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Getting the AI to land with out crashing?

Achim
I'm ony working in the aircraft it self not missions or any other files.

Bearcat
I've taken the best 2 .air files that work and are close in weight to the SBD-2 (6675 lbs empty). F4F4 (5785 lbs empty) and F6F3 (9042 lbs empty). The F4F4 unchanged can't land. The "porpoising" is bad and all but 2 crash short. With the F6F3 2 crash short.

When I tried to change the main wing, fuel, engine and prop. The F4F4 is is okay. Some times all 8 make it but other time 1 will nose dive down. I can see that the AI has the elevators full down right before it hits the water and 1 or 2 will dip into the water do to the porpoising and sink/explode.

The F6F3 is not better as the porpoising get 2 every time at low Alt and 1 or 2 more go nose diving right in with elevators full down.

It seem like any thing in between 5785 (F4F4) lbs to 9042 (F6F3) can't land. The George at 5858 lbs dose porpoising and wing rolls left to right but dose land everytime without crashing. The F4U at 8873 lbs has porpoising that get 2 at low Alt and 1 or 2 more go nose diving right in with elevators full down.
 
I'm out of ideas. Below is the air file and aircraft.cfg I have for the SBD-2. The air file is the F4F4 with main wing, fuel, engine and prop changed to the SBD-2. The aircraft.cfg is the stock SBD-2 with a tailhook, view and light for OH model. The MOI and flight tuning numbers are stock.

View attachment 93643
 
Allen,

I test-flew Munda (stock airbases.dat entries) and the very stock Wildcat landed without a flaw (see the attached picture).
Set-up: Start 11.8 nauticals out of Munda; waypoint 2 = 5.7 nauticals out of Munda, 2000 ft, 150 knots, heading 254°. At the position where to begin the approach (determined by the airbase.dat) 5000 meters out of the centre of the runway it decended to 350 meters (airbases.dat entry), it touched down at 500 feet (I understand that this are feet and not meters) out of the centre of the runway, it stopped the roll 250 feet beyond the centre of the rundway, turned right and stopped.
Where to start the approach (that doesn't show in MB), to touch down and to stopp the AI gets from the airbases.dat entries.

If your AIs plunge into the water (your red area) it could be caused by wrong entries in the airbases.dat. So, please, check those.





Cheers

Achim
 
It is not the .dat. The stock A6M2, A6M5, F4F4 and F6F3 land fine at Munda.
 
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