Fairchild PT-19

technoid said:
OKAY. I've seen it said both ways. So which seat is the Pilot/Instructor seat and which is the Student seat. Right now I have the Pilot view in the front and the Student view in the rear. Or should I just call them front seat and rear seat.

Maybe Instructor and Student instead of Pilot and Student. Or just Front Seat and Rear Seat. The rear seat isn't a good view, you just see the rollover pylon and the back of the front seat pilot. Going by the view in the rear seat I'd expect the front seat to be the student.

Info from same webpage

1. The qualified pilot (the instructor) takes the rear cockpit, the student takes the front. If you sit in front, you are a student. What self-respecting pilot would want to sit up front?

2. Now as far as wartime use of the airplane is concerned, the instructor sat in the front and the student in the back.
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I would just name them front and rear. Let the user decide who`s who......keep it simple
 
Here's a beta. Let me know if you have any problems or see something that needs to be fixed.

Controls are setup for the InterLink Elite.

Brakes: Up elevator
Flaps: Channel 6 knob
Smoke: Channel 7 switch

On Board Cameras

F4: Cinema Cam
F5: Front Seat
F6: Plane Front
F7: Plane Left
F8: Plane Right
F9: Rear Seat

The wheels can be changed using the Engine to Show physics setting.

Normal Wheels - Engine to Show = None (default)
Star Hubcaps - Engine to Show = 2STROKE
Blue Hubcaps - Engine to Show = 4STROKE

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NOTE: There is a bug in this beta that shows a very small rotating gray square when either of the hubcaps is enabled. I fixed it with the help of @rcdoski so be sure to get the final version when I release it. There will also be 4STROKE and EP versions at release.
 
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I made a few changes to the color schemes. The silver color scheme needed more gloss to look right so I went back and upped the gloss on the normal yellow/blue color scheme too. I didn't increase the yellow/blue color scheme gloss quite as much as the silver color scheme but enough to notice it. I also lowered the gloss on the pilots a little and adjusted the color of the motor hub. Just a few tweaks to make them look better before release. I'll fly both of the color schemes a little more to make sure I'm done and then release both the EA and CS together.
 
technoid said:
I made a few changes to the color schemes. The silver color scheme needed more gloss to look right so I went back and upped the gloss on the normal yellow/blue color scheme too. I didn't increase the yellow/blue color scheme gloss quite as much as the silver color scheme but enough to notice it. I also lowered the gloss on the pilots a little and adjusted the color of the motor hub. Just a few tweaks to make them look better before release. I'll fly both of the color schemes a little more to make sure I'm done and then release both the EA and CS together.
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I`ve been messing with the physics a little, I found that setting the washout to 7.0 help a lot with tip stalling in a slower somewhat steep banked turn. I also found that the plane really didn`t want to slow down very easily on a short final approach, SO, I set the frontal and parasitic drag factor on the fuse to 150 and did the same to main wing parasitic drag factor ALSO changed the flaps Max. deflection to 28.0 and the rolling resistance on the wheels to 200, and finally the Hor. stab incidence to -1.4. Please try these settings and see what you think.
 
uncle twist said:
I`ve been messing with the physics a little, I found that setting the washout to 7.0 help a lot with tip stalling in a slower somewhat steep banked turn. I also found that the plane really didn`t want to slow down very easily on a short final approach, SO, I set the frontal and parasitic drag factor on the fuse to 150 and did the same to main wing parasitic drag factor ALSO changed the flaps Max. deflection to 28.0 and the rolling resistance on the wheels to 200, and finally the Hor. stab incidence to -1.4. Please try these settings and see what you think.
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I actually thought about increasing the flaps to 28 (from 26). I'll create a temporary version of the physics and try out all of your settings and see what it's like.
 
My first thought was to get it slowed down and more manageable for final approach/landing, that`s when I also noticed it wanted to lose a lot of altitude on turn to base and final, thus the added washout, then I started working on getting it slow down, thus all the other adjustments. I found adding the drag to the wing and the flap adjustment help a lot,
 
uncle twist said:
My first thought was to get it slowed down and more manageable for final approach/landing, that`s when I also noticed it wanted to lose a lot of altitude on turn to base and final, thus the added washout, then I started working on getting it slow down, thus all the other adjustments. I found adding the drag to the wing and the flap adjustment help a lot,
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I created a copy of the physics and put all your changes in and I can see what you were doing with them, so thanks for sharing them with me. The cool thing about RealFlight is each person can tune the physics to make the plane fly the way they want. For me I'm so used to flying a plane the way I set it up it feels natural to me, so I'll be staying with what I have. Like I said I considered increasing the flaps to 28 (from 26) but flying it a little more with the flaps down at 26 I can fly the plane right at 30 which seems about right for me, so I'll probably stick with the flaps at 26. But thanks for sharing your tuning with me I enjoyed trying it out.
 
All the tweaks I did to the color scheme the other day was in temp files so I went back this morning and started updating the real files. I updated the yellow/blue color scheme for the changes but I still need to update the silver color scheme for the changes. But right now I have to get ready to take the wife to Dallas for her specialist appointment. So I'll finish updating the silver color scheme later.

On a different note, @asj5547 new helicopter has so many cool details it looks great.
 
uncle twist said:
I`ve been messing with the physics a little, I found that setting the washout to 7.0 help a lot with tip stalling in a slower somewhat steep banked turn. I also found that the plane really didn`t want to slow down very easily on a short final approach, SO, I set the frontal and parasitic drag factor on the fuse to 150 and did the same to main wing parasitic drag factor ALSO changed the flaps Max. deflection to 28.0 and the rolling resistance on the wheels to 200, and finally the Hor. stab incidence to -1.4. Please try these settings and see what you think.
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i think you meant .70 not 7.0 on the washout didn't you uncle twist :)
 
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