140 on floats

[Guest]

Congrats to Brian Gladden on the 140. I am having trouble getting the new 140 on floats to sit on top of the water. Could someone tell me how and what to change in the aircraft config file to fix ?Thank you very muchy2k2pilot

[Guest slydon]

I D/L'd it and have the same problem. Don

[Brian_Gladden 0]

OOOOPS, I missed a line in the contact points that controls the gear retraction.... you are trying to fly it "gear up"Paste this into the aircraft cfg under the (contact points) headingstatic_pitch = 5static_cg_height = 4.3max_number_of_points = 10//0 Class//1 Longitudinal Position (feet)//2 Lateral Position (feet)//3 Vertical Position (feet)//4 Impact Damage Threshold (Feet Per Minute)//5 Brake Map (0=None, 1=Left, 2=Right)//6 Wheel Radius (feet)//7 Steer Angle (degrees)//8 Static Compression (feet) (0 if rigid)//9 Max/Static Compression Ratio//10 Damping Ratio (0=Undamped, 1=Critically Damped)//11 Extension Time (seconds)//12 Retraction Time (seconds)//13 Sound Typepoint.0 = 4, -5.9546, -3.25, -3.9, 1968, 0, 0, 0, 0.3, 2.5, 0.8, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0point.1 = 4, -5.9554, 3.25, -3.9, 1968, 0, 0, 0, 0.3, 2.5, 0.8, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0point.2 = 4, 5.0607, -3.25, -4.9, 1968, 0, 0, 0, 0.3, 2.5, 0.8, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0point.3 = 4, 5.0607, 3.25, -4.9, 1968, 0, 0, 0, 0.3, 2.5, 0.8, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0point.4 = 2, 4.8047, 0, -2.0602, 2000, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0point.5 = 2, -13.8924, 0, -0.714, 2000, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0point.6 = 2, 0, 16, 1.3336, 2000, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 0, 0point.7 = 2, 0, -16, 1.3336, 2000, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0point.8 = 5, -8.4418, -3.2458, -4.0095, 2500, 0, 0, 28, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0point.9 = 5, -8.4418, 3.2458, -4.0095, 2500, 0, 0, 28, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0Give that a shot.Brian