Parking Brakes

[Grunt]

How are parking brakes assigned to aircraft? Is it in the aircraft.cfg file? I have a FS2002 ATR-42 without parking brakes (ctrl+.). How can I fix this? Can I fix it by putting a PB gauge in the panel? Thanks in advance!

[wsieffert]

LAST EDITED ON Jan-29-02 AT 10:05AM (EDT)[p]Look in the aircraft.cfg file under contact points:

//0 Class <0=none,1=wheel, 2=scrape, 3=skid, 4=float, 5=rudder>
//1 Longitudinal Position (feet)
//2 Lateral Position (feet)
//3 Vertical Position (feet)
//4 Impact Damage Threshold (Feet Per Minute)
//5 Brake Map (0=None, 1=Left, 2=Right)
//6 Wheel Radius (feet)
//7 Steer Angle (degrees)
//8 Static Compression (feet) (0 if rigid)
//9 Max/Static Compression Ratio
//10 Damping Ratio (0=Undamped, 1=Critically Damped)
//11 Extension Time (seconds)
//12 Retraction Time (seconds)
//13 Sound Type
//14 Airspeed limit for retraction (KIAS)
//15 Airspeed that gear gets damage at (KIAS)

(contact_points)
point.0=1, 40.00, 0.00, -8.10, 1181.1, 0, 1.442, 55.92, 0.8, 2.5, 0.9, 4.0, 4.0, 0, 0.0, 0.0
point.1=1, -7.75, -8.58, -8.68, 1574.8, 1, 1.442, 0.00, 1.0, 2.5, 0.9, 6.9, 6.9, 2, 0.0, 0.0
point.2=1, -7.75, 8.58, -8.68, 1574.8, 2, 1.442, 0.00, 1.0, 2.5, 0.9, 7.1, 7.1, 3, 0.0, 0.0

point.3=2, -14.17, -47.33, 0.00, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 5, 0.0, 0.0
point.4=2, -14.17, 47.33, 0.00, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 6, 0.0, 0.0
point.5=2, -54.00, 0.00, 2.83, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 9, 0.0, 0.0
point.6=2, 42.67, 0.00, -3.75, 787.4, 0, 0.000, 0.00, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 4, 0.0, 0.0

max_number_of_points=21

static_pitch=0.62 //degrees, pitch when at rest on the ground (+=Up, -=Dn)
static_cg_height=7.66 //feet, altitude of CG when at rest on the ground

The first three points are usually the landing gear. The sixth number after the "=" tells which landing gear has brakes. The actual braking in in the *.air file, section 332-yes/no, section 1101 (Braking Strength)-value (ft/sec^2*2048).

[artburke]

With apologies to the guy who posted above me ---

Go into the CONTROLS - ASSIGNMENTS menu. ALL the aircraft should be able to set the parking brakes with CTRL + .

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but it should be a global assignment.
Art

[Grunt]

LAST EDITED ON Jan-29-02 AT 11:25PM (EDT)[p]Thanks to both of you! I only had 2/3 gears assigned with brakes. Also, I am using an analog CH Combat Stick w/ XP OS and it still has the memory that I left in it from my old 98SE comp. Anyhow, when I use the button on the joystick that is assigned to brakes, I can't use any other buttons, even on the keyboard, so part of my problem was that I was trying to put on by PB when I was using the brakes button and the comp. wasn't getting the commands!




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