@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.
@klm747klm747 yeah, I noticed that problem on my phone but not on my tablet. The issue is just that because both glide slope and localizer are vector-based, they will get more sensitive the closer you get to the runway. I think I could solve this by taking out some of the P gain as you approach the runway.
Could you explain how you did the labels on the main panel please? I'm pretty advanced with ft and I'm doing a lot of reading into formatting for the new labels but idk how you're doing all that.
@FoxtrotCharlieCharlieX yeah, I created a plane with a glide slope and localizer code you had to follow manually. He said he hoped IFR wasn’t that hard or he was screwed for his lessons starting in a week
@klm747klm747 @PlaneFlightX yeah, it's not perfect and I sure as hell wouldn't trust myself with this IRL. But I can somehow consistently fly this thing in from pretty far out and somehow find the runway
Im not going to read all the comments to see if someone already asked this, and it's irrelevant to me anyways because I play on mobile but whatever. I think you should make those little control panels that go above every passenger seat. If you don't know what I mean, they have:
Aimable fans
Aimable lights
Call attendant button
No smoking light
Seatbelt sign
Obviously you wouldnt make the light and fan moveable but on a real plane you can aim them wherever you want
@Deandash yeah, the 4 or 5 degrees you see here is not exactly realistic to real life haha. SP physics makes air behave more like water, very hard to squeeze and shape. Essentially the wing just goes whatever direction it's pointing, which means higher AoAs are really difficult to hit without a super unstable plane like GuyFolk makes. So IRL it would be landing at much higher AoA than here.
Also landing at low AoA is super dangerous because the speed is way higher than it needs to be. So yeah sorry to poop on your design so much but in all honesty, it's cool and I like it, but it just probably wouldn't be a thing. Also because like engine maintenance and stuff it would be better below the wing.
@jamesPLANESii @JohnnyBoythePilot yeah the fancy buttons are the cherry on top of this cockpit. But what I like most is either the radio or what I'm assuming is the fuel computer? That little installement in the top left of the panel with two blue lights and one red, it looks like my friends fuel computer... not sure why it says 203 • C tho lol
@rexzion yeah ik, I feel like theres also a delta plane that has a variant like this(maybe a mirage or a saab I think) and the extra electronics is sometimes jamming and electronic warfare
@WaitBreadIsntAfruit @asteroidbook345 another thing to note with turbo aircraft is that they typically operate at very low throttle. I haven't looked into this plane, but I would assume they only take off with around 50% throttle. This is surely the case in all singe-engine turbos I have ever flown / flown in. I asked the instructor why we use such a low throttle and he said the upper percentiles are for emergency only.
All this to say, looks like the plane has around 1100 horsepower. However, the takeoff run is likely much longer than you could expect for this power, as the pilots probably wouldn't be running full throttle.
@Mage2IsTriggered especially the accesibility. A Formula Vee costs around $10,000 to buy and a few grand a year to maintain(including tires etc). If you are an adult in a full time job, you can totally afford that, even if it is a bit expensive. And that's what intrigues me the most about entry-class open wheel racing.
Yo, I read the first line and I was like, well, I saw a video of an Italian guy driving a "Formula Predator" and that comes just before F4 too. Started reading the rest then lol
I had no idea how many private open wheel racing leagues there are until recently, for example the Australian "Formula Vee," basically this but no downforce and less horsepower.
But yeah this is a really intriguing concept to me, especially people homebuilding their own cars. Like being an F1 driver, engineer, and mechanic all in one.
@BreadIsAfruit yeah lol I was probably confusing. Thanks for reading it tho
I can't resist from trying to re-explain the torque/gear ratio thing tho. Basically, what I meant is, if you just have the piston lifting the platform, we can say it has a length of 1 unit. But by building the scissor arm size differently in the "piston behind" position, you can adjust whether the piston length is 2 units, or 0.5 units. That way, you can be more compact, or maybe if the piston it longer then you can be more precise in platform height.
Idk probably comfused you more lmao
Yeah that's cool how the pistons are behind it, I would've thought to put it in the middle too but obviously then the scissor is nearly useless.
I'm sure there's like a torque/gear ratio(but no gears lol) thing behind it, why the piston is more useful there. But of course it has to be used in real life so that arrangement allows for easy packaging(the piston can be under a truck cab for example) but also it would be easier to service if the hydraulics leak or something, due to the piston being closer to the ground. Anyway just some thoughts
Cool build though
Lol idk, this just isn't a project for SP. First of all SP is really just for rigid bodies, a while ago some of the community put in a solid effort towards making a paraglider. Bagelplane and Asteriodbook345 are two off the top of my head if you want to check that out.
Additionally your surfboard is gonna need some crazy underwater wings if you want this to happen. IRL surfers can obtain almost 0 lateral motion through the water, which is why sailboats and things like this can tack upwind.
To be honest I don't think its possible currently to make a non-janky model of this. Maybe try making a solid kite(stand-alone) and then MAYBE it's possible. Hope this helped
@Bellcat no cockpit sorry
I think the smoothing can look unnatural and weird, due to it just being a shaders adjustment. So i wanted to go with a more clean build
@AlexRol05 yeah idk how to hold current
+1@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.@klm747klm747 yeah, I noticed that problem on my phone but not on my tablet. The issue is just that because both glide slope and localizer are vector-based, they will get more sensitive the closer you get to the runway. I think I could solve this by taking out some of the P gain as you approach the runway.
+1@klm747klm747 you might find this one interesting…
+1Could you explain how you did the labels on the main panel please? I'm pretty advanced with ft and I'm doing a lot of reading into formatting for the new labels but idk how you're doing all that.
+1@FoxtrotCharlieCharlieX yeah, I created a plane with a glide slope and localizer code you had to follow manually. He said he hoped IFR wasn’t that hard or he was screwed for his lessons starting in a week
+1@rexzion holy shit I actually laughed when I saw that
+1@ReturnOfJeffChandler yeah yeah
+1@ReturnOfJeffChandler yesss
+1@Reworkable oh thanks!
+1@MrCOPTY yeah just give me credit please
+1@klm747klm747 @PlaneFlightX yeah, it's not perfect and I sure as hell wouldn't trust myself with this IRL. But I can somehow consistently fly this thing in from pretty far out and somehow find the runway
+1@PlaneFlightX haha I just made my own ILS instead. You should try this thing, it's really fun.
+1Im not going to read all the comments to see if someone already asked this, and it's irrelevant to me anyways because I play on mobile but whatever. I think you should make those little control panels that go above every passenger seat. If you don't know what I mean, they have:
+1Aimable fans
Aimable lights
Call attendant button
No smoking light
Seatbelt sign
Obviously you wouldnt make the light and fan moveable but on a real plane you can aim them wherever you want
@SimonGlaser ok I'll make a prototype and test this out. Thanks for the challenge!
+1Here's my entry, Mercedes Zetros 2020
+1@Deandash yeah, the 4 or 5 degrees you see here is not exactly realistic to real life haha. SP physics makes air behave more like water, very hard to squeeze and shape. Essentially the wing just goes whatever direction it's pointing, which means higher AoAs are really difficult to hit without a super unstable plane like GuyFolk makes. So IRL it would be landing at much higher AoA than here.
+1Also landing at low AoA is super dangerous because the speed is way higher than it needs to be. So yeah sorry to poop on your design so much but in all honesty, it's cool and I like it, but it just probably wouldn't be a thing. Also because like engine maintenance and stuff it would be better below the wing.
@Diloph aww man I didn't see it coming
+1@Diloph WhO's sUGma
+1@jamesPLANESii ok thanks for the feedback.
+1@OrderlyHippo ye lol bc it doesnt exist
+1@OrderlyHippo yeah coming soon
+1@IceCraftGaming this is a real thing lol I see several a day in the winter
+1@jamesPLANESii @JohnnyBoythePilot yeah the fancy buttons are the cherry on top of this cockpit. But what I like most is either the radio or what I'm assuming is the fuel computer? That little installement in the top left of the panel with two blue lights and one red, it looks like my friends fuel computer... not sure why it says 203 • C tho lol
+1@WolfHunter9111 eh - this is more of a track racer due to the lack of suspension and low ride height
+1@BaconAircraft wait I've heard of the memes and stuff around that but would they actually make a big deal over something like this?
+1@GrFrog thanks!
+1@rexzion yeah ik, I feel like theres also a delta plane that has a variant like this(maybe a mirage or a saab I think) and the extra electronics is sometimes jamming and electronic warfare
+1@rexzion it reminds me of a su34 because of the smooth canopy neck thing
+1Haha didn't even see this lol
+1@WaitBreadIsntAfruit @asteroidbook345 another thing to note with turbo aircraft is that they typically operate at very low throttle. I haven't looked into this plane, but I would assume they only take off with around 50% throttle. This is surely the case in all singe-engine turbos I have ever flown / flown in. I asked the instructor why we use such a low throttle and he said the upper percentiles are for emergency only.
+1All this to say, looks like the plane has around 1100 horsepower. However, the takeoff run is likely much longer than you could expect for this power, as the pilots probably wouldn't be running full throttle.
@Mage2IsTriggered especially the accesibility. A Formula Vee costs around $10,000 to buy and a few grand a year to maintain(including tires etc). If you are an adult in a full time job, you can totally afford that, even if it is a bit expensive. And that's what intrigues me the most about entry-class open wheel racing.
+1Yo, I read the first line and I was like, well, I saw a video of an Italian guy driving a "Formula Predator" and that comes just before F4 too. Started reading the rest then lol
+1I had no idea how many private open wheel racing leagues there are until recently, for example the Australian "Formula Vee," basically this but no downforce and less horsepower.
But yeah this is a really intriguing concept to me, especially people homebuilding their own cars. Like being an F1 driver, engineer, and mechanic all in one.
@IceCraftGaming yeah, this is the video I saw
+1@BreadIsAfruit yeah lol I was probably confusing. Thanks for reading it tho
+1I can't resist from trying to re-explain the torque/gear ratio thing tho. Basically, what I meant is, if you just have the piston lifting the platform, we can say it has a length of 1 unit. But by building the scissor arm size differently in the "piston behind" position, you can adjust whether the piston length is 2 units, or 0.5 units. That way, you can be more compact, or maybe if the piston it longer then you can be more precise in platform height.
Idk probably comfused you more lmao
Yeah that's cool how the pistons are behind it, I would've thought to put it in the middle too but obviously then the scissor is nearly useless.
+1I'm sure there's like a torque/gear ratio(but no gears lol) thing behind it, why the piston is more useful there. But of course it has to be used in real life so that arrangement allows for easy packaging(the piston can be under a truck cab for example) but also it would be easier to service if the hydraulics leak or something, due to the piston being closer to the ground. Anyway just some thoughts
Cool build though
@OrderlyHippo haha stop using the prerotor
+1Lol idk, this just isn't a project for SP. First of all SP is really just for rigid bodies, a while ago some of the community put in a solid effort towards making a paraglider. Bagelplane and Asteriodbook345 are two off the top of my head if you want to check that out.
+1Additionally your surfboard is gonna need some crazy underwater wings if you want this to happen. IRL surfers can obtain almost 0 lateral motion through the water, which is why sailboats and things like this can tack upwind.
To be honest I don't think its possible currently to make a non-janky model of this. Maybe try making a solid kite(stand-alone) and then MAYBE it's possible. Hope this helped
@Bellcat no cockpit sorry
+1I think the smoothing can look unnatural and weird, due to it just being a shaders adjustment. So i wanted to go with a more clean build
I totally hit the contained bomb bay phase a while ago too. Didnt go anywhere, sadly tho
+1@GuyFolk the narrator sounds like Mike Rowe. He has a podcast and he has the show "dirty jobs"
+1@Kangy congrats on 8,509 :)
+1Is that Mike Rowe lol?
+1@KnightOfRen maybe you'll like this, I totally get why you love the Mandalorian now
+1@T8flightcrafts thanks!
+1@TheGliderGuy thanks!
+1@Bishobe
+1lets go
@DeepFriedIndustries
+1lets go
@TheFlyingWolfYT @Th3rmoplylae @CygnusMei
+1lets go