Yet Another Tower View Question

[Matt Chase 974571]

Firstly, Great job on VRC 1.1, its fantastic!

Anyway, I rigged up a plane that I will solely use for Tower View, and changed the CFG as the Manual said. Only prob is, the plane tilts.

 

CFG:

[contact_points]
point.0 =1,  0.48,  0.00, -3.33, 1500, 0, 0.5, 22.0, 0.3, 2.5, 0.7, 0.0, 0.0, 0
point.1 = 1, -4.70, -4.50, -4.01, 3500, 1, 0.5,  0.0, 0.3, 2.5, 0.7, 0.0, 0.0, 2
point.2 = 1, -4.70,  4.50, -4.01, 3500, 2, 0.5,  0.0, 0.3, 2.5, 0.7, 0.0, 0.0, 3
point.3 = 2, -3.90, -18.0,  3.00, 1800, 0, 0.0,  0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 5
point.4 = 2, -3.90   18.0,  3.00, 1800, 0, 0.0,  0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 6
point.5=  2,-20.23,   0.0,  0.30, 1800, 0, 0.0,  0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 9
point.6=  2,  1.48,   0.0, -2.17, 1800, 0, 0.0,  0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 4
point.7=  2,-22.80,   0.0,  5.83, 1800, 0, 0.0,  0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 7
point.8=  2, -4.90,   0.0, -2.00, 1800, 0, 0.0,  0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 8

max_number_of_points = 21

static_pitch=0.0               //degrees, pitch when at rest on the ground (+=Up, -=Dn)
static_cg_height=3.765           //feet, altitude of CG when at rest on the ground

 

Any Ideas?

[Paul O'Donnell 969350]

Instead of using an aircraft, I downloaded ATC Tower from flightsim.com.

It works quite well, the only problem was I had to enable the "slew" button and slew it into place, but once I had it in place I just saved it so I could load it up in the same position quite easily.

Which then enabled me to delete that darn "slew" command.

[Matt Chase 974571]

Just downloaded it, Thanks!

[Paul O'Donnell 969350]

you're welcome Matt. someone else told me about it, coz I couldn't be bothered editing my .cfg file for an aircraft.

[Ross Carlson]

Looks like you modified the C172. The example in the VRC docomeentation is for the default C182. For the C172, you would want this as the first contact point:

 

point.0 = 1,  0.90,  0.00, -4.01, 1500, 0, 0.5, 22.0, 0.25,2.5, 0.7, 0.0, 0.0, 0

 

The fourth parameter for the first contact point determines how far below the center of gravity the nose gear is. You used -3.33, which is not far enough down ... needs to be -4.01. That's why it sits nose-low. Change it to the line above and it'll be fine.

[Matt Chase 974571]

Thanks Ross!