Another Low Flying Tornado

Post by **tango234** » 11 Jun 2009, 17:57

A follow-on for my debut post in the same spirit.
This was at FULL throttle at all of about 10ft?

As an afterthought, I know it's not military but this is my first attempt at a repaint (it's dave maltby's VC-10) Criticisms welcome.
(picture slightly out of date, I have done a little more work on it since that test flight)

PS yes i do know that the windows aren't high enough, I've dealt with that.

EDIT-not all my own work, i borrowed some of the symbols from other BA textures, still had to make them fit though

kungfuman · Post by **kungfuman** » 11 Jun 2009, 19:48

Nice

Is the first picture ai or user flyable?

I'm guessing the latter from your reference to "throttle"...

Post by **tango234** » 11 Jun 2009, 19:50

Its user-I've been following lossiemouth gr4s round for days hoping to see some do some low flying, does anyone have any advice?

kungfuman · Post by **kungfuman** » 11 Jun 2009, 19:58

You would have to engage in some flightplan modification to see this sort of low-level activity from your ai aircraft. I have managed to create many low-level military flights across the UK's airspace, where appropriate. However, I haven't yet had time to test them rigorously. Questions about how the ai will behave in close proximity to abrupt terrain, such as mountain ridges and other obstacles, still need answering.

Post by **tango234** » 11 Jun 2009, 20:01

I'll do that and see what happens

kungfuman · Post by **kungfuman** » 11 Jun 2009, 20:27

The method that I'm interested in testing involves setting the flightplan leg's flight level value below ground level. This causes FS9's internal ai "controller" codes to fly the ai aircraft just a couple of hundred feet above ground level, as there is an inbuilt function that tries to prevent the ai aircraft from colliding with the ground when in normal flight. How effective this inbuilt function is remains to be seen by me, and some have said that it cannot cope with mountains.

I've only tried this with VFR flightplans, as apparently IFR flightplans result in ground clearance of a couple of thousand feet (again, in normal flight). Additionally, IFR flightplans result in a higher volume of ATC communication between the ai aircraft and the controller, which is not really a desirable effect on civilian comms channels.

HTH

Dan

Post by **tango234** » 12 Jun 2009, 16:24

I've got FSX so I don't know if that will happen or not but I guess there's only one way to find out.