Project Opensky A330/A340 issues

[luchofsx]

---First, I want to make clear that I have researched about this issues in many sites without successful answers.---

Hi,
I recently downloaded the Airbus airplanes from P. Opensky, the A330 (-200/-300) and the A340 (-200/-300). So, I started my T/O, but at the moment I wanted to T/O with the A340-200, I found out I had a tail-strike. I tried several times to T/O with all the Airbus from P. Opensky and found out that although teh A330 is less common, it also has T/O and Landing problems as the A340 has. Here is a list of them:

1. Take-Off issues:
-Has some serious tail-strike problems. Has to T/O very slow, which increases the actual Vr speed.
-(A340)Has a very high Vr speed (about 170 to 185KIAS), unrealistic with the actual Vr speed of the A340 (about 150-160KIAS).

2. General issues:
-Has overweight problems, for more than 20000lb.
-It's Center of Gravity tends to be at the aft, so at cruise speed and altitude (climbing by stair method) it maintains a nose up attitude.

3. Landing issues:
-Due to the Center of Gravity issues, the aircraft has an unrealistic nose-up attitude (with both full and almost empty tanks).
-It tends to have a tail-strike because of the CG issues.

I have to say, that I have mixed feelings abuth this aircraft, because although it is a beautiful external model, the problems already mentioned make it (the aircraft) seem really bad.

I appreciate any help, because it might help others,

Luis

[abrussell]

Try using the procedures in this checklist. Its the first one on the page.
Bruce

http://www.simnetwork.com/SIMNETWORK....php?cat_id=24

[luchofsx]

Thanks, but what about the speed and the CG issues?

Luis

[abrussell]

According to this forum:

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo...d.main/100744/

the posky aircraft will load max fuel and max cargo by default at the start of the flight. I don't have the posky so I can't give you details on exactly how to change the weights, but a Google search will surely provide some answers.
Bruce

[letsgofaster]

Why not just get Thomas ruth A340 and 330? I tried to download the posky 340 and had several problems with it, as it was oridginaly a fs9 model. Just search toma333, toma332, toma343, (but i'm not sure if he has the a340-200) in the files here on flight sim. But DON'T search for it on google. I made that mistake already. It's not his ordiginal a340.

[luchofsx]

Yeah, I'm actually using all the Thomas Ruth Airbus Families (the A300(-600R, -600F, -600ST, -B1, -B2, -B4), A310(-100, -300), A330(-200, -300), and A340(-200, -300, -500, -600)). But the thing is that the A330 and A340 of P. Opensky are really nice exterior models, that I wanted to see if I could fix them. Also, I've already heard of the P. Opensky FDE issues and that the aircraft are always overweighted. If you compare Thomas Ruth models with P. Opensky models, there are some aspects that each model has that make it better than the other. Anyways, thanks for the attention, I´ll guess I´ll tweak the aircraft.cfg until it gives me results.

[luchofsx]

---IMPORTANT SOLUTION---

Finally got a solution for this overweight problem (at least for the A330). What actually happens is that the aircraft.cfg WEIGHT AND BALANCE section is a little bit wrong, just 100,000 lb wrong. In the A330-300 aircraft.cfg, in the already mentioned section, it appears that the empty weight for the aircraft is 354,700 lb, when the actual empty weight, does not surpasses the 300,000lb. Just change the value of the empty weight to 274,000 lb, and you'll have a more exact weight.

Hope this info helps everybody.

[chillu]

Hey! I have landing problem with the A340 600 by thomas ruth. As soon as it captures the glide scope, the aircraft keeps oscillating up and down.. can anyone help me out? Very desperate!!