Pushback problem with c172 float plane

[kbr]

Recently I bought Carenado's Cessna 172 float plane and while it's a very nice looking model, for some reason the plane will not pushback. This is a real problem when I need to pull the plane out of a dock. I was wondering if any of you guys that have more experience with airplane config files might have any ideas I could try to fix this?

I also have a feeling the plane is not positioned on the water properly, because if I try to use slew mode, the plane takes off flying when I turn slew off.

I've messed around some with the static cg height and contact points of the plane, but have had no success yet.

Any ideas would be very appreciated.

[kbr]

Never mind. I figured out a fix on my own.

I was also having a problem with active camera not working right with this plane, but I managed to find a workaround with that problem too.

The only problem I haven't been able to fix is the slew problem, but with pushback now working, I don't really need to use slew mode.

So I'm off to enjoy some flying with this plane.

[fstheo]

Some 'landplanes' do have the same problem. Slewing them to another position and then pressing the <Y> makes them fly away at high speed.
As far as I know you can avoid that, by pressing <F1> first. For some reason, only then the plane 'knows' he's really on the ground/water.

Theo

[kbr]

Thanks for the tip. I wasn't aware of that trick. I'll give it a try.