It could be that the contact points need a bit of 'tweaking' Cees (especially for P3D) as I've noticed some other aircraft where the contact points seem a bit 'off' between the two sims. I had both of those back in the day because I have always loved the Bucc although I don't remember doing much flying in either of them to be honest as they both had their quirks and any flying would have been land based not on carriers.
I just compared the two different aircraft.cfg file 'contact point' sections and there are
big differences between the two when you look at columns 8, 9 and 10 which cover 'Static compression', 'Max/Static Compression Ratio' and 'Damping ratio' respectively.
I have listed the pertinent sections below:
Flying Stations
// 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
point.0=1, 16.63053, 0.0, -7.73275, 2500, 0.0, 0.742205, 50.0,
0.24736, 1.5, 0.636204, 6.0, 6.0, 0.0, 225.0, 240.0
point.1=1, -2.75062, -5.833333, -7.26435, 2500, 1.0, 0.742205, 0.0,
0.626773, 2.5, 0.450352, 5.0, 5.0, 2.0, 225.0, 240.0
point.2=1, -2.75062, 5.833333, -7.26435, 2500, 2.0, 0.742205, 0.0,
0.626773, 2.5, 0.450352, 5.0, 5.0, 3.0, 225.0, 240.0
UKMIL
// 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
point.0= 1, 18.717, 0.000, -8.5, 2500, 0, 1.5, 100.000,
1.5, 1.0, 1.000, 2.500, 2.800, 0, 220, 280
point.1= 1, -2.500, -5.500, -8.65, 2500, 1, 2.5, 000.000,
1.9, 1.5, 1.000, 5.700, 5.700, 2, 220, 280
point.2= 1, -2.500, 5.500, -8.65, 2500, 1, 2.5, 000.000,
1.9, 1.5, 1.000, 5.700, 5.700, 2, 220, 280
NOTE: Even though I spaced the columns nicely in the text window the forum software has pulled out the extra spaces so columns got 'crunched' but hopefully you can figure out which bit belongs where. A copy and paste into a text file may help you line it all up again.
From the FSX SDK these are the definitions for columns 8, 9 and 10 with default reference values in parentheses:
Aircraft Configuration Files
| 8 (0.25) | Static Compression | This is the distance a landing gear is compressed when the empty aircraft is at rest on the ground (feet). This term defines the “strength” of the strut, where a smaller number will increase the “stiffness” of the strut. |
| 9 (2.50) | Ratio of Maximum Compression to Static Compression | Ratio of the max dynamic compression available in the strut to the static value. Can be useful in coordinating the “compression” of the strut when landing. |
| 10 (0.90) | Damping Ratio | This ratio describes how well the ground reaction oscillations are damped. A value of 1.0 is considered critically damped, meaning there will be little or no oscillation. A damping ratio of 0.0 is considered undamped, meaning that the oscillations will continue with a constant magnitude. Negative values result in an unstable ground handling situation, and values greater than 1.0 might also cause instabilities by being “over” damped. Typical values range from 0.6 to 0.95. |
The UKMIL values seem a bit 'excessive' to me and I would play around with those Cees. Back-up your cfg file then change a value, save, test and repeat. There is no way to do this other than trial and error unfortunately. I would also make any changes to point.1 and point.2 at the same time as they are your main gear contact points and you want to keep them in balance left to right.
Hopefully the above will get you sorted and let us know how you get on.
