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Revising Flight Physics for UV-4 UAV

Rob Gomez

Rob Gomez

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Hello everyone,

I plan on participating in the 4th annual USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington D.C. There I will be highlighting my Prepar3D v2 unmanned aerial system the UV-4 V/STOL UAV. I want some help changing the motor settings in the aircraft configuration. Is it possible for me to create an aircraft.cfg that is a true quadrotor aircraft. Not just using the default EH-101 engine like I have now, but I am looking for a multirotor setup that can give me a realistic feel for my UAV.
 
Not possible without some extreme magic. For accurate simulation of nonstandard aircraft, you'd be better off with X-Plane.
 
Hmm... I found out that P3D/FSX SDK only supports a primary and secondary motor for rotorcraft, so my best bet for a realistic simulation is calculate the thrust of all four motors then have one large motor placed at the center of gravity. The theory of vector thrust also is not supported on this platform. So yes Heretic you are right P3D/FSX is not the platform for this, maybe X-Plane but I don't own it and don't use it.
 
You can maybe fake VTOL behaviour with Rob Barendregt's set of gauges, but you'd have to adapt them to your model first.
(rcbvca40.zip at Avsim)
 
Robert, your not going to be able to get a realistic flight model for a four motor drone in FSX without some extensive programming. As Heretic said Rob Barendregt's gauges are your best alternative.
 
Rob's active here. (rcbarend)

If you have a question about licensing his gauge, it would be better to study the readme first as such things are usually mentioned there.
 
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