Nose pitch on final -> fix

[Bjorn Comhaire 27]

It has been noticed by some that on final approach the nose attitude of the A300 can be quite high and especially in the 2D panel this makes it difficult to see the runway at very low speeds.

In older versions of FS you could change the seating in the 2D but in FSX this no longer works unfortunately. There is an easy fix to this issue however.

In the FSX -> SimObjects -> Airplanes -> Simcheck A300 folder, open the "aircraft.cfg" file (in Notepad or a similar basic text editor) and change the "[flaps.x]" sections with the text below. Basicaly what this update does is increase the lift and pitch effect of extending the flaps resulting in much better visuals on final approach. We loose a little bit of realism because of this but we sometimes have to bow to the laws of flight simulator

Björn

[Flaps.0]

type= 1

span-outboard= 0.840

extending-time= 32.000

system_type= 0

damaging-speed= 230.000

blowout-speed= 280.000

lift_scalar= 0.9500 //0.480

drag_scalar= 1.000

pitch_scalar= 0.95 //0.520

flaps-position.0=0.000, 0.000

flaps-position.1=0.000, 0.000

flaps-position.2=8.000, 0.000

flaps-position.3=15.000, 0.000

flaps-position.4=25.000, 0.000


[Flaps.1]

type= 1

span-outboard= 0.100

extending-time= 64.000

system_type= 0

damaging-speed= 265.000

blowout-speed= 280.000

lift_scalar= 0.225 //0.160

drag_scalar= 0.580 //0.400

pitch_scalar= 0.225 //0.100

flaps-position.0= 0.000, 0.000

flaps-position.1= 16.000, 0.000

flaps-position.2= 16.000, 0.000

flaps-position.3= 25.000, 0.000

flaps-position.4= 25.000, 0.000


[Flaps.2]

type= 2

span-outboard= 0.960

extending-time= 32.000

system_type= 0

damaging-speed= 265.000

blowout-speed= 300.000

lift_scalar= 0.400 //0.150

drag_scalar= 0.830 //0.930

pitch_scalar= 0.255 //0.200

flaps-position.0= 0.000, 0.000

flaps-position.1= 15.000, 0.000

[raymond 1]

Super, c'est beaucoup mieux comme ça.

Merci.

raymond.