Modified Airfile for the -32 Series

Hello Skully,

I will certainly give these a try Skully.

Any chance you could look at the 146 and adjust the exaggerated nose high cruise attitude??? I have tried altering the C of G in the aircraft cfg, but clearly I haven't a clue because all I managed to achieve was a distorted VC view! Weird.

"Do you mean the BAE 146 that was made by CLS for Justflight?
If so, I don't own it. Wish I could help."

Yes, that one. Lovely sim in many respects, but I can't imagine The Queen cruising at 5 deg or more nose up - the drinks and the soup would look all wrong, and the external view does too.

But thanks Skully. Still have to try your DC 8 tweaks.

Sorry Skully, but that just doesn't work for me. The nose-up attitude in all stages of flight is 'orrible!

eg
The-33 in cruise, straight and level, 30,000ft, high AUW (295,000lbs), 300kts IAS, .78mach, was 10 degrees nose up.
At 260,000lbs, 308kts/.80M still 9 degrees nose up.
and in app config, level at 4,000ft, 175kts, flaps 23degrees, gear down, still 16 degrees nose up.

and for comparison the unmodified -21 at 30,000ft, similar weight at 308kts/.80M is just 1 degree nose up and looks and feels right.
... and in similar approach config, level, just 2 degrees nose up.

Best of luck - I couldn't do it. Best mod I've managed was to reduce the flap travel speeds.

You're welcome.

I'm not entirely certain what you are trying to achieve. If it is the view over the nose on approach, then in real life raise the seat (in the sim, change the eye-point). If you want to change the fuselage attitude for any given wing config, whether in high level cruise or low on approach, in real life you have to rebuild the aircraft and attach the fuselage at a different angle to the wing! You can of course alter the wing lift and drag characteristics with different flap settings which will give different attitudes for a given flight path, which you have probably done with your slightly different flap angles per notch on the lever. Or alter the wing.

Changing the (fore and aft) C of G, if my creaking memory of basic aerodynamics still serves, won't change the fuselage attitude much - it will require elevator/horizontal stabiliser trim changes to produce more or less lift back there to maintain the balance (more with an aft CG, so a little less lift needed from the main wing to maintain the overall lift balancing the weight of the aircraft, so a teeny weeny bit more nose down attitude, but relatively insignificant, and the drag factor has changed too. It will certainly affect pitch handling, which was another of your aims. However, it may all be very different in the simulation!

The roll response seems ok to me as it is, but we are all different and you clearly have the skills to modify. I think this aircraft, for real, would have been very stable, easy to hand fly. I guess you are looking for something more responsive.

See what yankeeromeo thinks before you take any notice of my input.