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FSXA Adding lines to tables in AAM?

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Morning all.

I'd like to add lines in .air file tables using AAM or AirEd; how do you do this? Specifically I'm looking to add lines to table 404 to add granularity.

Thanks in advance.
 
The only way I know is to use AirUpdate.exe. This dumps a text file of the .air file. The text file can be edited and the AirDate.exe can then update the .air file from the text file.

AAM v2.2 doesn't allow this - yet?

Please not that when importing data to the tables the number of rows and columns can not yet be changed. This will be part of a future release.
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Many thanks, mgh. I tried the export function on the table 404 page in AAM which does export a text file, but then it gives an error message when you try to import an updated file.

I'll try AirUpdate.exe and see what comes out.

Cheers.
 
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Adding anything further to 404 will do nothing as FS only uses two values from the entire table and the slope is calculated based on them.
 
WarpD said:
Adding anything further to 404 will do nothing as FS only uses two values from the entire table and the slope is calculated based on them.
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Is Yves Guillaume (and others) wrong when they state?

This is the basic (clean) lift component for wing-body-tail as a function of the CL vs. AoA curve in R404/1545.

 Note that only one single stall AoA can be defined for an airplane which is done in this table. It is valid for all flaps settings and Mach numbers. Real world stall speeds will therefore not match in most cases, since the real stall AoA varies significantly with flaps/slats and Mach number.
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Also, if so, what's the mechanism for stalling?
 
Single datapoint... but then you already know that. You're just looking to argue.

CDi is controlled by exactly two data points and no more. Since CDi is a direct correlation to lift (as in caused by lift)... changes to lift to make it more 'detailed' in the 404 table is unlikely to have the correct effects because the value of CDi wouldn't follow the changes but rather stick to the rigid 0 to 10* single-slope calculation the sim uses.

But then... you already know that... like I said, you're just looking to argue.
 
I do know that CDi is linearised with CL and so it's only approximation to total CD.

That still doesn't why CL doesn't vary with alpha. Also which data point?
 
Table 404 is interpolated to multiple decimals to output CL vs 360 degrees of AOA

CDi is linearized tp two points.
 
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