FS2004 What spoils this shot?

[edetroit 933]

[Chock 17,769]

The pushback truck isn't casting a shadow.

[edetroit 933]

17 minutes ago, Chock said:

The pushback truck isn't casting a shadow.

I think it is actually..... that was not the answer anyway.   😊

A clue : Seen the width and position of an Il-76 nosegear.?

[mjw25 42]

Landing gear located too far back.....

[HLJames 2,568]

Changing the brightness of the photo will confirm four wheel/tires and in the proper location directly under the entry door!

HLJAMES

[ppo 67]

4 wheels and fs9

[edetroit 933]

The IL-76 carries it's own towbar as it needs an extra long towbar because the nose wheel is so far from it's nose.

That is the first clue..... secondly the fact that the width of four nose wheels precludes the use of a towbarless tractor.

To summarise, she needs a big tractor with an extra long towbar.

As you can see AES has sent an inappropriate truck (A towbarless tractor). It does this more often than not.

I have asked Oliver (AES owner) for the ability to choose which truck to use years and years ago. But he obviously feels this is not important.

FWIW The An-124 also carries it's own towbar as she has two separate nose wheels and needs a special towbar....... and NOT a towbarless tractor.

Ok these are special aircraft. But even with your run of the mill aircraft different airports use different trucks.

 

So the answer is: The towbarless tractor is inappropriate. The tractor is placed at the correct distance from the aircraft but as you can see there is no towbar between them.  

 

 

[HighBypass 2,339]

I was going to say that the (radar?) bulge under the bomb aimer's, I mean navigator's, position is usually more prominent, however a quick surf of the internets revealed different versions ;) . 

EDIT - as an aside I used to have crash enabled in FSX:SE and one time, without thinking, I used pushback from a ramp position which had a tractor (my airport traffic is turned down very low)..... CRASHHH! One bent Ilyushin!

Edited September 12, 2017 by HighBypass

[edetroit 933]

10 hours ago, HighBypass said:

I was going to say that the (radar?) bulge under the bomb aimer's, I mean navigator's, position is usually more prominent, however a quick surf of the internets revealed different versions ;) . 

 

The IL-76TD-90VD is the chinless more modern version of the classic 76.

Here is an example of the classic 76 towbar ..... how cool would that be? 

How I wish AES was open source.

[sascha 314]

It's heavy Russian iron and FS9, what's not to like?

[edetroit 933]

19 minutes ago, sascha said:

It's heavy Russian iron and FS9, what's not to like?

The thing that is not Russian..... that damn truck.

[sascha 314]

21 hours ago, edetroit said:

So the answer is: The towbarless tractor is inappropriate. The tractor is placed at the correct distance from the aircraft but as you can see there is no towbar between them.  

 

 

This probably is a relatively minor update, giving people a choice of trucks to call.

[edetroit 933]

2 hours ago, sascha said:

This probably is a relatively minor update, giving people a choice of trucks to call.

Somebody Pleeeeaaase tell the developer. I have run out of patience to be able to ask civilly 

[HUSSAR 263]

You are going to drive yourself crazy obsessing about this, it's not worth the hassle.  Last resort is to post on eastern europe's forums or the developers forum/FaceBook and make the request and see if that leverages them into designing what you want.

Good luck, hope it works out for you.

[edetroit 933]

On 9/13/2017 at 6:55 PM, HUSSAR said:

 

Good luck, hope it works out for you.

 

Oliver will not listen to me.... I have known that for years. I was interested in as to whether any other Simmers felt the way I do and if so to speak up. But it is clear that most do not care, do not know the difference between trucks or have all moved on to P3D. 

I could model the truck and bar that is not the problem. The problem is AES is the only decent pushback etc software for FS9 and it has no competition.

I will not mention it here again...... where is that dead horse emoticon.?