When you have a aircraft that takes two cities just to make a cord. turn what part of the config file can be changed to reduce this turn radius. If you know how to reduce this radius please explain what I need to change to reduce the radius. Thanks

 

CP

I hope I did get your question correctly.

 

The turn radius is influenced mainly by your speed (TAS) and the angle of bank. So there may not be much to change in the config file. You either go slower or bank harder, or both.

 

Perhaps check if the turn really stays coordinated. That would be an error source, e.g. with slow or limited reactions from the Yaw Damper. Or just wrong or too subtle manual rudder inputs.

 

FSX has an option autorudder in the realism menu. To test, it may help enabling it as the ball will stay centred all the way. I guess.

CP

 

Any specific aircraft or all of the defaults in in your sim?

CoolIP is correct, just wondering if if bank angle is set low in a Heavy Bird.

 

Gason

A/c is xb-70. I'm trying to use the AP to intercept app. With AP engaged it turns way to slow and keeps crossing the GS. I even tried a approach from 40miles out and 30 degree to rw and just will not turn in a short enought time to intercept the gs. In fact if you use the AP durning flight to turn 360 it take forever and covers way to much distance. Max bank is 35. Hope this helps

XB-70? Now that one will take forever for turns, when at cruise level and speeds. Keep in mind that the main influence is the plane's speed (times two actually) and you would have to compensate with a very large bank angle for that. And it won't do that at cruise as the G-forces would go up.

 

Now, on the approach, you should be slower. And if the AP really allows for 35° bank angle, it should work. However, I have no clue about the approach speeds of that plane or the AP logics, catching the localizer. With those 35° of bank, you can fly up to some 260kts GS and still achieve a standard rate turn, means 3° per second. But that would be a hectic procedure. Slow down.

 

If the flight model doesn't allow for fast changes of the bank angle (low roll rates), those attempts to intercept and correct may indeed fail. But that may be a speed issue.

 

As a very general tip, try to be slow-ish when catching the ILS and then slow down some more when established. Even Concorde didn't do more than 190-210kts in that phase of flight. Hoping it helps a bit.