Tamarack Active Winglet mod for the TorqueSim CitationJet 525 1.0.1

Thank you for the addon!  At the moment you have two right (green) navigation lights on the port and starboard winglets.  Line 16 in Winglet_Lights.obj should be changed to "    LIGHT_PARAM    airplane_nav_left_size 1.787966 5.7948413 -7.8896279 0.2 1.0088034".

10 minutes ago, StuartC said:

Thank you for the addon!  At the moment you have two right (green) navigation lights on the port and starboard winglets.  Line 16 in Winglet_Lights.obj should be changed to "    LIGHT_PARAM    airplane_nav_left_size 1.787966 5.7948413 -7.8896279 0.2 1.0088034".

Oh! I thought I fixed this.. Ill take a look! Thanks for the headsup! 

Are the navigation lights on port and starboard sides fixed.

Thanks in advance for all your work on this file and it's fixes.

Jack

 

Edited December 30, 2024 by jacksparrow

6 hours ago, jacksparrow said:

Are the navigation lights on port and starboard sides fixed.

Thanks in advance for all your work on this file and it's fixes.

Jack

 

Not yet, should be up later today 

Edited December 30, 2024 by PilotFidi

Can't get plane maker to load the acf file. My plane maker seems to be always

loading the 650 and ask me to save the file. Can't get it to load another plane.

crashes....

I wanted to share a simple modification I made to the flight model to make an allowance for the reduced drag from the winglets.

In the TorqueSim Discord channel, ProfessorCrash said the range increase is 300nm from 1100nm to 1400nm, a 27% increase in range.  I therefore reduced the fuselage coefficient of drag (cd) by 27% from 0.058 to 0.049.  I assumed a min cd of 0.025 (Plane Maker manual states a very sleek fuselage has a cd of 0.025) and deducted 27% from the difference between the min cd and the current cd, i.e. 0.058 - (0.27 x (0.058 - 0.025)) = 0.049.  In my test flights to date, I am achieving range proportionate with ProfessorCrash's Tamarack performance graph.

If you want to try this, the line to change in the CJ525.acf file is:

P _body/0/_part_cd 0.049

7 hours ago, jacksparrow said:

Can't get plane maker to load the acf file. My plane maker seems to be always

loading the 650 and ask me to save the file. Can't get it to load another plane.

crashes....

Im not sure about that one... Ive never expierenced that.. If I were you I would contact Laminar and report it, and see what they reply.

1 hour ago, StuartC said:

I wanted to share a simple modification I made to the flight model to make an allowance for the reduced drag from the winglets.

In the TorqueSim Discord channel, ProfessorCrash said the range increase is 300nm from 1100nm to 1400nm, a 27% increase in range.  I therefore reduced the fuselage coefficient of drag (cd) by 27% from 0.058 to 0.049.  I assumed a min cd of 0.025 (Plane Maker manual states a very sleek fuselage has a cd of 0.025) and deducted 27% from the difference between the min cd and the current cd, i.e. 0.058 - (0.27 x (0.058 - 0.025)) = 0.049.  In my test flights to date, I am achieving range proportionate with ProfessorCrash's Tamarack performance graph.

If you want to try this, the line to change in the CJ525.acf file is:

P _body/0/_part_cd 0.049

Thats awesome! Good job!