


station_load.0 = 170, 3.5, 0.0, 1.6
station_load.1 = 170, -1.4, 0.0, 1.6
station_load.2 = 170, -5.9, 0.0, 1.6

station_name.0 = "Pilot"
station_name.1 = "Navigator"
station_name.2 = "Radio Operator"

Glad that worked for you Mark. I found that I had this problem when developing my Q6, so I modified the lateral position of the passengers, as well as falsifying the lateral position of the fuel. This was in FS9, so it is a problem in both of the flightsims.
Keith

Tks Mark and Keith

ATB
DaveB

That's very weird, as mine was just fine from this very first test flight:

http://youtu.be/9Mzh24DSzo8

Take-off roll starts at around 2:45 and again at around 10:34

I dont have this model, so really cannot confirm the effect, although as I said I find it does affect other aircraft. My realism settings are usually fully right - does that make a difference?
Keith

Keith/Mark..

Just tried the Anson with those settings and it's bang on.. flies straight as a die. Many thanks

Wonder if this is what upsets the FCS Wellington. I believe the FCS Lancaster did it before it was patched but there's no such patch (AFAIK) for the Wellie-boot. I'll take a look

ATB
DaveB

It may well be for those of us with Acusim, all my light aircraft fly left hand down a bit in P3D, regardless of supplier.

Nev

I'd turned Accu-Feel off for the Anson Nev. Baseline for me.. turn all this stuff off and fly the model. If it goes as it should in 'ideal' conditions.. then crank the 'realism' (cough) up. If it's flying all over the shop straight out of the box with the sim at 'girlie' settings.. my general feeling is that something isn't quite right. I'd not realised that something as innocent as the extra weight of the nav on the port side could have such a pronounced effect on the way the aircraft flies but as the guy's have said.. FSX seems very sensitive to this.. perhaps over sensitive. In the real Anson.. you'd have had a certain amount of p-torque to battle with.. I doubt the nav would have made a noticeable difference. In FSX, we have the luxury of turning p-torque off leaving the few pounds the nav weighs to worry about

ATB
DaveB

Scorpius wrote:It may well be for those of us with Acusim, all my light aircraft fly left hand down a bit in P3D, regardless of supplier.

Nev

Send Leslie Phillips on holiday Nev, then job sorted


Graham