Dancats Polikarpov I-16 Uploaded

As far as flying skill is concerned when you start down the runway with your stick full forward, and the plane pulls straight up into a low altitude stall anyway, I'm not sure what more masterful flying you could have done to save yourself. ;)

The 40% fuel tidbit is much appreciated, as she now flies quite nicely.

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Looking in the air file I see two fuel tanks. One is located at +1.0 (41.7 gal) and the other is at -5.0 (57.5 gal). From the above diagram the two fuel tanks appear to be over and under, and not fore and aft of each other. They also appear to be positioned at the center of lift of the wing to minimize trim changes as they drain out.

One simple way to fix the black prop if you don't have a hex editor is to make a copy of the existing dds prop file and give it the other name.
 
dancat said:
it is a BETA after all and I never claimed it was perfect.
as for the auto start, it has nothing to do with the autoignition.
it's done through the normalized_starter_torque in the aircraft cfg.
I have a feeling ww2 airplanes aren't like my Saab and fire up the second you hit the starter so I made it more life like but change what you will.
Clive, I have no plans to do anything with the fw-189 but if you're interested you can have it.
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dancat, what a nice plane this is. ty. the FM are all-right with me. I fixed the prop by c/p and put a b.dds along with the s.dds worked fine.
the autoignition can be fix the why people like as you say. must of us make the planes fly the way we want anyway. That is the great thing about this sim.

watch out for a video of this little nat befor to long. lol

great work!!!!!!!!

flyer01:salute:
 
dancat or anyone that might know, nether the 24 or the 28 are showing damage when shot. Is there a fix for this?

flyer 01
 
Mine get really pretty holes in it Look at the post on the missions the holes are there..
For some reason when a Me 109 shoots at it and Hits the I-16 They get Holes?? LOL..LOL..
I enjoy flying this Bird..LOL..LOL..
<<<S>>>
 
HouseHobbit said:
Mine get really pretty holes in it Look at the post on the missions the holes are there..
For some reason when a Me 109 shoots at it and Hits the I-16 They get Holes?? LOL..LOL..
I enjoy flying this Bird..LOL..LOL..
<<<S>>>
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The plane in your pictures are not the same plane that I downloaded. Could you send me the plane that is in your photo?

flyer01
 
Major Magee, that's what I call information! I'd like the I-16 to be flyable at varying fuel loads, but not to be obviously unauthentic. I'm less worried now about fiddling with the .air file, since placing the tanks at the CoG (as the Q&D fix did for me) is not so unhistoric after all!

I'm not gregoryp, or Nacht, but when I've finished my rough fiddling with the FM and contact points, I'll post the results here for anyone who wants 'em.

Dancat, was the tailwheel steerable or just a substitute for the skid on earlier marks of the I-16? Would like to know.
 
I think the tailwheel was steerable though not positive.
I never found any good pics or info on that.
I would like to see your FM for the plane when done.
no offense to Lewis but his FM is way off.
the plane did not have an eighteen cylinder 2000hp engine, 3 blade prop, 42' wing span etc.
plus the contact points are all gone now and the prop doesn't bend when it hits the ground but the plane blows up.
the prop diameter doesn't add up to the new contact point.
it does however sit on the ground better than it did.
the reason the original contact points were so strong was to counteract the sim blowing every plane up over a damaged tailwheel or wing tip!
I really hate cfs3.....
 
Yes the FM was actually a donor air file from another aircraft and it was for the old model which was also a bit difficult to fly. I just offered it up for those who have a hard time flying it.
 
dancat said:
it is a BETA after all and I never claimed it was perfect.
as for the auto start, it has nothing to do with the autoignition.
it's done through the normalized_starter_torque in the aircraft cfg.
I have a feeling ww2 airplanes aren't like my Saab and fire up the second you hit the starter so I made it more life like but change what you will.
Clive, I have no plans to do anything with the fw-189 but if you're interested you can have it.
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So how do you activate the normalized_starter_torque t get her up and running?
 
Open up the aircraft.cfg file and scroll down to this line: "normalized_starter_torque = 0.034"

Set it to that value and the auto start should function, if not you increase the number until it does, i.e. .054, .064 .074 etc. The thing to remember is if the modeller timmed the start up animation correctly then it will coincide with the start up sound files. So if you increase the number too much it will start up well ahead of the start sound sequence. Like one of those old kung fu movies where the actor's mouth is moving seconds before you hear any sound.
 
The changes I made to the FM to get it flying better was to move the longitudinal location of both tanks to 29.0 I also noticed that the horizontal and vertical tail surface areas were over by a factor of 10 (24.4 versus 2.44 and 13.7 versus 1.37), and the wing area was a little under spec (11.72 versus 14.54)

There may be other factors that need attention but these adjustments at least got be up and fighting.
 
... a bit off topic, but dancat did you really mention a
FW-189 in your hangar ???
It would really be well appreciated. :wiggle:
yours wolfger
 
Dancat,i am thoroughly enjoying your Polikarpov's and i am actively looking forward to your next releases.thank you for continuing to create excellent models for our enjoyment.
 
thanks pete (and others) for the kind words.
pretty picky crowd for a freeware beta don't ya think??
maybe I'll just keep my models to myself and someone else can give ya their work so ya can bitch about.
 
Dancat,
I agree that your I-16's are GREAT aircraft..
That is why I built the missions..
Even if some have some trouble from it, I would humbly ask
Please Sir don't let the detractors discourage you..
I know you have a Gift in Building these aircraft..
Something I am trying to learn,
And with your Gift and ability, It would be a GREAT LOSS to many here if you desided not to post them...
I hope Sir that you realize the wonderful time I and Many have had with your aircraft..
To just say Thank You doen't seem enough..
Anything I may do too help out Just ask..
<<<S>>>
 
Jon you know what they say, "you can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time". As Owen said though some of us are always thankful and we greatly appreciate your work. I don't think most of the complainers have any idea how much work and effort go into developing a model. For those of us who are thankful we hope to continuing seeing your very excellent aircraft released into the community.
 
Hey, dancat...

I've been building stuff for CFS, starting with version one, and for the most part of building 'freeware' (that's free, for anyone who doesn't understand the word), you usually will hear alot more from the complainers, a few words of praise, and everybody else doesn't say anything.

The main thing you've got going is...at least you try, and doing a fair job at it! If you are enjoying what your doing, keep doing it, and the heck with everybody else. Yeah, it's totally up to you, if you decide to share.

When you do share (freely, I'll add again), and they wanna bitch about it, they have an easy cure. Tell 'em like I do...if you don't like it...delete it!

Hehe...yeah, I get a little galled sometimes.

cheers
 
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