jdredding

If you are a person who makes tweaks to improve a plane, please share those suggestions for this plane.

Recently I noticed that the fuel gauges on the new panel were barely visible at night unless the panel lights were ON so I have changed the 2 fuel gauges. Be sure to check the numbers because I often have changed gauge numbers.

gauge37=MT_FS_Texan!Fuel Qty Left, 7, 470, 70,70

gauge38=MT_FS_Texan!Fuel Qty Right, 80, 470, 70, 70

 

Also the real RV-9A is freewheeling nose wheel but if you want to make it steerable use the following edits for the aircraft.cfg. Remove the // from one line and put them at the beginning of the other line.

 

[contact_points]

//point.0 = 1, 3.43, 0.00, -3.80, 1500, 0, 0.45, 36.3, 0.1, 2.5, 0.7, 0.0, 0.0, 0 // 36.3 = steerable

 

point.0 = 1, 3.43, 0.00, -3.90, 3500, 0, 0.45, 180.0, 0.1, 2.5, 0.7, 0.0, 0.0, 0 //180.0 = freewheeling

 

J Dwayne Redding

FSX modified FS2004 RV-9A panel.new\ panel.cfg comment

I was made aware that my new panel for RV-9A did not have a RPM gauge. I was trying to make my sim panel match a photo of a real RV-9A. I would think the plane has a RPM gauge but it is not seen in the photo.

I also noticed that I did not use 19 in my list of gauges. Please edit the panel.cfg as follows using the new locations. Using windows10 you may need to remove panel.cfg from its folder, edit the file, and do not forget to return the file to its proper folder.

 

gauge19 was skipped previously

gauge19=Cessna172!Clock, 55, 385,70,70

 

gauge30=Cessna172!Clock,

gauge30=CESSNA_172.RPM, 150, 350,90, 90

 

gauge39=Beech_Baron!OMI Lights,

gauge39=Beech_Baron!OMI Lights, 605, 355, 25, 50

 

gauge40=Beech_Baron!DME,

gauge40=Beech_Baron!DME,718, 306, 60, 35

 

If you like 2D panel this is a fun plane. All comments are welcome.

 

J Dwayne Redding wbredsail@yahoo.com

FS2004 panel.new\ panel.cfg comment

I was made aware that my new panel for RV-9A did not have a RPM gauge. I was trying to make my sim panel match a photo of a real RV-9A. I would think the plane has a RPM gauge but it is not seen in the photo.

I also noticed that I did not use 19 in my list of gauges so I will use the gauge19 in the process of adding a RPM gauge. Please edit the panel.cfg as follows using the new locations. Using windows10 you may need to remove panel.cfg from its folder, edit the file, and do not forget to return the file to its proper folder.

 

Enjoy the plane and comments are always welcome. J Dwayne Redding wbredsail@yahoo.com

 

gauge19 was skipped previously

gauge19=CESSNA_172.RPM, 150, 350,90, 90

 

gauge30=Cessna172!Clock,

gauge30=Cessna172!Clock, 55, 395, 70,70

 

gauge39=Beech_Baron!OMI Lights,

gauge39=Beech_Baron!OMI Lights, 605, 361, 25, 55

 

gauge40=Beech_Baron!DME,

gauge40=Beech_Baron!DME,718, 305, 60, 33

From J Dwayne Redding-- If you were one of those who downloaded the FSX new Textures and New Panel on 24 Dec 2020, I want to make up for a terrible upload and the only way I am able to do that is to offer you a customized single color texture with plane ID. There were 45 downloads when I wrote my first comment about my error and now that upload has been deleted from flightsim.com and I will refrain from any future uploads. Please do not let my error reflect badly on flightsim.com. They have been fantastic!

I will watch for comments here for the next several weeks and I need your email to send you any files. I can say this upload works as intended. wbredsail@yahoo.com

It will take me a few days to get my error corrected. What I will do if I'm allowed by flightsim is to upload my FS2004 plane but using my FSX panel from my previous FSX RV-9A plane. In this case, the alias sound is the same programming for both FS2004 and FSX. It will be a complete plane download and if you like flying the RV-9A, you will enjoy my next upload. I would try to explain my actions but that would probably only make things worse. J Dwayne Redding wbredsail@yahoo.com

I have made a serious error... again. I did not upload the FS2004 model but just added the new textures to my FSX plane which works great if black is your favorite color. I will fix the problem and then I will take a long break from uploading to flightsim.com. For those that have already downloaded the bad file, I will customize a plane for you in a single color like the red or yellow plane upon request. I could possibly do more but no guarantee of that.

Simple fix for Checklist and Reference files not showing. In the Aircraft.cfg for each of the 3 planes RV-9A should have the following 2 lines: kb_checklists=RV-9A_Check and kb_reference=RV-9A_ref . The problem was that because i was working on a FS2004 RV-9A and well as the FSX models, I added the FSX in the name of the Checklist and Reference files and forgot to consider that. The files for FS2004 checklist and Reference are exactly the same for the RV-9A. This plane was well worth all the time I spent but I'm not sure I could do this again. However if you have a model that is giving you problems, I can possibly offer you constructive comment. J Dwayne Redding wbredsail@yahoo.com

From J Dwayne Redding-- Somehow I failed to notice that the toe brakes were not effective enough on short field landing. In the Aircraft.cfg file under [brakes] is a line that should read toe_brakes_scale=1. - I will try that and lower my approach speed for those landings over an obstacle. There are 4 other lines of the cfg file that I do not think have any real effect but they are not consistent with the reference files I have provided.

Under [flaps.0] (The 0 zero designates Electric powered.) There were numbers given for damaging speed and blowout speed that were beyond imagination. The lines should read: damaging-speed=105 KIAS and blowout-speed=115 KIAS Those are not numbers I can find in my notes but are based on the numbers that I have. Flaps @ 20 degrees has max speed of 96 KIAS and Full flaps has max speed of 70 KIAS. My original numbers came from a similar plane by someone else and may have been intended to prevent failure in the simulator.

The same cfg file has wrong speeds under [Reference Speeds] and not all of the reference speeds are given here. It should read cruise_speed=156 KIAS and max_indicated_speed=182 KIAS Any and all comments are welcome. Thanks to all who gave it a try. Dwayne wbredsail@yahoo.com

Important update suggestion for RV-9A. A day or so ago I decided to fly the RV-9A out of Mexico City, elev about 7000. I barely had enough power for level flight so I edited the aircraft.cfg to read under [piston_engine] power_scalar=1.25 . This improved the performance significantly. There may be other solutions but I wanted to get ahead of future disappointments for those kind people who have downloaded this plane. J Dwayne Redding BTW The clouds at the Mexico City airport were so low and so thick that it really was an IFR situation. Quite a shock when I had just selected world location and was expecting VFR conditions, and then to not have enough power.

I have a similar plane that I used the same panel for which was a RV-6A but it is not one I feel I could share so I am sorry that my title mentioned FS2004. Today I discovered that my RV-9A has a strange event when you stop the pushback. I fixed that by opening the aircraft.cfg file and scrolling down to [GeneralEngineData], then edit the 2nd line which has Engine.0= -2.4, 0.0, 0.0 by changing -2.4 to 4.4. (I first tried 2.4 but that did not fix the problem, so I next tried 4.4 ) Notice the - (minus) is removed.) jdredding wbredsail@yahoo.com

I have not been using FS2004 for a few years and I have obviously overstated. I will reinstall FS2004 if I can and get back to those who are interested in a week or so. I have been running FSX without any problems. J Dwayne Redding