Collapsing gear

[salmendra]

LAST EDITED ON Jun-16-03 AT 05:42PM (EDT)[p]I saw that once before in the Forum but can´t find it now that I need it.

How do I edit the CFG so that I can avoid sthe gears on some planes collapsing when landing ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best

Sergio Almendra
Campinas - Brazil

[baddadnv]

Hi Sergio,

See if this will help you?

Randy Burton

http://www.flightsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3eee3a792af8454d.jpg

[salmendra]

Hi Randy

Thanks for your help. Gonna try right now.

Best

Sergio Almendra
Campinas - Brazil

[VFR_Steve]

But surely you want a realistic sim.. not an arcade style experience.

Thats not what FS2002 is about .. is it?!


Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.

[baddadnv]

>But surely you want a realistic
>sim.. .


You'll have to take that up with microsoft......Those are the Default 747-400 settings......



>not an arcade style
>experience>Thats not what FS2002 is about
>.. is it?!


You use the game how you want.....We'll use the game how we want.

Friendly,

Randy Burton

[salmendra]

Thanks fo your comments, but that´s not really the problem.

Actually I wasn´t clear in my first post. I am having problems with some airplanes (notably POSKY 767) where the gear collapses on ALL landings even if I touch with 500 FPM or less. So the question here is not really realism. In fact I just noted hat the settings for the POSKY 767 are 1100FPM for the front gear and 1500FPM for the main gera. I normally land much smoother than that. I´ve just tried it and I landed with some 600 FPM and again it collapdsed. One thing I noticed the gear to collapse (in the main set) is always the farther from the centerline (even if it is still in the rwy).

Any ideas ?

Sergio Almendra
Campinas - Brazil

[salmendra]

And BUMP !!

Sergio Almendra
Campinas - Brazil

[leonross]

Try unloading some of the fuel,to make the plane lighter.

Leon,

[salmendra]

Thanks for the tip Leon.

It may be that, because I was starting with 100% fuel and making short hops (250NM aprox.). I´ll try and poste the result here later on.

Best

Sergio Almendra
Campinas - Brazil

[baddadnv]

LAST EDITED ON Jun-16-03 AT 10:02PM (EDT)[p]Sergio,

Increase the main set to 2000fpm.........

500ftm is still an awful big thump and landing.......be sure to use full flaps, and flare the A/C just before touch down. Although if landed correctly it shouldn't matter, make sure your fuel level is no higher than say 20% remaining in the all tanks.

There haven't been alot of pilots complain of this problem, so I would tend to think that it is your landing technique, rather than a model error.

Try those, then let us know,

Randy Burton

EDIT>>>Leon, your post was not there when I started this one (smile).....Lets hope that help's Sergio.

[salmendra]

Randy and Leon

Thanks for the tips it really worked out. It was silly of me to forget that heavies aren´t supposed to land with 98% fuel. I changed th elimit to 2000FPM, set fuel to 15% and did my best to do a greaser and it worked just fine.

I think a 20% fuel limit is probably too low (I mean I guess the model was designed with a higher limit). I´ll exepriment with that later. In theory I guess that if I have MTOW and Maximum Landing Weight for the plane the difference is the fuel you burn so its easy to calculate your max fuel load at landing (of course I don´t know if the model will be at MTOW with max fuel because the palne may be modelled with less than full passenger / cargo capacity, but its still a guidance).

Thanks again and best regards

Sergio Almendra
Campinas - Brazil