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Mystery of the disappearing Drop Tank...Help!

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steve1956

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I just had a problem with a CFS2 object and I wonder if anyone "out there" has had this type of problem or can tell me what is happening.

Some time ago, I downloaded Akemi Mizoguchi's Ki-46-III "Dinah" photo recon plane. Today, I edited the DP file and added--or tried to add a drop tank. The "standard production article" in 1944-1945 had a large drop tank slung under the fuselage on long-range missions.

Working from another aircraft model, (Mizoguchi's C6N1 "Myrt"), I soon had a pylon and a 600-liter tank in place under the Ki-46 as it is displayed in the Aircraft type and config window(this is a preliminary to a Free Flight session). I used the DP file editor and did a little experimentation to make it all look right. Up to this point, it all went pretty smoothly.

I figured that I was "set". I was wrong.

When I started a Free Flight mission, the drop tank disappeared. I went back, made sure that I had selected the configuration with the drop tank, but once again, when I opened up the mission on an airfield, no drop tank was visible.

I checked the DP file, but everything there appeared to be okay. I also checked the AIR file with an AIR file editor I have, but I could find no parameter there for "drop tank-Yes" or something of that sort.

I downloaded the 600-liter drop tank from Kawauso's Hermitage website some time ago and it works well with other aircraft types. I checked for a "filelist" file in the OBJECTSDP folder and I didn't find one. (If I had, I would have backed it up, erased it and allowed the CFS2 executive to rebuild it with, hopefully, the drop tank added.)

Does anyone have any experience with this type of problem or any insight as to why it is happening?
 
Air File............

It appears that the air file for the Ki-46 doesn't allow for drop tanks (see attached jpg)

I don't know how to hex edit or get rid of the the "variable not part of this file"....so

What I usually do is go get a airfile (like for my lysander) that allows for more options and drop tanks and..... pain in the arse......blank out all the info and transfer the Ki-46 data to the blank.........and then fill in drop tank info......

Just be ready for typo's..............and some patients...........looking for typing transfer errors.....

If you want more than one drop tank............find a P-51 cfs2 air file that has a wing drop tanks that work

There may be a aircraft.cfg fix........................ but I don't use the aircraft.cfg to do the work of the air file.
 
With Aired

Hi steve1956,
If you have Aired, which can be found at Simviaton, open up the air file from the stock CFS2 Hellcat. This one has a single belly drop tank. As the pic's show, left to right, click on the numbered entry shown. Copy it to clipboard with a right click. Then open the Ki-46 air file....right click on the last Fuel record....and add from clipboard. You should now have the number 534 External Tank record in the Ki-46 air file. Exit and save. This was previously posted, but the last forum gremlins wiped it out. Thought I should post it again. BTW, after the new record shows in the air file you can edit the amount of fuel, and the location also. Remember to keep the No. 1 for external.
Hope this helps...:gameon:
 
Thank-you, kameraden...

Thank-you, DVSLATS and ROCKSTER2. I was hoping that someone had previously run into this problem and my suspicion was that the AIR file for the Ki-46 had a critical parameter of the type that you both described.

I don't think that I have the lastest version of that AIR file editor, DVSLATS, so I'll have to download that.

Happy Holidays, everyone out there in the Flight Sims Universe...:ernae:
 
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