Flight Mechanics

[zadkey]

TLDR: Asking for help getting my toy jet flying. Blueprint attached at end.

Hi there, I would not really consider myself new per say, but have been playing on and off for a few years.

I recently designed a small jet I was very happy with and it worked well. I wanted to make a larger version of it and ran into some problems. Basically it would always loose altitude while doing a roll turn. I have also tried messing with the roll to turn angle deviation and the roll angle itself.  And if I turned rolling off, it would go into space. Not really sure what I am missing here. I would love for some Aerial AI experts to take a look (at the blueprint)  and tell me what I can tweak to get this thing flying.


You can test the blueprint by pasting it into your C:\Users\{USERNAME}\Documents\From The Depths\Player Profiles\{PROFILENAME}\Constructables  directory.

Here are some screenshots of it:

[Skyer]

On the Aerial AI card option you have "The most extreme bank angle" or something like that.
that is how many degrees the plane will roll when performing a roll turn.
if you are losing altitude then you should put it to like 80° if then you gain altitude set it to 85° and so on

[zadkey]

On the Aerial AI card option you have "The most extreme bank angle" or something like that.
that is how many degrees the plane will roll when performing a roll turn.
if you are losing altitude then you should put it to like 80° if then you gain altitude set it to 85° and so on

I appreciate the thought Skyer.

I did try several settings on that particular slider. I wasn't able to get it to work.

[Skyer]

Then could you send a Blueprint and a picture?

[Mr.YaR]

Had to redo the tail of a factory built chinese RC plane (1kg) because of this irl.

The vertical stabilisator was too small and badly positionned/balanced.
And it was fixed x)

If i remeber well, adding more thrust could help in FtD

(Too lazy to get the right english vocabulary, hope it's understandable)

[zadkey]

Had to redo the tail of a factory built chinese RC plane (1kg) because of this irl.

The vertical stabilisator was too small and badly positionned/balanced.
And it was fixed x)

If i remeber well, adding more thrust could help in FtD

(Too lazy to get the right english vocabulary, hope it's understandable)

I was thinking it was a thrust thing too. I wonder if the AI expects the thrust to be a certain amount relative to it's size.

[zadkey]

Then could you send a Blueprint and a picture?

I went ahead and uploaded some screenshots of the vehicle.

I didn't know if you wanted screenshots of it loosing altitude or not. So I took one of that too.

[zadkey]

Had to redo the tail of a factory built chinese RC plane (1kg) because of this irl.

The vertical stabilisator was too small and badly positionned/balanced.
And it was fixed x)

If i remeber well, adding more thrust could help in FtD

(Too lazy to get the right english vocabulary, hope it's understandable)

It does seem to do a little bit better at gaining altitude when it goes faster. When I upped the speed from 54 m/s to 86 m/s,  it was suddenly able to climb to an elevation of 140 instead of 70 or so. So it did double it's climb before it ultimately fell. I wonder if It needs to hit the elevation setting of 230 or so before it stops falling.

[zadkey]

Okay, I was able to get it to fly properly. Thanks everyone for all your help.

These were the solutions:
Increase speed to 87 m/s
Decrease roll to turn to 30 degrees
Decrease most extreme roll angle to 90 degrees
Add Arial Pitch PID.

[Mr.YaR]

Good news x) 90 roll angle is good. (No idea what your craft is supposed to do, but from my experience it's a good angle hehe)