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60 CHAPTER 5. FLIGHT IN X-PLANE 5.11.2 Using the Built-In Replay You can replay your flight, from the last time you loaded an aircraft or a location up to your current location, by toggling the replay mode on. This can be done either by pressing Ctrl + ‘r’ or by opening the Aircraft menu and clicking Toggle Replay Mode. In the top of the window, you will see shuttle controls to (listed left to right): • stop playback, • play backward faster than real-time, • play backward at real-time speed, • play backward slower than real-time, • pause playback, • play forward slower than real-time, • play forward at real-time speed, • play forward faster than real-time, and • stop playback. Additionally, you can click the shuttle slider and drag it to quickly jump around in the playback. To return to the flight, either press Alt + ‘,’ or open the Aircraft menu and click Toggle Replay Mode once again. 5.11.3 Replaying a Flight from a Flight Data Recorder (FDR) The final method of visualizing a flight is to load a information from a flight data recorder (FDR). This is useful primarily in accident investigation and re-creation. In that case, you would need to take the data from the “black box” of the aircraft you’re interested in and put it in a format that X-Plane can read. That format is the Flight Data Recorder (or .fdr) format. This is plain text file formatted in a particular way, which means that you can make your own FDR files relatively easily from the data you have and then re-create the flight in X-Plane. The FDR file specification can be found in X-Plane by moving the mouse to the top of the screen, click on the File menu, and clicking Load Flight Data Recorder File. The lower half of this dialog box lists both the preceding data values (file version, aircraft, tail number, and so on) that are required, as well as each of the 100 or so data values that each instant in the flight data can have. These include the time stamp of that instant, the aircraft’s location (in latitude, longitude, and altitude), the indicated airspeed, and more. You can use the scroll bar above the file specification box to look through all the data values, and you can mouse over individual values to get a description of them. Note that even if your instantaneous “snapshots” of the aircraft do not use a given parameter (such as the engine pressure ratio, perhaps), your data file must use a dummy value as a placeholder. After formatting your data for X-Plane as an FDR file, you can load it using the Load Flight Data Recorder File dialog box. Click the silver square labeled “Flight Data Recorder file,” navigate to your file, and double click on. Then, when you close the dialog box, you will be greeted with the standard replay shuttle buttons with which you can replay the flight. 5.12 Viewing the Behind-the-Scenes Flight Model X-Plane models flight by breaking an aircraft down into a number of little pieces and finding the forces acting on each piece. By clicking the Show Flight Model option from the Special menu (or
5.12. VIEWING THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES FLIGHT MODEL 61 Figure 5.6: Illustrating the forces acting on a Baron 58 [Full size →] by pressing Ctrl + M on the keyboard) and moving to an outside view (e.g., by pressing Shift + 8 on the keyboard for the chase view), you can actually see all the forces calculated on each piece of the craft. With some wind and turbulence turned on in the Weather screen, you can even see the pseudo-random velocity vector flow field around the airplane. The velocity vectors seen are the actual vectors interacting with the aircraft, and the force vectors (the green lines coming off the plane) are the actual forces acting on the plane—nothing is just for show here. This is the actual work that X-Plane is doing. The green bars extending from the control surfaces of the aircraft indicate how much lift each section of the surface is generating; longer bars represent greater force. The red bars, likewise, represent drag, and the yellow bars represent lift from vertical control surfaces.
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