egph From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2006, 205 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 years 2 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 7134 times:
Hello fellow flight-simmers,
I am am long time flight-simmer who has just started flying regularly again after a break of about a year or so. I usually fly the Overland Airbus and Boeing series aircraft for various different airlines. However recently I have acquired the Project Airbus A320. I find the model OK and I have downloaded a freeware panel for it so as not to use the default 734 one. The only problem I do have is that the aircraft is massively underpowered, it taxies OK on a low power setting however on the take-off roll it has the roll length of a fully loaded Jumbo and struggles to climb at all without stalling.
My question is, what bit of the aircraft cfg do I need to tweak to increase the thrust capabilities? I used to be quite proficient at tweaking cfg's a while back but have lost my touch.
Fly2HMO From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (2 years 1 week 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 7031 times:
Quoting egph (Thread starter):
My question is, what bit of the aircraft cfg do I need to tweak to increase the thrust capabilities? I used to be quite proficient at tweaking cfg's a while back but have lost my touch.
I get the feeling your problem is an incorrectly loaded aircraft. Lighten up the fuel/pax loads. No plane will ever fly with 100% pax and fuel. I've noticed that when switching planes FS will mess up the loads. There's no point messing with the CFG unless there is seriously something wrong, which I doubt is the case here.
TheBatman From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 829 posts, RR: 10 Reply 3, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 6978 times:
Quoting EA CO AS (Reply 2): Can't it be done by changing the static thrust data in the aircraft file?
I just did it in FS9 with the default 737-400 (which I never use) I increased the thrust rating from 23,500 lbs each to 43,500. What a blast! With 20k lbs of fuel, I was climbing at 6000 fpm maintaining 260kts IAS. I got up to FL380 very quickly, turned off #2 engine, and still got an overspeed warning!!!
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EDICHC From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 6977 times:
Quoting Fly2HMO (Reply 1): I get the feeling your problem is an incorrectly loaded aircraft. Lighten up the fuel/pax loads. No plane will ever fly with 100% pax and fuel.
I agree, I have found the Project Airbus (realistically) unforgiving if overweight.
egph From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2006, 205 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 6962 times:
Thank you for your responses guys. It seems that shedding 50% of the pax and baggage weight is enough for the plane still to T/O and climb with a good fuel load (so that I can still do the LGW-TFS and LTN-SSH sectors in my EZY Airbus A320). Even then on a test flight from VCV-LAX I found that the plane thundered down the runway, kept level flight and descended and landed fine (on a very low weight and fuel setting) but struggled to climb at anything above 6 degrees nose up (about 1600 fpm). So I increased the static thrust which on the cfg had a warning DO NOT CHANGE on it and it seems to have kind of sorted the climb issue out!
bj87 From Netherlands, joined Jun 2009, 444 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (2 years 1 week 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 6919 times:
Quoting TheBatman (Reply 3): I just did it in FS9 with the default 737-400 (which I never use) I increased the thrust rating from 23,500 lbs each to 43,500. What a blast! With 20k lbs of fuel, I was climbing at 6000 fpm maintaining 260kts IAS. I got up to FL380 very quickly, turned off #2 engine, and still got an overspeed warning!!!
I just tried that. Didn't know a Mooney could climb that fast
JohnKrist From Sweden, joined Jan 2005, 1339 posts, RR: 5 Reply 9, posted (2 years 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 6645 times:
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Quoting KPDX (Reply 8): Easiest way is to increase the thrust_scalar.
Correct, changing the thrust scalar can give a 737 the power of Endevour and then some
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