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Topic: tail-skid or tail wheel ?
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Laika 801
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posted 03-01- 05:41 PM
   
Uh itīs late - I removed the tail gear and placed a nice tail skid as used on the I-16 to my model. Taxiing is nearly impossible now. The plane behaves like it is on ice.
Wheel dofs are definitly straight (-1,0,0) and the skid (and bodyPts) is at 0,Y,Z = right in the middle of the plane. The AI isnīt able anymore to takeoff with the plane (80% crashes). I read that some others got this problem too but I dont find a solution or a tip how to fix this. So what should I do now ?Ah - The WheelPt for the tail skid is not placed correctly cause I dont find a way to get the exact coordinates for this point, could this be the reason for the skidding ? IP: Logged |
Laika 801
Pilot
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posted 03-01- 05:46 PM
I also should mention that Mark Hanna wrotes this in his article "Flying the Rata" :"...she runs pretty much straight as an arrow..." My I-16 runs straight like I do when I totally drunken. IP: Logged |
Bryan Russell
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posted 03-01- 05:56 PM
If you look at the Fokker you will see that it actually has an invisible wheel at the tail, and a visible skid. Perhaps this is what you need?IP: Logged |
Laika 801
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posted 03-02- 03:52 AM
maybe - iīll test it!IP: Logged |
Laika 801
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posted 03-02- 04:49 AM
much better now (not straight as an arrow yet)  I also find out that my empty (no Lods,Points and dofs) tail parent is not at x=0 and all the childs of it also (rudder and tailgear), so I hope when I fix this it will be better than now. The engine GearRation is also not right yet and the plane is much too fast. Some strange thing I noticed when I tested this: I had to do the work twice cause after the first test the bodPts of the tailwheel where still in the sm file but not recognized by SDOE. I reload an backup file and did exactly the same modifications but now it works. Strange !?. IP: Logged |
Sv
Pilot
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posted 03-02- 05:48 AM
For my WWI planes I always delete the existing tail-wheel form the Fokker DR1a and copy and paste one from the FW190. This way you can position it perfect in OPS, then just ad an obHidden to it.------------------
-Sv =FC=
WWI in SDOE!
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Laika 801
Pilot
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posted 03-02- 09:03 AM
obHidden ? I just deleted the lod model and it works for me. Does that change anything ?IP: Logged |
Sv
Pilot
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posted 03-02- 09:08 AM
Laika 801,That sounds fine too. I just wanted to keep the LOD around in case I needed to re-position the tailwheel later. -Sv IP: Logged |
Laika 801
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posted 03-02- 01:17 PM
Oh - I know this stupid situation - kill a lod or something else (a dof) and 10 minutes later - "...shit..."  IP: Logged |
Laika 801
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posted 03-02- 01:27 PM
Off topic - I fiddled around with some lods and I add a new lod and BANG - not enough memory error in OPS. WHAAAAAA - thank god I made a backup 5 minutes before ;IP: Logged |
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