Pushback help

[nofiljawed]

I recently downloaded some A330-300's from Simviation and when I launched the game, I noticed that when I pressed Shift+P, it said that this plane down not support puchback ability. Is it possible to add the pushback ability from other planes because the default planes have pushback ability.

[Dan-TXHills]

The problem is that the tug cannot figure out where to push - the "belly wheel" is confusing it. This is easily fixed by moving the belly wheel a fraction of a foot. Go to the [Contact Point] section of the aircraft.cfg file. Find the wheel that is at the same longitudinal location as the main gear (the first number after the comma in the row point.X-1, - where X is a contact point, 1 = wheel, then there is a comma). Find the one whose lateral position is 0.00 (the lateral position of the main gear will be something positive and something negative with the absolute value of these numbers being the same since they are the same distance from the centerline). Change the contact point that has the same longitudinal position as the main gear (but is on the centerline, so it's lateral position is 0.00) to have a lateral position of 0.0001. This moves it a teensy bit off center. The tug now recognizes the nosewheel (which is on center, the lateral position being 0.00).

This is from Thomas Ruth's A330-300 (Air Europa version). The "belly wheel" is point.3. Note that I commented out the original point.3 line (I simply copied the line and pasted a duplicate of it below the original point.3 line then put two slashes // in front of the first line - FSX will not "read" this line). In the duplicate line below the commented line I changed the lateral position (the second number after the comma) to 0.0001. She will now push back.



[contact_points]
point.0=1, 66.95, 0.00, -16.58, 1181.1, 0, 4.521, 90.0, 1.00, 2.5, 0.7235, 4.0, 4.0, 0, 270.0, 270.0
point.1=1, -18.60, -17.60, -19.98, 1574.8, 1, 4.521, 0.0, 2.61, 1.6, 0.7470, 6.9, 6.9, 2, 270.0, 270.0
point.2=1, -18.60, 17.60, -19.98, 1574.8, 2, 4.521, 0.0, 2.61, 1.6, 0.7470, 7.1, 7.1, 3, 270.0, 270.0
//point.3=1, -18.60, 0.00, -19.98, 1574.8, 2, 4.521, 0.0, 2.61, 1.6, 0.7470, 7.1, 7.1, 3, 270.0, 270.0 - PUSHBACK FIX - CHANGE AS BELOW:
point.3=1, -18.60, 0.0001, -19.98, 1574.8, 2, 4.521, 0.0, 2.61, 1.6, 0.7470, 7.1, 7.1, 3, 270.0, 270.0
point.4=2, -43.97, -97.21, 4.80, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.0, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0000, 0.0, 0.0, 5, 0.0, 0.0
point.5=2, -43.97, 97.21, 4.80, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.0, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0000, 0.0, 0.0, 6, 0.0, 0.0
point.6=2, -107.2, 0.00, 2.53, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.0, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0000, 0.0, 0.0, 9, 0.0, 0.0
point.7=2, 86.35, 0.00, 0.00, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.0, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0000, 0.0, 0.0, 4, 0.0, 0.0

Dan
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