BMS Rack.dat
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While messing around with the new bms rack dat, I noted that the smsmodes seems not to work yet. Racks with smsmodes NONE still appear on the SMS/SJ MFD page. Hoped that with that feature the hardpoint numbering issue could be overcome for A/C with more pylons than the F-16. Is that the purpose or is it simply meant to blank pylons/stores that aren’t jettisonable?
Are the drag and weight data already implemented from a code perspective? The initial description in the file implies “to be done”. Irrespective of wether its already coded or not, is it planned to replace the rack DB entries with it, or will they still be required?
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Drag and Weight of pylons and racks are fully implemented…but not from BMSRack.dat Values come from DB
When I say fully, each and every object has its own weight, one subsonic drag and one supersonic drag.
There are more sophisticated model, including combined drag (have twice the same object does not provide twice the drag of each), cruise vs high-speed drag (each object having drag index varying with incidence…), but I do not believe any public simulator having included them as of now.
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Is the drag of a store on a specific pylon part planned to be implemented? I.e. fitting an AMRAAM to station 1 adds a DI of 3 and fitting it to station 4 adds a DI of 4.