FS2004/FSX Metal Aircraft Corporation Flamingo

To everybody who downloads this model, if you'd like to have more repaints for it, check out this website which has more than 40!

http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/mac-flamingo.htm

Leonardo

Hey Semjase,

That's weird.. No Scenery, no aircraft, nothing shows up in your sim?

You installed to the default path that was predefined? Or did you install to another folder you chose?

Also were you trying to install for FS2004 or FSX?

Leonardo

Semjase then thats the problem, since I believe aircraft are installed in a different path than FS9 within the FSX folder, and the installer defaults to an FS9 installation :/

Try to install the aircraft to a temporary folder (example: create one named Flamingo in your desktop and select to install it there), and then try to manually install the aircraft in FSX. I don't have FSX myself so I can't give you much help there, but if you use this guide http://www.fstipsandaddons.com/how-to-install-addon-aircraft-in-fsx/ it should get you on the right path to have the aircraft showing up in your sim! ;)

Leonardo

I installed it on FS2004. It showed up just fine, but crashes on the runway at startup because the contact points are wrong. I tried fixing them in ACM and AirEd, but nothing worked. All the contact and attachment points were relative to the CG, not the ground.

I deleted it. Too bad too, because it's a nice looking mode and I liked the VC and the co-pilot.

Hey dleblanc

That is weird, mine doesn't crash :/

Did you try to just let it crash the first time and see if it stays stable when it reloads? Because that sometimes 'fixes' it.

I can't remember if I had to edit any contact points, but I'm pretty sure I didn't have to :/

Let me try to install the model in its 'vanilla form' (because mine has some tweaks and tons of liveries) and see if I can replicate your issue, AND fix the contact points if so ;)

You described the initial issue perfectly. On the second or third reset after a crash, it would still hit hard, but sometimes survive. Since then, no matter what I do it crashes into the runway. New flight, old flight. Same. It seems the tail wheel (center contact point) drops through the geometry, as if I were holding it by the wing tips in the air. The front wheels contact just fine. If I load the aircraft in the air, it flies nice and lands nice. If I save the flight at that point, it will crash on the runway no matter how many times it resets.

Thanks a lot for the reply, I hope you can fix it.

Hey dleblanc,

I believe I have solved your problem! It appears it wasn't that contact points that were wrong, but the static cg which was placed too low! It essentially made the plane on loading a flight in the ground (or if you selected slew mode with it on the ground) becamoe 'buried' in said ground, which made it automatically crash when the sim tried to place it on the runway/apron/etc, after loading up your flight or when you exited slew mode!

The fix is quite simple; in your Aircraft.cfg file, look for the [contact_points] section and replace the "static_cg_height" line with this:

static_cg_height = 5.800

That should solve this problem! Please let me know if it worked!

Oh and you're welcome :)

Hopefully someone else with this issue will see these comments!

I might also upload a revised cfg file with not only that fix, but also changes regarding the weight parameters, station loading, and general handling of the aircraft that I made on mine to make it more realistic and faithful to the real thing!

Leonardo

I've downloaded and installed it with no problems whatsoever. However, I usually don't use the self-installer

of an older model but unzip it to a new folder and install it manually, which I did with this one. The contact

points are ok on my system, too, but I'm probably gonna re-upload the package with a modified VC and a

2D panel included.

Thanks to Leonardo for finding and posting this nice model.

That worked. The wheels still screeched a little bit, so I tried:

static_cg_height = 5.500 which is a far cry from 3.32

Now the model loads perfectly, first time every time.

Thank you!

Hey gustava,

That would be great! I'd like to have a panel for this aircraft, even though I'm much more of VC guy :P

And no problem! I just had such a hard time finding this that I felt like it should be more readily available to the community, since it is indeed a very nice model of a somewhat unknown plane!

Glad to hear it dleblanc! Hope you can really enjoy it fully now! Also check out the website I linked earlier (if you haven't already), some awesome repaints there by Gary J Smith :)

Leonardo

Craig Richardson's old site classicwings.net has now moved to https://raraavissims.wixsite.com/rara-avis-sims

Here you can download many of his older FS9 models as well as some of his new FSX ones.