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How create new air file?

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Hi

Sorry for my bad English. :)

I’m trying to create flight dynamic. I understand how change parameters in *.air file, but I not understand how create my own *.air file?
Please help me 0_0
 
ibreeze said:
Hi

Sorry for my bad English. :)

I’m trying to create flight dynamic. I understand how change parameters in *.air file, but I not understand how create my own *.air file?
Please help me 0_0
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You generally do not "create" a new air file, but rather use an existing *.air file and modify it. For all practical purposes, all *.air files started off as one of the default aircraft *.air files at one time or another.
 
Meanings in Air file

Is there documentation on the veriables in the AIR file? If so, where can I download it? or do I try a change, then test fly it????

I want to try to create a sci-fi type aircraft based upon the "Death Glider" from Stargate SG1, including hypersonic speeds, the ability to turn laminar airflow off, and that sort of thing....
 
The *.air file and variables therein have never been officially documented. For all practical purposes, any documentation has been user-community generated.

I will presume that you are aware that flight dynamics are a combination of the variables in the air file and the aircraft.cfg file (which in many cases overrides the air file equivalent, but in somes cases the aircraft.cfg variables is for "show").

My "first stop" site for studies in the Occult Art of Flight Dynamics is avhistory, (avhistory.org) and Jerry Beckwith's mudpond.org

In the end, however, you will not avoid tweaking and testing your changes. Reading up just makes the tweaks less of a wild guess!

Good Luck!

:)
 
Sorry for hijackking this thread, but im trying to do my own first model, and im at the stage where i need to create an .AIR file for it, or as you've said, edit an already exisitng one.. but how do i edit such a file?

program needed? freeware or payware?

Thanks! :D
 
Hi
If you have FS9 you can use the airfiles and aircraft.cfg from the template folder (fs9/aircraft/template)
This site has links and info that will help get you started
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/hsors/index.html
I use AirEd mainly its on all the major sim sites.
I also use AAM the author sites gone bye bye,but you can get a copy here (also grab the update ini file)
http://www.fsdossier.info/aam_ini.htm

and last but not least is Airwrench
http://www.mudpond.org/
Which is a cheapware (payware thats cheap :) )

A few other links I use
http://www.av8n.com/how/
http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/ads/aircraft.html
http://www.ae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/ads/coord_database.html
and of course
www.google.com ;)
cheers
Wozza
 
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