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Idle Setting

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Which .cfg file contains the low throttle or idle setting? I have a model that is almost impossible to land because the throttle off rpm is too high. It floats the whole length of the runway. I found this setting once before, but neglected to document what I changed, and can't reproduce what I did.

Thanks!
 
First, check to see how much thrust the propeller is generating at the lowest rpm. If there is no (or less than zero) thrust then changing the rpm isn't going to make a bit of difference to the floating.

But if you do want to change the minimum RPM you want to look at the engine_mechanical_efficiency_table and the engine_friction_table. Both are related. You may be able to get away with changing the engine_friction_table first.

Note, these parameters are in [PISTON_ENGINE] in the engines.cfg. For any other engine I don't know. Might help if you specified the engine type when asking these sorts of questions because piston, turbo prop and jet engines have different parameters.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I don't want to change the thrust/power factors as the airplane flies fine and I don't want to affect that. I just want low throttle to be at a lower RPM. This is an internal combustion engine in an FSX plane that has been converted to MSFS. If flew fine in FSX, but in MSFS low throttle keeps it right about stall speed. I'm sure I changed something once before to solve this problem, but I installed an updated model and lost my changes because I forgot I had done that (I remember it was in a .cfg file). Will make sure to save the changes should I ever figure it out again!
 
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