Aircraft radius?

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Jive1 Trainee
Joined: Apr 20, 2005 Posts: 13
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Sun Aug 03, 2008 12:16 pm

Hey!

Where or in which file is the information of the radius of an FS9 aircraft, and, is it possible to set the radius if the designer forgot to set it? How should I set the radius?
Greetz
Jive1

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Pete (pdegraff) First Officer
Joined: Jan 22, 2005 Posts: 124 Location: Connecticut, USA
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Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:14 am

What radius?
The radius of the propeller? That would be half of its diameter.
Tha operating radius? That would be half of its range (assuming no wind) less reserves for contingencies.

What radius????

Respectfully, Pete

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William A. Jones (waj2306) First Officer
Joined: Jan 27, 2007 Posts: 195 Location: East Vincent, Pennsylvania
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Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:12 pm

Are you refering to the PARKING radius? If this is correct, then use AFCAD to change, adjust or minipulate the parking radius.

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Pete (pdegraff) First Officer
Joined: Jan 22, 2005 Posts: 124 Location: Connecticut, USA
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Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:36 am

But he wants to know what the radius IS! Not how to mess with it (I think)...

(and I am still puzzled by the request....) What's a "parking radius"? Is it the AREA that a plane takes up in a parking space?

Respectfully, Pete

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William A. Jones (waj2306) First Officer
Joined: Jan 27, 2007 Posts: 195 Location: East Vincent, Pennsylvania
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Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:53 am

There are TWO Radius'! One is the actual physical radius the aircraft takes up, and the other is the radius used on the parking spot to tell the flight simulator what SIZE aircraft to park at a given location or gate! Now....if he wants to know an aircrafts radius, he can google that particular manufacturers aicraft for the actual radius. Now...if it is a hybrid aircraft, I take the actual wing span or fuselage length, whichever is longest and add 20% to arive at the radius to PLACE a gate or parking spot using AFCAD!

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Colin Reece (Col7777) First Officer
Joined: Dec 26, 2002 Posts: 129 Location: Manchester UK
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Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:34 am

There is a small program called 'Paking Manager' that sets the radius for you, but you can change it if you want to either lager or smaller, very easy to use.

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