Prowler Carrier Dimensions

[gsnde]

Good evening John.

Do you have an idea, why the Prowler is parking so off-center? It seems that its much longer than it visually is. The parking spots are all aligned and of the fitting size.

[jetpilot1980]

That might explain this much:

ACJ1 Prowler off deck parked.JPG

But not the landing short issues I've been having...

[jetpilot1980]

But at least glad to see what looked like some really great landing photos of the Tomcat, Hornet and Goshawk in your other thread!

[John Young]

I've just tried the Prowler on the deck and can confirm the same behaviour Martin. The aircraft parks about half a length behind the parking spot centre, whether an anti-pushback node is present or not.

I don't know why that is. The spot is of the correct size and the datum for the model is halfway through the wing chord on the Y axis. That should ensure that the aircraft is centred on the spot on the spot. I also tested an F-35C with a similar datum and that parked correctly.

John

[gsnde]

All your other airpark behave perfectly fine on deck Wasn't there a thing like aircraft radius? Maybe that is set loo large?

[jetpilot1980]

As a matter of curiosity I opened an E-2 model and an EA-6B model in RADiator the results seem rather similar or not enough to make a huge difference...

[jetpilot1980]

So I finally found the answer to this problem where the A-6 and EA-6B were parking way far back in the spaces and or hanging over the carrier deck. The issue was the nose gear contact point in the aircraft.cfg was set way too far forward / way ahead of the aircraft causing the sim to simulate a larger footprint than the aircraft model actually has. The solution is to go into the aircraft.cfg files (needs to be done for all four of them Intruder, Prowler, Land Carrier) and change the following entry under the [contact_points] section to:

point.0=1.0, 13.62, 0.00,-8.45, 1181.1, 0, 1.2, 55, 1.2, 0.7, 0.5, 4.0, 4.0, 0, 0, 0