Thank god for that. I've been wondering WTF I've been doing wrong since your last post
I'm not sure if it matters much but the actual contact points don't match the visual model. Drive over grass and (looking from behind) you'll see the dirt coming up maybe a foot or so outboard from where the wheels are.
I did try and trace down what needs to be done to stop the bounce and ended up none the wiser having visited FSDevelopers. They mentioned lines 8, 9 and 10.. 10 being the damping line but then went off on a tangent as their threads often do
So.. you're now like the Canadian pilot who managed a perfect landing on his first attempt then everyone after was a controlled crash. Welcome to the club
ATB
DaveB
I asked Bazz on the SoH forums if anything was going to be done about it and was told I needed to practice more. I've not uninstalled it yet but I'm tempted.
Not got to the bottom of the bouncing yet. I'll look at that again today.
I did notice that the aircraft.cfg comes with weight for tanks, bombs and rockets all set to max so it's probably a bit overweight. With the TP setup it adds and removes the weight as required. Also added a bit of code to fill or empty the external tanks if they're fitted.
Dave...Those rockets should be fired from a 30 degree dive (in fact from the cockpit it should seem quite a bit steeper than that)...In real life you fire them at a range that leaves you enough room to break hard up from the dive, roll on some bank and hard turn away...You would still pass over the target and feel the "CRUMPS" as the rockets explode, but you would not actually see the impacts and would have to look back in the turn away to know how close they went.
I had a lot of fun doing that for real and your post pulled out some great memories
Thanks for the tips Peter, I'll have to work om my technique.
I'm not sure how well the TackPack rockets match up to the type used on the Typhoon etc, so it's always going to be a bit of a compromise anyway.
Just uploaded a paint to FlightSim.com of the Typhoon used by the Fighter Leader School in 1944. This was a machine damaged in the Normandy campaign that was shipped back to the UK and stripped of all camo paint apart from the fabric covered rudder. Nicknamed 'The Silver Bullet' and flown by the Typhoon Squadron CO.