Cessna U206G Soloy Turbine

[Dieter]

Well, I left it out, I didn't find this entry in "property" of the P3D SDK, section [propeller]

http://www.prepar3d.com/SDK/SimObject%20Creation%20Kit/SimObject%20Container%20SDK/Aircraft%20Configuration%20Files.htm#propeller

[Penzoil3]

 
 Wow, that's helpful. I have the SDK, but never really used it. This is educational. You know a lot more about P3D than I do for sure. Maybe you can help me figure out something. I have a Piper Apache Floater ported to P3D. In FSX it works normally. In P3D, at 35 to 40 knots, the controls stop responding. The rudder and yoke don't move. If I chop the throttle, when it slows down again, they free up. I'm pulling my hair out, this is so strange.
 Thanks
 Sue

[Dieter]

Well, to clarify I'm not an expert in this stuff!

But,
- is this a freeware or a payware model? Which one exactly?
(some payware models like thoses ones from A2A give serious problems to get an FSX version running in P3D)
- how did you port over? Just copying from FSX to P3D or did you use a migration tool?

[Penzoil3]

  Actually it's Bill Lyon's old FS9 Piper Apache. I redid all the guages with FS Panel Studio, and fixed the windows with DXT Bitmap.  So after doctoring the Apache, it's just copied into Simobjects/Airplanes. I've been using it in FSX for a coons age, and in P3D since version 1.
  The wheeled version is fine, (in P3D 3.49) but the float verstion is being strange. I just decided to put the float version in P3D after RTMM...
   Sue

[Dieter]

Oh, a FS9 model ...
Gauges and texture doesn't seem to be the problem.
I assume the problems are in the aircraft.cfg or even in the appropriate xxx.air file.

[Penzoil3]

  
   It's weird, if I go to the map, and put the plane in the air at say 2000 ft and 125 knots, it's fine. I have control, until I touch the water again, boom frozen controls. Drop under 30, they work again. Something with the water in P3D. No big deal, I have  plenty of other float planes. It's just frustrating. Look at the avatar, you'll understand.  I love that old Apache.
 LOL
 Sue

[Doug]

Sue...a lot of us are learning from this thread thanks to you and Dieter.

[Penzoil3]

 
 Ok, what do I need to open an xx.air file ? Or a mdl file ? Being stubborn...
LOL
 Sue

[Penzoil3]

Got it! It was the contact points. I cheated, stole the contact points from the Twotter cfg, then played with the vertical height until I wasn't hovering.
 Took a bit of playing to get the height right, but it answers the controls and takes off now !
 HOO-HAH!  BWA_HA_HA !
Sue

[Dieter]

Sorry,  I must correct myself:

This aircraft version is still MKI (in updated version 2)
So she doesn't have "reverse" in reality!

[Penzoil3]

 
 That's OK; TiAr is working on the Mark II.
 LOL
 Sue