How do i position the glider on the airport for start of tow

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How do i position the glider on the airport for start of tow

Post by scientifantastic » Sat Jan 19, 2019 4:59 am

When starting by aerotow the glider is position about 1/3 down the runway. I want it to start at the end of the runway. How do i change this start position of the glider?

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Re: How do i position the glider on the airport for start of tow

Post by dgtfer » Sat Jan 19, 2019 7:47 am

If you are creating a new scenery you can change the runway length with landscape editor, but if it's an existing one, your scenery will no longer be compatible for multi-player flights.
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Re: How do i position the glider on the airport for start of tow

Post by scientifantastic » Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:10 am

dgtfer wrote:
Sat Jan 19, 2019 7:47 am
If you are creating a new scenery you can change the runway length with landscape editor, but if it's an existing one, your scenery will no longer be compatible for multi-player flights.
It is a new scenery. I have the runway positioned correctly in landscape editor so it matches with the aerial imagery and also have the runway lengths as they should be. Looks like everything is the right length and in the right positions, but the aerotow starts about 1/3 into the runway

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Re: How do i position the glider on the airport for start of tow

Post by dgtfer » Sat Jan 19, 2019 11:13 am

The runway in LE may be longer than the "real" one, for example if the real is 400m long you can give a length of 600m in LE, your glider will start 100m backward.
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Re: How do i position the glider on the airport for start of tow

Post by scientifantastic » Sat Jan 19, 2019 5:24 pm

dgtfer wrote:
Sat Jan 19, 2019 11:13 am
The runway in LE may be longer than the "real" one, for example if the real is 400m long you can give a length of 600m in LE, your glider will start 100m backward.
Excellent, thank you! That fixed it. My real runway is 800m so in LE i set it to 1200 and it put me right on the runway numbers at the end.

Thanks again!

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