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The He 177 had two engines driving one prop. I have read (German Handbooks) that you could shut down one engine whilst in flight and jusy fly using one of the two. Would love to be able to model that. Any ideas? I made a HE177 for CFS3 but due to the limitations had to have four seperate engines and props to get the gauges to work and such. I was hoping FSX would be more powerful to allow this.

This would require being able to drive one prop using two seperate engines albeit coupled via a clutch.
 
To my knowledge the only aircraft with two engines and one prop modeled in FS was the Wright Flyer. There are still some variables in the FSXA SDK that cover that unusual configuration. I have never looked at how the Wright Flyer was configured and it was only in the Centennial version of FS. So I can not help you clutch wise.

Roy
 
Roy Holmes said:
To my knowledge the only aircraft with two engines and one prop modeled in FS was the Wright Flyer. There are still some variables in the FSXA SDK that cover that unusual configuration. I have never looked at how the Wright Flyer was configured and it was only in the Centennial version of FS. So I can not help you clutch wise.

Roy
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Ummm the Flyer had 1 engine 2 props :)
You could do it by using custom prop xml code(visual model) that responded to 2 engines ..then just map out the engines in the cfg as normal and reduce the prop trust to suit ...for the clutch maybe use the prop pitch setting ??? In theory its doable :)
Wozza
 
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