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P3D v2 New Config, plane falls through ground?

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Another thought. I notice you actually have two [contact points] labels in your config. Delete the second one.
 
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Tom,
I'd lay money on the duplicate labels issue as being the cause.
Well spotted!
Roy
 
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Well dang... I never knew those section heading labels did anything.

Deleted the top one; plane sat perfect. Adjusted height back down, lovely...
Hit Slew key, plane sunk into ground, release Slew, plane plops up back onto the tires. CG Height and angle were 'above' the section heading label. I dropped them under the section label and Voila...

All my years of flight sim building, never knew about this.

Thanks Roy for getting me to check into this.

Thanks Tom for spotting that. Very interesting... Now to go test this airfile set! :D
 
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So all those times I added little things to config files thinking I could place strings anywhere, and got 'no function', this was why....
 
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Man... I am so glad I did that. Thanks Roy and Tom. This airfile is 1000x better then the Extra 300. Its my old Bucker Bu181 Bestmann files. Much more gentle for lining up wiht the runway on approach, ground taxiing, etc.
 
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That's good to hear Bill, and noted for future reference. :)

edit: should anyone wonder, without contact points the model will drop until the model centre hits the ground.
 
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hairyspin said:
should anyone wonder, without contact points the model will drop until the model centre hits the ground
Click to expand...

Tom that sums it up nicely.

And, of course, once the program found the first [contact points] section it stopped looking for the section where they were listed.

Roy
 
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