Ito's Early Phantom

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burcham8

Charter Member
Guys,

I installed Ito-San's really good FH-1 Phantom in my FSX install. It flies great. However, when it is stopped at the end of the runway or parked, it wants to pivot around a point (even when the engines are off) and no amount of rudder input will stop it. Anyone else ever seen this.

BTW, I am using the FSX install with the RSFG_Phantom model of Mark Rooks.

As Andy Griffith might have said, "Curious, curious, curious!" :isadizzy:

Marc
 
Curious indeed. I tried the Mark Rooks FSX conversion and got the same strange rotation you got. Setting and releasing the brakes seems to change the rotation left or right. I don't know what to tell you, except a couple oh-by-the-way items: (1) You need to add tailhook, launch_assistance and LSO entries to the aircraft.cfg file for carrier ops and to raise/lower the hook, and (2) Also add a folding_wings cfg entry to activate the folding wings. Why not try Paul Clawson's FSX-native FH-1?
 
Based on a quick read, it sounds like a contact point/cg problem to me. I say that because I had another plane I had installed that was being developed for FS9 and it had the same problem. Once I corrected both of those issues the problem went away. I offer that for reference, since PutPut's plane should work fine. :)
 
Here is a 'better' (10 minute tweak) set of cnt pts. I left the old values in for comparison.

[contact_points]
point.0=1, 14.00, 0.00, -5.60, 1181.1, 0, 1.442, 55.92, 0.2, 4.5, 1.0, 5.0, 5.0, 0, 0.0, 0.0
point.1=1, -1.50, -5.58, -5.60, 1574.8, 1, 1.442, 0.00, 0.4, 2.5, 0.9, 5.0, 5.0, 2, 0.0, 0.0
point.2=1, -1.50, 5.58, -5.60, 1574.8, 2, 1.442, 0.00, 0.4, 2.5, 0.9, 5.0, 5.0, 3, 0.0, 0.0
//
//point.0=1, 40.00, 0.00, -6.30, 1181.1, 0, 1.442, 55.92, 0.8, 2.5, 0.9, 5.0, 5.0, 0, 0.0, 0.0
//point.1=1, -7.75, -8.58, -5.90, 1574.8, 1, 1.442, 0.00, 1.0, 2.5, 0.9, 5.0, 5.0, 2, 0.0, 0.0
//point.2=1, -7.75, 8.58, -5.90, 1574.8, 2, 1.442, 0.00, 1.0, 2.5, 0.9, 5.0, 5.0, 3, 0.0, 0.0
//
point.3=2, -14.17, -47.33, 0.00, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 5, 0.0, 0.0
point.4=2, -14.17, 47.33, 0.00, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 6, 0.0, 0.0
point.5=2, -54.00, 0.00, 2.83, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 9, 0.0, 0.0
point.6=2, 42.67, 0.00, -3.75, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 4, 0.0, 0.0
max_number_of_points=21
static_pitch=0.000
static_cg_height= 6.000 //o=6.10
gear_system_type=0

Here is a graphic of where the cnt pts (aparently-judging by dust cloud) are in relation to the actual wheels. No bueno.
Chuck B
Napamule
 
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