I have a problem..

[birdguy]

For two years now, off and on, I have been working on a military ai program for CA59/62. It will include most of the military fighters and bombers of the period including the century series fighters, for Navy, Marine, Air Force and Coast Guard aircraft. 75 aircraft in all (including the MATS aircraft in the California Classics MATS program. It will be limited to California bases of the area plus the Nevada bases (Nellis, Stead, and Fallon).

I have all of the aircraft reworked to fly ai except one. The Historic Jetliners Group KC-135A. It was the only one I could find to match SAC the livery of the originals.

It flies great as an ai aircraft but the other ai aircraft don't recognize it. If the aircraft it is following stops at a hold point the KC-135 just runs over it and also stops at the hold point. When the KC-135 stops at a hold point the following aircraft just runs under it and also stops. All the aircraft still take off in the correct order, but it's like the KC-135 is invisible to other ai aircraft.

Has anyone ever encountered this before? Does anyone have a fix? I've swapped air files and cfg files but nothing seems to work. I'm at a loss.

I just might have to dump the aircraft.

I should have the program ready to deliver in a few weeks. Distribution will be unique. Downloading and reconfiguring 70 aircraft can be a real pain and put people off. So I am including the modified aircraft. But Tom hasn't enough room to include them in a download. So I plan to make the program available via CD for those who have been waiting for military aircraft operating off military bases. I will ask those who want the program to mail me a blank CD along with an address label and return postage. I will copy the program and return it to the sender.

Let me know if this will be acceptable. Otherwise I will have to ask you to find and download the aircraft yourself and make all the configuration changes.

Noel

[jesse]

Noel, have you tried subing a KC-97G for the KC-135 to see if you get the same effect? Also, I'm no expert on AFCAD, but have you double checked to see if all the parameters for Mil aircraft have been included?

Jesse

[Tom/CalClassic]

Noel,

You need to edit the radius value of the plane and make it larger. To do this, Start AFCAD and go to Tools/Aircraft Editor. You will be able to change the radius value there. Most of the jets we use have a radius of about 25m.

Hope this helps,

[Connie Flyer]

great offer on your part and with all the work involved it is well worth your terms. Please keep up the good work and keep us informed, I for one am defininetly interested. Thanks

[birdguy]

Jesse, the KC-97 works perfectly.

Tom, I raised the from teh defalt 21 to 25 and then to 30. No good. It must be something in the model. HJG does not recommen the aircraft for ai (even though it fiels well) and will not support ai. I guess it's one aircraft I'll just have to dump.

Noel

[qxtoolman]

Have you tried Mike Stone's KC135? I realize it's a "R" model, and has CFM engines on it, but it does work good as AI aircraft. Just a thought.....

[birdguy]

There are plenty of KC-135s avalabe from Mike Stone and Project AI. But they are have modern lo-vis livery and don't fit in with the late 50s - early 60s era.

But I did solve the problem. I found an FS2002 KC-135A from Rok Dolenec that I am able to make work as an ai aircraft after swapping out the air file with the default B737-400 and taking the CalClassic B707 cfg file and swapping out the contact point and lights section. The aircraft doesn't have the classic SAC blue band with white stars, but it is a bare metal livery and sports the red anti-collision paint on the nose and tail that many Air Force planes of the era had. It'll fit right in with the times.

Noel

[Tom/CalClassic]

Hi,

When you get a plane like that, it usually is due to the "center" of the model being defined at the very nose or tail of the aircraft (instead of the CofG). Then the other planes don't really "know" where the plane is located. Nothing you can do. Glad you have a substitute though.