Also we still can’t do differential braking besides with airbrakes—bummer since a lot of small aircraft have free castering nose wheels and can only steer on the ground with brakes!
Ok when I saw “parking brake that actually uses the wheel brake” I was really confused. So I tried to figure out how you did it by checking the wheel’s xml but then I realized the buttons input is just brake! Genius, I never would have thought of that.
Unfortunately though, it’s not exactly perfect because it still slides a little—the engine power is stronger than the brakes and increasing the braketorque is obviously bad so pistons might still be better.
They really need to let us use ft expressions for braking power but still nice idea, I’m definitely going to use that
@X99STRIKER @ollielebananiaCFSP btw you could just upload the images online to something like imgbb.com and then I could just click the link but whatever it’s ok
@OrderlyHippo it’s because they want to churn out the best pilots on the earth rather than the best autopilot operators haha
Kind of like the explanation for top gun, where they are trying to teach strategical dogfighting tactics rather than using long range missiles and just relying on having bigger engines and better g suits
@ReturnOfJeffChandler ok lol great...
1. Terrain avoidance is impossible because there is no radar -- just the AltitudeAgl but thats just directly under your plane
2. Wing flex is REALLY commonly used by the airliner building section of the community, so I'm not gonna pretend I invented it lol
3. High Alpha, Stall Recovery, etc is GuyFolk's stuff. Talk to him
4. Auto takeoff? Push the throttle to full and set trim to the bottom lmao
5. The waypoint thing is a fun idea but also VERY simple. Just plug a trig expression into a heading hold expression. I can explain it to you and you can probably do it yourself.
@OrderlyHippo just an increasing pitch input as your AltitudeAgl decreases. It is very rudimentary and relies entirely on the perfection of the glideslope and autothrottle. Hopefully one day I can sit down and really make it work, coding to maintain a vertical speed which decreases until 0 as you touch down.
@pilotman10 I tried that. The issue is that the data on target elevation and heading is vector based, so as you get closer it becomes more sensitive. So as you get closer, the oscillations get very bad and the autopilot loses stability altogether. Plus, the accuracy necessary to capture the drogue is insane. So I guess you're stuck with hand-flying for now.
I guess this is becoming part of my wasp autopilot demos series lol. Let me know what else you want to see me force the plane into doing for you!
Btw my Citation has autothrottle added into the approach codes. It slows down as you approach the airport. Also a very primitive automatic flare, despite being unrealistic for the CJ4
@jamesPLANESii weight saving for shorter takeoff distance. Only implemented in the newer Gen 2 models
Others may call it being too lazy and wanting to experiment with ft instead but you know
@asteroidbook345 yeah the only “doors,” which I wouldn’t even consider doors, are the ones connected to the gear strut. The pivot points are probably different for the two but it’s not that difficult.
Although I do typically overuse XML so lg is always rlly buggy for me.
@asteroidbook345 if I focus then I can usually get main wings to a good standard. Main gear WOULD be tough bc of the whole folding into the wings thing, but at least there is no doors so the wheel can be showing on the bottom. Ill find out in the next few days ig
@AlexRol05 well the variables HeadPi, AltPi, and RatePi are for the respectable autopilot functions. Just copy those variables into a new plane and then add the pitch ones into the elevator inputs and the heading ones into the aileron inputs.
If you're wondering how the code works, I basically just made a system which makes the aircraft wings level. So if it senses it is banking to the left, it'll add right aileron and if it is pitching down, it will pull up. Then say, to make it roll left 60° I will just subtract 60 from the RollAngle, making the aircraft think it is rolled 60 degrees right and it will correct for that.
So to make it hold a heading you just have to have that artificial error be put in by FT expressions, like clamp(deltaangle(Heading, Trim * 180), -60, 60). So it will take the difference between your Heading and Trim * 180. Then I'm just clamping it to between negative and positive 60, so even if the heading is off by 80° it will onlyy roll 60.
@Rjenteissussy haha yes
+1@Sklimber thanks!
@Stanmich I think I was following like an Etsy post or sum lol so not my idea but thx
+1@IceCraftGaming ikr! There is a slight gradient tho, it’s lighter blue on the left side
+2@Hiimakeplanes yep, here and that’s the whole reason why I built this plane lol
@FlyingPatriot just asked for it to become a successor. This is my entry.
Nvm I'll give it wings anyway
+1Does it have to fly?
+1@rexzion ha thanks yeah they were scary to make as well
+1Some of the stuff is glitchy, sorry. This is out of my comfort zone(and device performance lol). Also ummm... don't leave the 3 cockpit cams!
Its fine
@CanadianAircraftBuilder thx
+1@zwen oh thanks! I was really wanting to do that so I’ll fix it tonight. Just didn’t know how
+1Just realized the "Ignition" switch should be labeled "starter" Sorry, stupid mistake
@KangBaksoSoeharto probably not, Im working on a different project right now
Also we still can’t do differential braking besides with airbrakes—bummer since a lot of small aircraft have free castering nose wheels and can only steer on the ground with brakes!
+1Ok when I saw “parking brake that actually uses the wheel brake” I was really confused. So I tried to figure out how you did it by checking the wheel’s xml but then I realized the buttons input is just brake! Genius, I never would have thought of that.
+1Unfortunately though, it’s not exactly perfect because it still slides a little—the engine power is stronger than the brakes and increasing the braketorque is obviously bad so pistons might still be better.
They really need to let us use ft expressions for braking power but still nice idea, I’m definitely going to use that
HahA @MrCOPTY
+2@X99STRIKER gracias
+1@MrTrolling09 so unfortunate to hear
+1I go on vacation in my dads '16 Tacoma
@MrTrolling09 lucky!
+1Requested tags below
@NARGII
@Bryan5
@BeastHunter
+1@Rework
@rexzion
@IICXLVIICDLXXXIIIDCXLVII ok thanks
@X99STRIKER @ollielebananiaCFSP btw you could just upload the images online to something like imgbb.com and then I could just click the link but whatever it’s ok
@Ian_Yashima could you please do screenshots for me on this? That would be awesome
@X99STRIKER just like a thumbnail shot, anything that looks cool and captures most of the plane. Then maybe a few more to put in the desc
@ollielebananiaCFSP and if I don't have discord?
@ollielebananiaCFSP I heard you make teaser videos and screenshots for people! Can you do that here pretty please?
@OrderlyHippo it’s because they want to churn out the best pilots on the earth rather than the best autopilot operators haha
+3Kind of like the explanation for top gun, where they are trying to teach strategical dogfighting tactics rather than using long range missiles and just relying on having bigger engines and better g suits
@pilotman10 yeah that one doesn’t even come close to working for me sorry
+1@IMULAerospaceIndustries oh yeah
+1@ReturnOfJeffChandler ok lol great...
+31. Terrain avoidance is impossible because there is no radar -- just the AltitudeAgl but thats just directly under your plane
2. Wing flex is REALLY commonly used by the airliner building section of the community, so I'm not gonna pretend I invented it lol
3. High Alpha, Stall Recovery, etc is GuyFolk's stuff. Talk to him
4. Auto takeoff? Push the throttle to full and set trim to the bottom lmao
5. The waypoint thing is a fun idea but also VERY simple. Just plug a trig expression into a heading hold expression. I can explain it to you and you can probably do it yourself.
@OrderlyHippo just an increasing pitch input as your
+1AltitudeAgldecreases. It is very rudimentary and relies entirely on the perfection of the glideslope and autothrottle. Hopefully one day I can sit down and really make it work, coding to maintain a vertical speed which decreases until 0 as you touch down.@pilotman10 I tried that. The issue is that the data on target elevation and heading is vector based, so as you get closer it becomes more sensitive. So as you get closer, the oscillations get very bad and the autopilot loses stability altogether. Plus, the accuracy necessary to capture the drogue is insane. So I guess you're stuck with hand-flying for now.
+1@TRD yep! You may need to adjust the gains a little but just copy the variables over!
+2I guess this is becoming part of my wasp autopilot demos series lol. Let me know what else you want to see me force the plane into doing for you!
Btw my Citation has autothrottle added into the approach codes. It slows down as you approach the airport. Also a very primitive automatic flare, despite being unrealistic for the CJ4
@realSavageMan oooh that would be cool. And actually pretty acheivable since we are just a rectangle
@jamesPLANEScdxxLXIX haha same, I now regret zooming in
Wow, you really nailed my state. Some people struggle with Colorado but this is a different story
+1Make Grand County, CO now!
@jamesPLANESii weight saving for shorter takeoff distance. Only implemented in the newer Gen 2 models
+1Others may call it being too lazy and wanting to experiment with ft instead but you know
@ReturnOfJeffChandler You
@NARGII @Bryan5
+1@BeastHunter @Rework @rexzion
+2@AlexRol05 yeah idk how to hold current
+1@asteroidbook345 yeah the only “doors,” which I wouldn’t even consider doors, are the ones connected to the gear strut. The pivot points are probably different for the two but it’s not that difficult.
Although I do typically overuse XML so lg is always rlly buggy for me.
@asteroidbook345 if I focus then I can usually get main wings to a good standard. Main gear WOULD be tough bc of the whole folding into the wings thing, but at least there is no doors so the wheel can be showing on the bottom. Ill find out in the next few days ig
@rexzion ok so just to be sure, I’m going to, umm
@BeastHunter @Rework @NARGII 50% chance I remember those haha usually don’t do a teaser like this
+1@AlexRol05 well the variables
+1HeadPi,AltPi, andRatePiare for the respectable autopilot functions. Just copy those variables into a new plane and then add the pitch ones into the elevator inputs and the heading ones into the aileron inputs.If you're wondering how the code works, I basically just made a system which makes the aircraft wings level. So if it senses it is banking to the left, it'll add right aileron and if it is pitching down, it will pull up. Then say, to make it roll left 60° I will just subtract 60 from the RollAngle, making the aircraft think it is rolled 60 degrees right and it will correct for that.
So to make it hold a heading you just have to have that artificial error be put in by FT expressions, like
clamp(deltaangle(Heading, Trim * 180), -60, 60). So it will take the difference between yourHeadingandTrim * 180. Then I'm just clamping it to between negative and positive 60, so even if the heading is off by 80° it will onlyy roll 60.