CFG Files Obsolete Parameters

PID to adjust the differential braking controls on ground to stay on the centerline when taking off or taxiing using copilot and/or autopilot controls.

Input is the heading rotational speed error, output is the target delta between brakes.

Default is: 0.001, 0.001, 0.8, 1.0, 5.0

This is the distance (in meters) to turn off animation and model behavior systems, which lowers the processing overheads for the aircraft. The approximate values by category would be:

• AircraftPilot = 100 meters
• FlyingAnimals = 250 meters
• All others = 1000 meters

Default is 1000.

This is a legacy entry that was used to provide an alternative description for an aircraft.

This setting is used to control how the clip planes are computed. Clip planes are used to set the minimum and maximum distances for rendering in a 3D graphics program. The relative location of these planes determines how precise the graphics engine can maintain the Z-order of objects. A discussion of clip plane management is beyond the scope of this document, however the concept is relevant to the camera system because it determines whether the camera favors near or far objects in the view.

Default value is "Normal".

String:

1. "Normal" – The near clip plane is scaled along with the zoom level. Useful for most views.
2. "Minimum" – Clamps the near clip plane at its absolute minimum value (1 meter). Useful for cameras where the camera is placed close to object geometry (e.g., aircraft cameras).
3. "Spot" – Favors distant objects by scaling the near clip plane with altitude and distance. Useful when the camera is positioned a reasonable distance away from the target object (e.g., spot view).
4. "Tower" – Favors near objects by scaling the near clip plane by one-half the zoom level and clamping the far plane based on visibility settings with an absolute limit of 20km. Useful when objects at the limits of visibility aren't important.

0.0 - 100.0

Value to indicate if de-feathering oil accumulators are available (TRUE, 1) or not (FALSE, 0).

Default value is 0 (FALSE).

Defines the friction/torque applied to the engine - especially when shutting down - using a 1D Curve of up to 8 paired values. Values are ftlbs for torques, and RPM for engine rotation speeds.

Default values are:

engine_friction_table = -1000:0.3, 0:0.3, 1000:0.3, 2000:0.3, 3000:0.3, 4000:0.3, 6000:0.3

1D Curve of Floats

wing_pos_apex_lon

Longitudinal (z) distance of the wing apex - as measured at the centerline of the aircraft - from the Datum Reference Point point in ft. This distance is measured positive in the forward (aircraft nose) direction. Note that this value will have no effect if the compute_aero_center value is 0 - which is generally how it should be.

Currently not used in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Instead you should be using the aero_center_lift parameter.

The number of contact points for the aircraft. Note that if this parameter is omitted, then the maximum will be set to 25 and any defined points above this value will be ignored. It should also be noted that the simulation will expect the exact number of point.N definitions as the maximum given here. So, if you have this set to 10, you will need to have defined 10 points (0 - 9).

Default value is 25.

The longitudinal position, in feet, from the Datum Reference Point of the helicopter that represents the lateral aerodynamic center.

Default value is 0.

This defines whether the helicopter has a correlator that maps the throttle onto the collective (1, TRUE), or not (0, FALSE).

NOTE: This parameter will no longer work and should not be used. It has been deprecated in favour of collective_to_throttle_correlator parameters.

Default value is 1 (TRUE).

This parameter can be used to indicate the presence of TCAS and / or FLARM systems. If supplying this parameter you give two values separated with a comma (val1, val2) where the first corresponds to the TCAS and the second to the FLARM. For the TCAS you can give one of the following values:

1. 0 - No TCAS capability (no transponder)
2. 1 - Only transponder responses
3. 2 - Standard TCAS
4. 3 - External TCAS

This parameter can be used to indicate the presence of a FLARM system. It can have the following values:

1. 0 - No Flarm
2. 1 - Flarm installed

List of Integers

Setting this to 1 (TRUE) makes the autopilot autoland system available to the aircraft, otherwise set it to 0 (FALSE) to disable autoland.

The FLC proportional control mode value.

Default is 20.0.

The FLC derivative control mode value.

Default is 50.0.

The FLC derivative control boundary.

Default is 1000.0.

When set to 1 (TRUE), this will force the SimAttachment to run any JS used by the attachment when it is hidden in the simulation.

Default value is 0 (FALSE).