Hi, lately I have noticed alot of talk of poeple wanting to make there own planes and figured I could help out.

The cads or aircraft outlines are only needed if you want to create an exact outline of an existing aircraft and are not needed at all for AFP.


First off rodeo has done a great workshop explaining the workings of the plane and how all the files are created and structured for AFP and what is required. they can be loaded into MetasequoiaLE and traced.

Here is a link to his .pdf instructions, there were also html form but I cant seem to find the link.
http://www.rodeo.rc-sim.de/New_aircr...erofly_pro.htm


MetasequoiaLE R2.1a is the most common and easyiest freeware 3D modeling program used for AFP and works great. Itis available here
(select the bottom of the 3 download links)
http://www21.ocn.ne.jp/~mizno/main_e.html

Here is a good workshop explaing the workings of MetasequoiaLE, the page deals with FMS sim but the creation is much the same to AFP except AFP can handle alot more detail, points and faces.
http://rcp.web.infoseek.co.jp/Rc_hp2...asequoia_e.htm

Once you create the model you will need a converter to change from .suf to .onj for the sim. This is availaible by emailing IPACS at and asking for it.
[email protected]

Here is a link to a .pdf by rodeo explaing how to use the converter.
http://www.rodeo.rc-sim.de/Ipacs_converter_e.htm

The most important part of making a plane for AFP is to be patient, new aircraft will always have glitches and many troubles will rise during the construction but start simple and you should be able to work out the bugs and get the hang of the kind of problems you will encounter.

If you have any questions or problems about making new planes feel free to contact me.

Geoff H.