Wilco A320 Autoland

[Daniel Novotny]

Good eve!

As some of you might know I´ve been spending lots of hours struggling with the Wilcobus´s aircraft.cfg. btw: that battle ain´t over til it´s over :lol:

I got tired of flying hundreds of miles and finally getting into bad weather to crash two miles in front of the threshold. I even had to avoid airports with CAT3-Conditions. :devil:
So I tried to find some appropriate values for the autopilot section. Finally I got the A320 to do a rather nice autoland in EDHL today.

Astonished as I am I´ll share it with you.

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Sorry for the poor quality!

I´m waiting for fog to come! :lol:

 

[Peter Schindler]

Sorry for the poor quality!

come on, Daniel, I've seen MUCH worse Nice video, thanks for sharing!
And, definitely, that's a smoooth autoland! Would be interested in seeing your cfg changes. I would never let my Wilco Bus do anything on its own :lol:

 

[Tobias Niederhauser]

Same here, give me those CFG entries :devil:

cheers,
tobi

 

[Daniel Novotny]

Hi there!

I did some minor modifications not only to aircraft.cfg, but also to airfile (especially drag).

I collected lots of tips from many different boards, tried things out, modified them and finally what I got is a reasonable behaviour on descent (drag), appraoch and autoland.

Here are the changes I did to aircraft.cfg:

Here´s the flight tuning section:

cruise_lift_scalar =1.200
parasite_drag_scalar =1.100
induced_drag_scalar =1.1
elevator_effectiveness =2.00
aileron_effectiveness =1.0
rudder_effectiveness =1.0
pitch_stability =2.000
roll_stability =1.000
yaw_stability =1.000
elevator_trim_effectiveness =2.000
aileron_trim_effectiveness =1.000
rudder_trim_effectiveness =1.000

The modifications in the autopilot section seem to be most important:

nav_proportional_control=12
nav_integrator_control=0.10
nav_derivative_control=0.90
nav_integrator_boundary=1.50
nav_derivative_boundary=2.50
gs_proportional_control=25.0
gs_integrator_control=0.530
gs_derivative_control=0.00
gs_integrator_boundary=0.70
gs_derivative_boundary=0.00

I tried not to violate any copyright, so I posted what was changed only.

I did some other modifications as well which I don´t exactly recall (at the moment I can´t have a look at the aircraft.cfg) but those seem to be most important.

best regards