This is just my opinion, without having flown the plane and assuming your wings arent too small or the nose too heavy, but your landing gear is probably pulling the nose down.
The fixed landing gear has drag, and as the plane is pulled forward by the engine, the landing gear is pulled backward by drag, causing the plane to "trip over its feet" so to speak. This happens a lot with float planes and @jamesPLANESii should know better.
There are two ways to improve the situation. Either XML edit each part of the landing gear to have no drag, or enlarge the horizontal stabilizer and angle it leading-edge-downwards by around 1 or 2 degrees. Setting the air foil on the main wings (not the tail) to "flat bottom" may also help.
@Tazziedevil04 Don't feel too bad about download vs upvote. Only about 5% of players ever log into the website, so downloads usually dwarf upvotes if you've done a good job.
As a matter of fact, if a plane has as many upvotes as downloads, it usually means that the plane looks good but flies like crap.
@Tazziedevil04 Not in this post, but on a couple of your planes. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that you're getting pretty good and I think you'll probably keep getting better.
The wings are too small. You can use XML to make bigger wings and then shrink them down to fit, but this thing is basically an elephant with a pair of bee-wings.
Look up three-view pictures of real AWACS aircraft and note how big the wings are compared to the plane. Keep in mind that in Simple Planes only the "wing" pieces actually give the plane lift, not the fuselage blocks and other stuff that might be used to make what looks like a wing.
This plane looks awesome by the way. I love the paint job and it's got a really interesting shape, too.
@CSP27 That's too many parts. Try using a fuselage intake or a wheel ( I know that sounds weird, but I can show you how) for the engine cowling. Obviously, this is your thing and you can make what you want, just suggestions.
@RamboJutter No need to be sorry. The Navy had plenty of trouble with that ridiculous bomb bay in real life, so you can certainly consider this build "realistic."
@Trijets Its a bit of math to resize the picture properly, but once that's done you can easily measure anything by using the rectangular selection tool like a tape measure. Just make sure you type out how many pixels per block right there on the picture so you dont forget.
@Jacobdaniel Naw, everyone but you has been playing it for weeks. It's a real treat! We were gonna clue you in but then you made this thread, and well, it'd be against the rules.
To back up your claim about the TU-160, the only plane that could theoretically carry a higher weapon load was the enormous B-36 Peacemaker, but doing so would limit its range to uselessness. The TU-160 is literally the biggest, baddest, fastest, nastiest bomber ever to fly.
@Dimkal I don't think I will be able to complete my maritime strike Backfire in time for the 29th. If you can delay the due date, I would be grateful. But you've already given us plenty of time to complete our entries, so I understand if you decide not to.
When you select a part in Overload, it lists the type of part at the top of the window. Next to that name tag is a tab pull down that lists various things (generic part stuff like position etc. Input stuff life activation group etc. and part-specific stuff) Search through the tabs untill you find what you need.
I think that is how gyros work. I usually use rotators on pitch/roll input for turrets for ease of use, nice sustained movement, easy to orient, familiar to most gamers.
@jamesPLANESii Same here. I know I shouldn't piss all over other peoples beliefs, but it is very hard for me to control myself when confronted by that stuff.
Study photos of the real thing to fet a deel for where things like landing gear should be. The center of mass is usualy a few feet ahead of the main landing gear. Knowing where to put the center of mass will help make the plane handle more realistically and takeoff/land better.
@Trijets 32 is fine. The Spitfire had 26, but you've got 2 engines. Did you read my explanation?
This is just my opinion, without having flown the plane and assuming your wings arent too small or the nose too heavy, but your landing gear is probably pulling the nose down.
The fixed landing gear has drag, and as the plane is pulled forward by the engine, the landing gear is pulled backward by drag, causing the plane to "trip over its feet" so to speak. This happens a lot with float planes and @jamesPLANESii should know better.
There are two ways to improve the situation. Either XML edit each part of the landing gear to have no drag, or enlarge the horizontal stabilizer and angle it leading-edge-downwards by around 1 or 2 degrees. Setting the air foil on the main wings (not the tail) to "flat bottom" may also help.
@Tazziedevil04 Don't feel too bad about download vs upvote. Only about 5% of players ever log into the website, so downloads usually dwarf upvotes if you've done a good job.
As a matter of fact, if a plane has as many upvotes as downloads, it usually means that the plane looks good but flies like crap.
@Tazziedevil04 Not in this post, but on a couple of your planes. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that you're getting pretty good and I think you'll probably keep getting better.
You've got plenty skill to make good planes, you just need to have more faith in your own designs and stop begging for upvotes.
Also, people are much less likely to upvote successor builds, lately you've been building stuff that's 100% yours so keep that up.
The wings are too small. You can use XML to make bigger wings and then shrink them down to fit, but this thing is basically an elephant with a pair of bee-wings.
Look up three-view pictures of real AWACS aircraft and note how big the wings are compared to the plane. Keep in mind that in Simple Planes only the "wing" pieces actually give the plane lift, not the fuselage blocks and other stuff that might be used to make what looks like a wing.
This plane looks awesome by the way. I love the paint job and it's got a really interesting shape, too.
@CSP27 That's too many parts. Try using a fuselage intake or a wheel ( I know that sounds weird, but I can show you how) for the engine cowling. Obviously, this is your thing and you can make what you want, just suggestions.
I like the pistons, but the cowling is meh.
Truck 2 gud. I hate u now.
@RamboJutter Of course you were the first to spot this one!
One of the very first aircraft in a design theme common even today. Nice pick, nice job.
@RamboJutter No need to be sorry. The Navy had plenty of trouble with that ridiculous bomb bay in real life, so you can certainly consider this build "realistic."
@aplayer I'm slowly making an awesome plane, and you will just have to be patient.
@Trijets Nope. I just alt-tab between Simple planes and MS paint.
@Trijets Its a bit of math to resize the picture properly, but once that's done you can easily measure anything by using the rectangular selection tool like a tape measure. Just make sure you type out how many pixels per block right there on the picture so you dont forget.
@RamboJutter I feel bad about telling people how I do this stuff because there's probably a better, faster way than counting pixels in MSpaint.
@aplayer Too bad.
@Jacobdaniel Naw, everyone but you has been playing it for weeks. It's a real treat! We were gonna clue you in but then you made this thread, and well, it'd be against the rules.
@BACconcordepilot It's a European conspiracy, designed to steal our freedom.
There is no such thing as the metric system.
@BogdanX not enough.
@Bogdanx I'murprised you've haven't made this one yet.
Just steal whatever you need offa one of my recent planes. No need to credit me.
@Mattangi2 I mustve missed them.
Nice work, as usual!
To back up your claim about the TU-160, the only plane that could theoretically carry a higher weapon load was the enormous B-36 Peacemaker, but doing so would limit its range to uselessness. The TU-160 is literally the biggest, baddest, fastest, nastiest bomber ever to fly.
@Awsomur Meth is spelled with a t.
@RamboJutter Considered doing the more popular recon version?
Are all parts set to disableaircraftcollisions? How about wheel settings, is suspension disabled? What are the traction settings like?
Also: Gotta hand it to you, the Vigi is an excellent choice! I can't wait to see it.
Genocide is spelled with a c.
There was a time when many ships were made of concrete.
@Dimkal I don't think I will be able to complete my maritime strike Backfire in time for the 29th. If you can delay the due date, I would be grateful. But you've already given us plenty of time to complete our entries, so I understand if you decide not to.
@aplayer Working on one now. I am slow.
Check this out
@sunburn All is forgiven, my brother.
@AviownCorp 3D wings that curve, instead of the flat kind. It's a lot of work, but worth it.
HIS NAME IS @HELLFIREKODER
When you select a part in Overload, it lists the type of part at the top of the window. Next to that name tag is a tab pull down that lists various things (generic part stuff like position etc. Input stuff life activation group etc. and part-specific stuff) Search through the tabs untill you find what you need.
I think that is how gyros work. I usually use rotators on pitch/roll input for turrets for ease of use, nice sustained movement, easy to orient, familiar to most gamers.
The P-51 didn't have a jet engine, it had a supercharger.
Very impressive, please link me when it's uploaded.
@jamesPLANESii Same here. I know I shouldn't piss all over other peoples beliefs, but it is very hard for me to control myself when confronted by that stuff.
@EternalDarkness Max=-100 lololol
Study photos of the real thing to fet a deel for where things like landing gear should be. The center of mass is usualy a few feet ahead of the main landing gear. Knowing where to put the center of mass will help make the plane handle more realistically and takeoff/land better.
@EternalDarkness Just like real life!
WHEN IN THE HELL ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE AN ARMORED TRAIN?
Steal the one from my 105. Two of those are more than enough.
@AikoFoxNeko Steal the wings off of my F-105. They're structural with flaps, ailerons etc.
@AikoFoxNeko Yeah, I think the fastest I ever got without modding was mach 2.
@AikoFoxNeko They all need to get refuelled. Everything fast, anyway. You can run a car all year on the gas an F-15 burns in one minute.
@planelover400 Working on a Sov Jet. Considering doing a B-36