Shaking Air Tractor

lasarus

Thanks for the great pic of a real Air Tractor ,never saw a real one before and thanks for the info about the plane.
 
I hate to make this post but......

Last night after getting the new config section in ,both Air tractors were smooth on the ground and taxied easly. Today the bouncing is back with both planes. I double checked that the modded config file had saved and hadn't gone back to the old one ,but it was the same as when I had changed it. I have OBIO's mods but their txt and cfg files combined into one . I know the names can't be changed to just cfg files ,will they work as txt/cfg files?
I'am ready to say the heck with it anyway ,getting very weary about trying to take the bounce out of one aircraft, so I will probley leave them alone, don't know why they changed overnight and the config file for the wheeled version( didn't think the float version needed it) has all the new values that I changed.
I'am really starting to think that while they call model Railroading the " Worlds Greatest Hobby" flight simming is the" World Worst Hobbby" Bout ready to make the switch, too stressful for me.
 
Is this renewed bouncing at the field where it was smooth yesterday or on a different location ?As for FS being sometimes frustrating and sometimes a great joy.....well I guess it just is as real as it gets. Real flying is much the same. It is challenging in physical and mental form, it sometimes makes you look like a klutz just when you least need it. But when you do manage to keep all the balls in the air it is the best thing there is. 279 hours after we purchased our PA32-301 and about 50 different approaches to getting a hot start sequence that works 100% of the time I have just concluded that short of installing a FADEC system our IO-540 sometimes just doesn't feel like it.In the end is simply a personal choice, do you just want to give up or bite down a bit and get by with the help of your friends. As long as there is CalClassic and SOH I think the choice is quite simple.Stefan
 
Welcome to hobbying in general. Sorry to the folks that think FS is more than that, I think it is something rather unique myself. A love/hate relationship seems to fit. When I can't figure out a problem like this one I just hangar the plane for a while and fly one I know works well. So just walk away from it for a bit. But for sure you don't have to quit posting FS problems or frustrations. In fact this is THE place to get them addressed. Maybe not fixed but as you have seen some of us like to slay the dragon.
 
same place ,same time

The bounching came back at the same airport the default one at Seattle. I taxied over the same surfaces both asphalt and grass or dirt ,whatever some of that brownish stuff is.In other words I decided to test it again using the exact same surfaces and conditions as the night before. I'am for walking away from it for now, this computer is 10 years old ,although most parts in the tower and the monitor have been replaced at least once so any day the whole thing will go anyway. Why put a bunch of work into something that won't last anyway?
It's just that I don't fire up the sim to fly anymore just to test something because I figure ,whats going to go wrong now?
 
aeromed202 said:
Welcome to hobbying in general. Sorry to the folks that think FS is more than that ......
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Well I saved a bundle during both my private and instrument training thanks to FS and I have met some of the most wonderful people I know in British Columbia thanks only to FS and a forum such as this. So it can be quite more than just a hobby.If the same airplane reacts completely different at the same place than the day before and you did not make any changes that is indeed troubling. My stubborn personality would have to find out why that is....but since that might involve serious experimentation including adding a completely stock parallel install of FS on the same system I doubt, after reading your posts that this the way for you to go. There are plenty other airplanes out there to fly and enjoy....so if one just doesn't want to play ball for you on your particular setup it might be best to move on indeed.Stefan
 
Having stayed way too long stuck in the fs2002 world(due to serious HW limitations), I became very adept at making fs2004 planes function in a world they inherently didn't like. And like Stefan I would spend whatever it took to "get 'er done," but on rare occasions the trash can was the only option.

Now that I run FS2004 on a kicka** PC, I can spend the vast majority of my time loading and flying which is so cool. If a particular plane acts too silly, I will spend a few minutes fiddling with it, but no where near the time I'd invest in FS2002. I have a very short fuse nowadays as there are sooo many planes that work perfectly outta the box -- so to speak.

The changes I make now are to enhance an already flyable bird to suit my preferences, not to make it work such as; specular shine, lighting, smokey bits, tire pressure, effects, etc. That stuff is fun and the results are very satisfying.

So after all this "rational rambling," my advice is set your frustration level alarm very low and always keep the trash can near by. Then quickly move on to one of those awesome birds you know you love. In just a few moments you will remember why FS is so much fun.
 
thanks guys for understanding

Thankyou both for your understanding of the way I feel about flight simming. As frustrated as I get ,for some reason (just plane cussedness ) I always go back. The Air Tractors are flyable and I will keep them. In the air they are smooth a silk ,on the ground they can ,at times rattle your teeth(ya at almost 64 I still have my own) but as I said before I can still manage to taxi them,since I'am a cold ,dark, parking area type.I hate just sitting at the end of the runway and firewalling the throttle.
So anyway ,I do have to agreee ,FS people are some of the nicest ( althought a bit nuts) people you could ever know. I wish there were an FS group around here but sadlly I know of none.
 
I was nuts to begin with

I've been nuts for as long as I remember ,being a flight simmer just made me know how nuts.
 
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