Hello John, Thanks to Georg Vollnhals I found your emailadres, but becayse I
didn't get an answer I try to reach you through the mailinglist.
I know/saw you made/make a wonderfull cockpit based on the 747 in FlightGear. A
few months ago I started with making a new 747-400 for FlightGear. You could
see some of the results I got so far in this topic on the FG-forum. I already
got the outside model done (need some more details on wings, doors and gear),
the FDM of the existing 747 and a (basic) 3D cockpit. But there are some issues
that I need to solve if I want to make a realistic plane. As you should know
the 744 got not only nosewheel steering, but also steers with the inner
maingear. But these wheels are blocked during takeoff and landing. So you could
only steer with the maingear during taxi. I made the gear steer with JSBSim,
but now I need to do something to block the gear during TO and landing. Do you
have any idea how to do that? And is there a special switch in the cockpit that
blocks the gear or is it an automatic system? I also have a problem with the
fuel tanks. I know there are 8 (and optionally 9) fuel tanks. 3 in each wing, 1
in the tail and 1 or 2 in the body. But if I make 8 tanks in the FDM the tanks
4, 5, 6 and 7 don't work. Only 0, 1, 2 and 3 are being used. But if we want the
fuel system as on the real plane we need more than 4 tanks. Because tanks are
used to stabilize the plane etc. we need multiple tanks. Do you have the right
number of tanks in your FDM? There are some more problems, but they're not that
important as the ones I described above. I don't know how far you changed the
747 that's available on the FG download site. But I can imagine that you have
improved the FDM to make it suitable for your cockpit. Maybey you got some
things in your FDM that I could use... You might also have some extra drawings,
photo's or other info that I could use. Please send me if possible, I need a
lot more than I got. Especially information and measurements of cockpit
instruments. Please let me know if you could help me. I would be really
thankfull! The new model might look better in your cockpit to? Thanks in
advance and happy flying!Gijs de Rooybtw: sorry if my english isn't correct all
time ;)
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