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Ideas toward Drop-Tank drag, besides spoilers

fsxar177

fsxar177

Long-Time Enthusiast
Maybe this is OT:

But within FSX .xml coding, any ideas toward modeling physics, adding drag to the drop tank? Something to key besides the spoilers...

Need to gain 20-30kts, and a hair of lift when I drop that empty tank... the rest of the code is ready... any ideas?

- Joseph
 
Very interesting. It would seem you'd have to develop a work-around for not deploying flaps.0... Hmm..
 
Alright...

The best solution I seem to come up with, is to set up some L vars, say percentages of a total #, and that # being drag, and then taking that added for my whole #, and dividing...

For a rough example
Cowl Flaps - 25
Canopy Open - 20
Drop Tank - 30

Total 75/100

So In 16K (16383) which is the 100% mark for deflection, my WHOLE # would be 12287.25 ...

I have not used L VARS much, so my question is, where do I start?

The goal would be to pull, for example with the drop tank, the 30 off of my 75.. saving the other 45 for the other operations. Any ideas?

- Joseph
 
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