Push-Back Development Teaser
Happy 4th July to all who celebrate today and of course happy first anniversary Aerofly FS 4! Thank you everyone for your continued support and your positive reviews, that really helps us out a lot! As a small teaser let us show you what we have been working on behind the scenes.
Our push-back is of course physically simulated and not an animation. This means that the wheels always point the direction they should point to and the pushing force acts through the wheels of the tractor, is transferred through the tow bar and acts onto the nose gear of the aircraft. The angle of the nose wheel then determines how the aircraft steers, as long as there is traction. The actual nose wheel steering of the aircraft is bypassed and instead the push-back tractor drives into a position where the tow bar rotates the nose wheel to the target angle. When the nose gear temporarily lifts up or looses grip then of course the wheel is skidding sideways quite quickly. Naturally the truck can push a smaller aircraft much easier than a heavy one. At some point, if the engines produce significant thrust or when the slope is too steep, then the tractor wheels start spinning, too.
At the moment the push-back is controlled manually and the first release may also be manually controlled by the user but that is not yet final. To simplify the steering we currently control the target nose wheel angle just like you would control it with the tiller for normal taxi. With this it is already great fun to drive the tug around corners and onto the taxiway. And yes, the push-back will be work with all airliners, not just the 737 shown here.
The 3D model of the tractor is quite detailed and also has a driver cabin which we may show in future teasers, so stay tuned! Keep in mind that these are in-development screenshots taken in a Aerofly FS 4 developer build and may not represent the final product.
[ 2023-07-04 14:45:51 CET ] [ Original post ]
Thank you!
Happy 4th July to all who celebrate today and of course happy first anniversary Aerofly FS 4! Thank you everyone for your continued support and your positive reviews, that really helps us out a lot! As a small teaser let us show you what we have been working on behind the scenes.
Simulation
Our push-back is of course physically simulated and not an animation. This means that the wheels always point the direction they should point to and the pushing force acts through the wheels of the tractor, is transferred through the tow bar and acts onto the nose gear of the aircraft. The angle of the nose wheel then determines how the aircraft steers, as long as there is traction. The actual nose wheel steering of the aircraft is bypassed and instead the push-back tractor drives into a position where the tow bar rotates the nose wheel to the target angle. When the nose gear temporarily lifts up or looses grip then of course the wheel is skidding sideways quite quickly. Naturally the truck can push a smaller aircraft much easier than a heavy one. At some point, if the engines produce significant thrust or when the slope is too steep, then the tractor wheels start spinning, too.
Control
At the moment the push-back is controlled manually and the first release may also be manually controlled by the user but that is not yet final. To simplify the steering we currently control the target nose wheel angle just like you would control it with the tiller for normal taxi. With this it is already great fun to drive the tug around corners and onto the taxiway. And yes, the push-back will be work with all airliners, not just the 737 shown here.
Screenshots
The 3D model of the tractor is quite detailed and also has a driver cabin which we may show in future teasers, so stay tuned! Keep in mind that these are in-development screenshots taken in a Aerofly FS 4 developer build and may not represent the final product.
Aerofly FS 4 Flight Simulator
IPACS
IPACS
Jun 2022
Indie Simulation Racing Singleplayer
Game News Posts 67
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support
Very Positive
(643 reviews)
https://www.aerofly.com/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1995890
[23.25 M]
Aerofly FS 4 is a highly realistic Flight Simulator for beginner, intermediate and professional flight sim pilots. Explore the world of flying with a large fleet of highly detailed aircraft with fully animated and interactive 3D cockpits and custom coded systems. Fly with complex airliners, helicopters, business jets, fighter jets and warbirds, general aviation aircraft, aerobatic stuntplanes and gliders across the photorealistic landscape.
Aerofly FS 4 is a true next generation flight simulator with an easy to use and intuitive user interface as well as custom graphics and physics engines using state of the art technology such as 64bit support, multi-core processing, native Vulkan and Virtual Reality (VR) support, a real time full multibody simulation and complex aerodynamics simulation. World wide coverage of elevation data and base aerial images are included with Aerofly FS 4.
Step into the flight deck of your favorite airliner or enjoy a relaxing cross country flight in a warbird. Discover new places by flying one of the many custom missions or become a virtual airline pilot and choose from tens of thousands of real world airline flights. Track your career progress with the new flight-log feature or try to obtain all achievements in all aircraft categories.
To reduce the download size of the base package of Aerofly FS 4 Flight Simulator not all areas of the world share the same ground aerial image resolution. Additional free downloadable content packages (DLCs) are available in the Store to download higher resolution images and more custom modeled airports.
The Aircraft Add-On DLC includes new aircraft such as the A380, 787 Dreamliner, 747 and CRJ-900 airliners.
Aerofly FS 4 is a true next generation flight simulator with an easy to use and intuitive user interface as well as custom graphics and physics engines using state of the art technology such as 64bit support, multi-core processing, native Vulkan and Virtual Reality (VR) support, a real time full multibody simulation and complex aerodynamics simulation. World wide coverage of elevation data and base aerial images are included with Aerofly FS 4.
Step into the flight deck of your favorite airliner or enjoy a relaxing cross country flight in a warbird. Discover new places by flying one of the many custom missions or become a virtual airline pilot and choose from tens of thousands of real world airline flights. Track your career progress with the new flight-log feature or try to obtain all achievements in all aircraft categories.
Aerofly FS 4 Features
- Realistic flight and ground physics
- Intuitive user interface with location map and graphical route editor
- Start the flight instantly in a cruise, takeoff or landing configuration;
or on the ground ready for taxi or cold and dark - Highly detailed and interactive 3D cockpits
- Time-Skip feature to jump ahead in the flight
- Instant replay
- Optional simulated copilot that can fly the aircraft autonomously
- Optional flight assistance features like automatic nav-tuning, automatic lights, caution/warning muting and other quality of life features
- Flight logs, statistics and achievements
- Flight mission presets and custom missions
- Global Air Traffic based on 10,000+ real world flights
- 1200+ custom modeled airports
- High resolution aerial images
- Scenery cultivation: 3D buildings, powerlines, wind-turbines, trees, etc.
- Custom modeled famous landmarks and bridges
- World wide elevation, aerial images and navigation data coverage
- Sloped and curved runways
- Adjustable time of day, visibility, wind, clouds, thermal activity and turbulence
- Real time ground illuminating from aircraft lights and apron flood lights
- Most common joysticks assigned out of the box and ready for your first flight
- Support for multiple joysticks, throttle units, rudder pedals and more
- Full Oculus Rift VR support and full Oculus Touch controller support
- HTC Vive VR support and full Vive Controller support
- TrackIR support
- Support for Saitek Multi Panel, Radio Panel, Switch Panel and Saitek TPM
Aircraft Features
- Fully interactive 3D cockpits, fully VR hands compatible!
- Highly realistic physics simulation with full multibody simulation
- State of the art real-time flight physics with dynamic computations for airfoil lift, drag and moment based on flap, slat and spoiler positions, propeller wash, ground effect and wing downwash
- Natively simulated wing bending - no animation
- Realistic ground physics with full landing gear compression
- Custom engine simulation based on thermodynamic cycle
- Cold and Dark startups
- Adjustable cockpit lighting and display brightness
- Authentic EFIS displays including electronic checklists in the most modern airliners
- Very high level of system depth and thousands of custom coded aircraft systems
- Caution and warning systems
- Realistic GPWS callouts
- Realistic Autopilot that operate just like the real thing, with full LNAV/VNAV or
managed/selected features, auto-land and mode reversions - Custom fly-by-wire systems with realistic handling qualities and protections
- FMS programming using MCDU and CDU devices, including IFR procedures like
departures, arrivals and approaches (SIDs, STARs, APPRs)
Aircraft List
- A320-200
- B737-500
- B777-300ER
- King Air C90Gtx
- Learjet 45
- Bombardier Dash8-Q400
- Eurocopter EC135 helicopter
- Robinson R22 helicopter
- Cessna 172
- Baron 58
- F-15E
- MB339
- Bücker Jungmeister
- P38 Lightning
- F4U Corsair
- Fokker Dr 1
- Sopwith Camel
- Pitts S-2B
- ASG-29 glider
- Swift S1 glider
Additional Content
To reduce the download size of the base package of Aerofly FS 4 Flight Simulator not all areas of the world share the same ground aerial image resolution. Additional free downloadable content packages (DLCs) are available in the Store to download higher resolution images and more custom modeled airports.
The Aircraft Add-On DLC includes new aircraft such as the A380, 787 Dreamliner, 747 and CRJ-900 airliners.
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: 64bit Linux or Steam OS
- Processor: Intel or AMD Quad Core CPUMemory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 4.0 or Vulkan compatible 3D graphics card with at least 4 GB of RAM
- Storage: 100 GB available space
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 4.5 or Vulkan compatible 3D graphic card with 8 GB of RAM
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