extreme drifting

[Guest]

How can I stop the aircraft from drifting before takeoff? Is it possible to program the fsuipc to help in this? Would appreciate any help.Thanks.

[Guest odog]

mmmm...i dont have fsuipc up and running at the moment, but in the wind section theres a way to disable either the taxi winds or the ground winds or something, id start there and if that doesnt work maybe someone could be more specific.odog

[Guest Stamatis]

Set the "Taxi Winds" to AUTO in FSUIPC.This way the winds will be automatikally set to 1 kt while your wheels are on the ground, and will gradually increase to the actual speed once airborne.Opposite will happen on touchdown during landing.Unfortunately, ground behaviour/handling is very wrong in FS, and especially the weathervaning effect is exaggerated.FSUIPC offers the best solution known to me.Stamatis

[Guest]

You could also turn off P factor in realism. It's there in real life but a bit exaggerated in FS.

[Guest Stamatis]

P factor will do nothing for jets though... :-)

[LAdamson 240]

>You could also turn off P factor in realism. It's there in >real life but a bit exaggerated in FS. With my rudder pedals, it's near perfect..... even the defaults. Without rudder pedals, then it's exaggerated!!L.Adamson

[LAdamson 240]

>P factor will do nothing for jets though... :-) But my jets don't drift, even though I hear "others" do. I'm lucky to get five feet off centerline when I don't touch the pedals.L.Adamson

[Guest Stamatis]

I don't know what each of us classifies as "extreme drifting", but I can tell you that in the real world a 10 kt crosswind requires almost no effort from the pilot to keep his taxi-ing B737 in a straight line while in FS considerable rudder input is required. Never mind a takeoff roll in crosswinds...This is wrong (but I can live with it, thanks to Peter Dawson :-) )Stamatis