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Aircraft Range & Air File

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How do I check the range of an aircraft? I know it varies base on a lot of other factors such as thrust setting, wind and altitude. But how do I get the rough estimate of the range an aircraft is capable of flying? If for some reason I want to change the range of an aircraft is there any way to change it?

Beside AirEd and AirWrench is there any other good air file editor?
 
Unless you actually "fly" it in the sim, under a fixed set of conditions, your best "guess" is real world figures for the particular (or similar) airplane.


As far as I know, AirEd and AirWrench are the two best air file editors. There used to be "Aircraft Airfile Manager" but after a small update for FS2004, it went out of sight.
 
The aircraft.cfg will allow you to change alot of the aircraft settings, but to get to the main ones, you will need an air file editor.

I have AirWrench and it works perfectly, if you choose to get it, make sure you send your serial number after your order, you get this in the about box, it will speed up the rego process.
 
tan_hui_yang said:
How do I check the range of an aircraft? I know it varies base on a lot of other factors such as thrust setting, wind and altitude. But how do I get the rough estimate of the range an aircraft is capable of flying? If for some reason I want to change the range of an aircraft is there any way to change it?

Beside AirEd and AirWrench is there any other good air file editor?
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Well, if all other factors (cruise speed, thrust settings, climb rate and so on) are correct, range is simply a matter of fuel flow.

You can tray to adjust the fuel flow scalar in the aircraft.cfg but this affects all power settings.
If you want to change the fuel flow at some specific N2, you have to edit table 1505.

The easiest way to edit such tables is in my opinion to use Aircraft Airfile Manager (AAM).
 
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Hi
You can use an app called AFSD its a exe that plugs into FS9 via FSUIPC.dll
It has no docs,the orig site that had the file has gone and I cant find it anywhere on the net.(see link in next message for location of file).Basically start fs9 in window mode make sure you have a ver of fsuipc installed in the fs9/modules folder then launch the ASFD app,click on start and use the drop down list to find the fuel management section.this will give you all the needed info in real time as you fly.
cheers
Wozza
 
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Hi Sergio
thanks for the info:) I use to use Herves page all the time
thought he might have been another one to go bye bye
Ill take the file down as ppl can now get it from the source
thanks again
Wozza
 
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