can't fly

It's been painful but I think I've done it. As you say the air creation trike isn't too bad. What I didn't realise is just how nose heavy it is. To fix the plummeting glide I added another fuel tank in the aircraft's config file like thus :- [fuel] Center1= -2.70, 0.00, -10.80, 10.00, 0.00 fuel_type=1.000000 number_of_tank_selectors=1 electric_pump=0 engine_driven_pump=0 Center2= -2.70, 0.00, -10.80, 10.00, 0.00 fuel_type=1.000000 number_of_tank_selectors=1 electric_pump=0 engine_driven_pump=0 Then in the payload I subtracted the extra fuel from the pilot weight (-60 lbs) and voila the trike handles a lot more realistically. glide in hands off trim 450ft per min. Much better. Thanks again to everybody who made suggestions. Dave.

Thanks for all your responses. Especially Paul who has spent some time on this. I'll have a big play with the cfg and report back if I have any success. It's a shame that there isn't a decent trike model on the market as I would certainly buy it.

Ok. I've copied it over.

Hi,thanks, nice to be here.I'm using the trike that comes with fsx with no modifications. It's the air creation ultralight trike. I realise that the .air file is associated with the planes' geometry and physics but have no idea of how to edit this file.Is this where I need to start to extend the glide? I would buy a flexwing addon plane if there was such a thing.

Hi.I'm new to this so please be gentle.I've built somebody a trike flight sim using fsx. This has gone pretty well. I've got a control bar hanging off an upside down joystick and it has 3 42" monitors running on an ati eyefinity card. The amd 1100t keeps things running smoothly. It really is quite cool.The problem that we are now having is how the air creation trike actually flies. It reacts really well to all the control inputs until you drop the power and put it into a glide. It effectively drops like a stone with a desent rate of over 1000ft per minute. This is not how the trike that I'm modelling behaves. It's a mainair flash 2 alpha which has a glide of about 700ft per minute. I've tried altering the weights and balance with the payload and fuel but it still shows the plane nose heavy whatever I do. What I'm hoping is that somebody out there knows how to tweak some of the files to change the characteristics of the plane. Namely extend the glide.Any help would be much appreciated.Dave