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FORMAT OF THE *.FLT FILES
Jeff D provided this information (short=2 byte integer, long=4 byte, float=4 byte, all C style). These figures are still very provisional:

Byte # (h)
//Engine data //Example
00 short number_of_engines //i.e. 1st two bytes
02 short engine_type //00=PROP, 01=JET, 02=ROCKET
04 float engine_altitude // Engine best at this altitude (e.g. P38H=22k feet, P38J=25k feet)
08 float Lower Altitude Section of Engine Performance. It represents Engine Power (HP)
Loss Rate from Best Altitude down to Sea Level. The more you set a negative value, the more your engine will loss HP from Best Altitude to sea level. It seems progressive meter by meter flying down and down. It ranges from 0.00 (P38H, Hurri, Spit I and V1) to 0.02 (Bf109K) and 0.09 (Tempest). Also reduces time to lift-off
0c float Upper Altitude Section of Engine Performance. The more you set a negative value, the more your engine will lose HP from Best Altitude up to Ceiling. Ranges from 0.00(V1) to 0.0001 (Me262), –0.039 (Hurri) to
–0.041 (Spit I), –0.101(P38H), –0.106 (Bf109K) and –0.1121 (Tempest)
10 float number_of_blades? 3 blades=0.006, 4= 0.007, 5=0.009, Jets=0
14 float min_throttle Engine torque multiplier (64 for all except jets, which are 25.6)

//Flight control data
18 (3 floats: max, min, rate) Throttle (P38H= 256, 0, 128)
24 (3 floats: max, min, rate) elevator (P38H= 128, -108, 256)
30 (3 floats: max, min, rate) flaps (P38H= 3, 0, 0.7)
3c (3 floats: max, min, rate) ailerons (P38H= 128, -128, 426)
48 (3 floats: max, min, rate) rudder (P38H= 128, -128, 275)

54 float max_altitude (P38H= 40,000 feet) Above this power goes to zero
58 float max_velocity Approx 1.5 x real max speed, see full notes below
5c float max_AOA
60 float critical_mach
64 float max_g Usually 9
68 float min_g All=3.0, except Hurr and Spit 1=0; max neg. g. for engine
6c float unknown

70 float mass_empty Multiply by 32.2 factor for combat weight in lbs
74 float mass_fuel
78 float unknown
7c float unknown
80 float unknown
84 float torque1?
88 float torque2
8c float torque3

//Bunch of coefficients for the flight equations : see detailed analysis below
90 (5 floats) drag stability
a4 (8 floats) sideforce stability
c4 (6 floats) lift stability
dc (9 floats) roll stability derivatives
100 (6 floats) pitch stablility derivatives
118 (9 floats) yaw stability derivatives

//The following section TIMES FIVE--lookup table data
13c long size Always 0a00=10 (5 Data curves. Each block is 0a00 0000, then 13 floats)
float delta_x 10=number of data points, at end of block. First 3 values may be data spacing and range of values
float inv_delta_x
float zero_x
float Table[10]

//The following section TIMES SIX--weapon data : see below (p. 15) for more detail
254 (3 floats) position x,y,z Gun flash position x, y & z co-ords
float secondary_position_x
float secondary_position_y
float muzzle_velocity 80% of real values
float rate_of_fire 1 second burst of fire for this weapon
float dispersion Very Important: reduces or increases effect for guns
float eject_position_1 //
float eject_position_2 //
short yaw
short duration of tracer or range

//Landing gear data
35c float height
360 float pitch (P38=0.063, B17=0.118, 110G=0.18, P51=0.19, 109E=0.24)
364 (3 floats: max, min, rate) gear_control

//This part times THREE (one for each gear)
float n
(3 floats) position x, y, z

//This part times SEVEN
(3 floats) damage position x, y, z

//This part times TWO
(3 floats) wing position x, y, z

40c //This part times FOUR
(3 floats) engine position x, y, z 4 Smoke positions
(at bytes 40c, 418, 424 and 430 – the 1st two are the jet exhaust points)

43c //Hit boxes/spheres
//This part times EIGHT Coordinates (x, y, z) and radius of hit boxes
(3 floats) hit locations x, y, z , plus float Radius

The known offsets here are:
1) 43c Single engined planes: engine (including oil & fuel lines). Multi engined planes: no effect

2) 44c Pilot

3) 45c Collision area: gun fire doesn't damage it. When disabled one can ram other planes without any damage. When enabled: collision can cause any damage independently of other hit boxes (e.g. even with pilot hit box disabled ramming a plane can kill the pilot)

4) 46c Tail section (incl. rudder and elevators)

5) 47c Right wing incl. hydraulics (four engined planes: inner right engine and wing)

6) 48c Right wing incl. aileron (four engined planes: outer right engine and wing)

7) 49c Left wing incl. hydraulics (four engined planes: inner left engine and wing)

8) 4ac Left wing incl. aileron (four engined planes: outer left engine and wing)

4bc long unknown
long radius_z
float engine_hit_points

These are quite similar to the damage table in PLANES.DAT. N.B. Byte 4a0 is the Microprose right wing error (inability to damage the left wing - the Y-coordinate is wrongly made the same as the right wing)

//This part times FIVE
4c8 (3 floats) position_of_weapons launch x, y and z coordinates of Weapons launch stations


SOME PARTICULAR FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS
Use Jeroen's EAW AircraftEdit to change the FLT files, if not hex-editing manually.
Paulo has noted the following:
Byte 98 Drag Flaps. Change from approx –0.1 to –1 to simulate dive brakes when flaps fully extended
Byte 9c Drag Positive drag. Nearly linear to rated power. Increasing this increases acceleration.
Byte c8 Lift Wing area? Increasing the absolute value (e.g. -600 to -700) increases lift.
Bytes f0&f4 Roll related to engines (1, 2 or 4 engines)
Bytes 12c&130 Yaw related to engines (2 or 4 engines the same)

BEST ALTITUDE / LOWER ALTITUDE / UPPER ALTITUDE
One of the most important sets of numbers in the *.FLT files is the Best Altitude / Lower Altitude Section / Upper Altitude Section numbers at bytes 04, 08 and 0c. Daniele Pasqualini discovered this. Byte 04 is “Engine best at this altitude” (e.g. P38H=22k feet, P38J=25k feet). Byte is the Lower Altitude Section of Engine Performance. It represents Engine Power (HP) Loss Rate from Best Altitude down to Sea Level. The more you set a negative value, the more your engine will loss HP from Best Altitude to sea level. It seems progressive metre by metre flying down and down. Byte 0c is the Upper Altitude Section of Engine Performance. The more you set a negative value, the more your engine will lose HP from Best Altitude up to Ceiling. Positive values can be set, with sometimes unpredictable results. A full analysis is as follows:

*.FLT Byte # P38H P38J P47C P47D P51B P51D B17F B24D B26B HURR
04 BestAlt 22,000 25,000 34,000 34,000 22,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 15,000 6,000
08 Lower 0 0 0 -0.015 -0.018 -0.148 0 0 0 0
0c Upper -0.162 -0.105 -0.133 -0.116 -0.060 -0.029 0 0 -0.051 -0.039
54 Ceiling 40,000 44,000 44,000 44,000 42,000 42,000 38,500 32,000 23,500 33,200
9c Power 3592.1 3592.1 5073.1 5363.0 3529.1 3599 2268.7 2268 3781 1947


*.FLT Byte # SPIT1 SPIT9 SPIT14 TYPH TEMP MOSQ 109E 109G 109K 110C
04 BestAlt 6,000 21,000 16,000 13,750 17,000 13,000 14,000 16,000 16,400 14,000
08 Lower 0 -0.014 0 -0.075 -0.092 0 -0.023 -0.014 -0.022 -0.023
0c Upper -0.041 -0.113 -0.102 -0.12 -0.0112 -0.089 -0.047 -0.070 -0.068 -0.085
54 Ceiling 34,000 38,000 42,000 31,800 36,000 34,000 36,000 35,000 36,000 32,000
9c Power 1947 3319 4521.7 4100.2 4373.6 2990.3 2048 2775 3686 2048


*.FLT Byte # 110G 410 190A 190D 262 J88A J88C JU87 H111 V1V1
04 BestAlt 16,000 16,000 15,000 20,000 30,000 5,000 14,400 5,000 5,000 3,000
08 Lower -0.015 -0.040 -0.045 -0.020 0 -0.034 -0.018 -0.037 0 0
0c Upper -0.121 -0.066 -0.052 -0.107 -0.0001 0 0 -0.040 -0.042 0
54 Ceiling 36,300 32,800 36,000 37,000 37,600 26,200 32,400 26,200 26,300 7,000
9c Power 2988.7 2867.4 3403.1 4033.3 9.453 2079 2249.8 2252.9 2252.9 3.15


Note (for example) that the Me262 is virtually the same at all altitudes. The B17, B24 and V1 are exactly the same at all altitudes. The Spit I and Hurri have good low altitude performance, but (with a gravity feed carburettor) are poor at altitude. The Bf109E should (perhaps) be better at altitude – more like –0.03 than –0.047. And query why the Bf110C has engines that fade more at altitude than the Bf109E – they both had the same Daimler-Benz engine.

I know it has this heavily done, effects and eye candy enhanced ETO. But you already knew the answer, which makes me wonder what your intentions are to ask.

Its really fine with the the ETO Theater considering the amount of work it took, besides it takes the stock game higher. I have not tried any other theaters that I downloaded, nor managers. However, I never didn't get into other theaters back in the late 99-2001. Mostly just boosting the ETO one was enough.

I have tried other theaters briefly in the EAW source modification that you amended to using community archives. But I forgot which ones they where. I'd have to go back and try to run the DSP font-end again to see.