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[cbohache]

I am flying the Westwind A332 and when I take-off, FSP won't let me rotate much past 8 degrees. At this attitude, the plane won't lift off till
I get to about 200 kts...not realistic...I over-ran DEN's 16000' runway...twice! It is also a problem landing as I cannot get my rate down
below 400-500 fpm. Is there something I can edit either in the aircraft cfg or in FSPax to change this?

Thanks

[Drew]

At a random guess, i would say you are well over the MTOW after adding fuel and pax with the FSP loader.

See this FAQ

http://fspassengers.com/?action=faq&question=64

Moved to support

[relichd]

Try to take off and land the bird without using FSP first. If there's no change then I'd say you need to check your take off weight (I do not know
Westwind's A332 but from my experience with Wilco's A330 there's an option to have FMC calculated the V1, Vr and V2 speeds when you set the difficulty
to easy or medium).

I just tested it and for the TOW of 187254KGs my V1 is 148, Vr 150 and V2 157 with flaps set to 1. If you are departing with full fuel tanks I can
imagine your take off speed is much higher. You probably be exceeding the MTOW, too... The wind might play a role, as well. I remember I was able to take off from Gibraltar with my b737-800ng but had to try twice to depart from the shortest runway in Dublin, Ireland

As for the angle of rotation, I don't think this is limited by FSP as it would remove the "possibility" for a tail strike and the fun around it



Post Edited ( 11-04-08 23:31 )

[relichd]

Well, well, well... I can see Drew drew the first bit while I was writing mine



Post Edited ( 11-04-08 23:33 )

[Drew]

Sorry Relichd

Same conclusion though



Post Edited ( 11-04-08 23:32 )

[relichd]

You prepared an unexpected surprise for me

I was replying to a thread originally named "Question". When I submitted, this thread was moved and renamed. Luckily, I always do the "ctrl+a"
followed by "ctrl+c" just for the case something goes wrong

Take care,
David.

[cbohache]

Thanks for all the input. As for MTOW, I have kept it under the max in the payload model supplied with FSP and also under the weights
listed in the cfg, including ZFW(they all basically follow the specs from airbus' website). The problem is that on rotation the tail is
nowhere near the ground when the pax get scared and the copilot tells me we scrapped the tail. I watched from the spot view and the tail
was maybe just over halfway to the ground.

Thanks again for the help as I am completely perplexed

edit:FYI-the target attitude I have found is 12.5 degrees



Post Edited ( 11-05-08 03:14 )

[Jason]

this might be off the wall but it could be your scenery? are you taking off from various airports with the same results or are you always
trying from the same airport?

[relichd]

Sounds to me as what I've experienced some time ago. Well, not exactly what you are trying to solve. If you use yoke or joystick, check the settings -
sensitivity and null zones for yaw and pitch axes...
David

[cbohache]

I have thought about the scenery issue, but it seems to happen everywhere. I will check on the joystick settings. Thanks for so much
input in such a short time.