FS2004

FS2004 Lockheed "Team 1049" Super Fuel Dump Fix

Corrects the fuel-dump contrail origin on Team 1049 Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation and Warning Star variants for FS2004 by repositioning the smoke effect to the proper wing location and slightly aft, matching real-world vaporization behavior. The tweak applies across shared-wing L1049, WV-2/WV-3, and C-121 family models.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004

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A four-engine military aircraft with a distinctive radar dome flies above scattered clouds, leaving contrails behind its tail section.

This simple change to the config file fixes the location of the fuel dump contrail on the Team 1049 Super Constellations and Warning Stars. Since all L1049's, WV-2 and 3's and all the C-121 variants had the same wing, this will work for them all. Fix by David Irons. Original aircraft by Team 1049 - Roland Berger, Volker Boehme, Manfred Jahn, Luis Pallas, Bill Tyne, and Stefan Werner.

Lockheed "Team 1049" Super dumping fuel.

As it stands now, the fuel contrail efect is too far outboard and too high (oddly, in the position of a 1649's!). A small detail overlooked by the team on an otherwise outstanding model!

This simple fix starts the fuel dump effect at the correct location, and slightly behind the wing, the correct distance aft for fuel vaporisation to occur. Thumbnail shows the new fuel dump on my SEA "Night Owl" repaint.

Copy and paste the following section into the config. file, after cutting the improper location lines in the [smokesystem] subsection. Save the file, and that's it!

Happy fuel dumping!

[smokesystem] smoke.0 = 10.00, -25.10, 38.10, fx_1049_fueldump smoke.1 = 10.00, -25.10, -38.10, fx_1049_fueldump

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Filename/Directory	File Date	File Size
file_id.diz	10.15.09	519 B
thumbnail.JPG	10.09.09	35.80 kB
readme.txt	10.16.09	1.13 kB
Night Owl EC-121J.JPG	10.09.09	35.80 kB
flyawaysimulation.txt	10.29.13	959 B
Go to Fly Away Simulation.url	01.22.16	52 B