Hi Alberto,
I've just discovered your MB-339 PAN 2.0. Very interesting aircraft, with a lot of work on it. Many thanks to you and everyboby of your team.
During testing, I've been tempted to make some modifications. What do you think of them?
1) Slip-skid-ball: didn't work
I've changed the sensitivity (and direction of displacement), and the angle too so that it rotates all along its glass tube. I'm not completely satisfied with its behaviour and I'm still trying to improve it (via FDM), but it's better:
(big-ai.xml)
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<property>/instrumentation/slip-skid-ball/indicated-slip-skid</property>
<factor>-25</factor> <!-- ini 1 -->
<min-deg>-10</min-deg> <!-- ini +/-7 -->
<max-deg>10</max-deg>
2) From my feeling (not based on a knowledge of
this aircraft in real life) the Rudder (alone, with no action on the ailerons) had a much too strong effect on roll.
I prefer this (which can still be adjusted):
(mp339pan.xml)
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<axis name="ROLL">
<function name="aero/coefficient/Clb">
<description>Roll_moment_due_to_beta</description>
............
<property>aero/beta-rad</property>
<value>-0.025</value> <!-- ini -0.1 -->
3) Engines: I had almost no sound, "prop-thrust" had no value in Internal Properties
I replaced it by:
(mp339pan-sound.xml)
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<engine>
<name>engine</name>
.........
<volume>
<property>/engines/engine/thrust_lb</property> <!-- ini prop-thrust -->
Maybe some of these were special to my system, anyway I let you judge for these suggestions, if this can help to still improve (if possible) this very pleasant aircraft.
Cheers
Dany
My Configuration:
Dell XPS 420 with Windows Vista 6.0 (No 6002 ; Service Pack 2) 32 bits
Intel Core Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 3GB
Graphics card: 512 MB ATI Radeon HD 3870 HD
Keyboard with numeric keypad
FlightGear V.2.0.0
Launcher 1.5.2, in French