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The Black Art of .air files...

sixstrings5859

sixstrings5859

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Been looking to get started into making .air files for CFS3. There is very little to no information available. Does anyone know where to get started and what tools i need ? Can't seem to find any info on this Black Art.Also any help with the config. files and what the values mean ? Any help? Regards,Scott
 
The best advice I’ve been given is to spend a little money and buy AirWrench by Jerry Beckwith. You plug in the numbers, tell it which sim it’s for - CFS3 is listed - and it spits an .air and .cfg back at you. Just bear in mind you’re going to need a lot of numbers and lots of them are not in Wikipedia like aileron area, elevator angle limits up and down or fuel tank weight and position in the wings. It does a pretty good job if you can get the data.

The other (free) tools are fine for editing an existing .air file but you do have to know what you’re about. Imagine being in a NASA mission mid-flight and randomly flipping switches - wonder what this does? That’s how many other editors can seem and many models have flight behaviour which came about that way. I’m afraid there isn’t a ready how-to forum either!
 
sounds great, Scott ;)

yes, the AirEd is a free nice tool which should cover all main you need.
I personally would focus rather on the aircraft.cfg basic values.

well youve chosen the most hardest part of the flightsim modding, but you never will start from scratch, just with edits of some of the many available aiprlane configs.

to make faster the airplane could be a nice goal ;)

good luck!
 
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