Hi again, I've posted the same screenshots on ACG forum and John ask me how to obtain nine aircraft flying togheter.
Here what I wrote him.
Giorgio
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Hi John, I was already working on it.
You can see only 9, but the FP I've set up is for all 10, the last one is too much forward in the formation, so you
can't see it.
The FS9 Ai engine it's a nightmare and it does more or less what it wants, rather then what you say it to do....
BTW, in the past I've obtained quite good results, have a look here at MAIW Forum (scroll down to see all images):
http://www.militaryaiworks.com/newforum ... +tricolori
How to obtain that?
Simple to do, not so simple to explain.
Starting from the center of the runway of your Duxford scenery, I've created a new AFCAD with a runway of 160Km in
lenght. This is just to have reference points.
At the end of both sides, I have placed many parking spots in the position to create a formation. May be, the
following image clarifies what I mean:
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http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2836/formationg.jpg[/IMG]
These are on the South-West end of the runway, at the opposite side (N-E) you'll have a specular image, so specular
parking spots.
The reference point of every parking spot (Lat/long,height) have been put in the flightplan.txt as waypoint
reference.
Now, you have to setup a flightplan that make an aircraft flying between one S-W waypoint and its specular waypoint
at N-E side.
This type of positioning, teorically can make you able to create the formation that you prefer, Arrow-nine formation
or five aircrat crossing four as per Frecce screenshots, or this nice Tornado Diamond-nine.
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http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1271/torn01ec0.jpg[/IMG]
As I said, teorically. It's quite simple to have a lot of aircraft for a fly pass, to have the aircraft flying in
formation, it's another story, depending by precise timing of the flightplan and the precise positioning of the
waypoints.
Hope this helps.
Regards, Giorgio