FSX North American T-2C Buckeye Upgrade

North American T-2C Buckeye Upgrade. Kazunori Ito's T2C Buckeye, converted for use in FSX. Includes sound package and 2D panel based on original by J. Graham Fuller. Photo of real panel included. No 3D panel. Extensive revisions made to aircraft.cfg and .air file. This is the whole aircraft. By Bill Lowe. (See also T2CFSX-FIX.ZIP).

This T-2C Buckeye was originally designed by Kazunori Ito for FS2002/FS2004. It has been extensively modified to work in FSX, complete with a redesigned panel layout. See separate 'New ReadMe" file in the panel file.

With the invaluable aid of the tutorial written by Bob Chicilo, I have made a ton of changes. In the Aircraft.cfg file these include:

-Correcting the empty and maximum weights
-repositioning the CG
-changing fuel quantities to more accurately reflect the real Buckeye's fuel load
-added "Flight_Tuning" to the Aircraft.cfg file
-adjusted the wheel positions and heights
-stopped the aircraft from burying its nose in the tarmac on acceleration
-adjusted both static height and pitch
-properly positioned tail hook and adjusted the length
-moved engine thrust to proper location
-adjusted turbine engine inlet and thrust to achieve proper maximum speed
-set reference speeds to specs
-added an autopilot (don't know if the real Buckeye had one!)
-set eyepoint to proper location
-added a startup effect
-changed the nav lights and beacons to scale them more to this aircraft

Changes to the Air file include:
-elimination of files not needed for FSX
-took out files in the 600 range and replaced with file 1501
-set thrust and intake area to match Aircraft.cfg file
-lowered setting of file 1503 so aircraft won't creep forward with brakes off

Sounds like a lot but as an old retired guy, what else have I got to occupy my time???

The only other thing I would have liked to correct is that both the spoiler and tailhook functions have been linked to the forward slash (/) key. Apparently, this is incorporated in the model file and I don't know how to fix it. If you do, feel free and please share that correction with the rest of us!

-------------TO INSTALL:-------------

-Place the "T-2C Buckeye" file in your FSX file under Sim Objects/Airplanes
-Place the contents of the "Effects" file in your FSX file under "Effects". Whether to overwrite what you already have is your choice.
-Place the contents of the "Gauges" file in your FSX file under "Gauges" Again, it is up to you whether you overwrite gauges already there.

My thanks to Kazunori Ito for his original design of this aircraft, to J. Graham Fuller for the original panel background, and to all those who designed and provided the gauges and effects that made this project possible.

Bill Lowe