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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Aug 20, 2008 14:28:25 GMT -5
I think Manfred has the nose wheel tied to the rudder. If you move the rudder you should see the wheels turn. I prefer the other way to do it, which also turns with the yoke when you have auto-coordination turned on. The rudder will not.
Hope this helps,
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Post by emfrat on Aug 20, 2008 15:59:55 GMT -5
Btw, is the australian Connie still flying? I have seen no pictures of 2008? Guy Guy - She was over in West Oz earlier this month, and I see in the events calendar there is another flight in a couple of weeks. www.hars.com.au/index.htmlI lived in the Illawarra for nearly 30 years before moving to Queensland. No sooner had I turned my back when they built an air museum with a Connie and a Cat ! My daughter still lives down there, so I will get a look at them one day - even just a listen would be great. MikeW
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Post by guy on Aug 21, 2008 1:01:57 GMT -5
I think Manfred has the nose wheel tied to the rudder. If you move the rudder you should see the wheels turn. I prefer the other way to do it, which also turns with the yoke when you have auto-coordination turned on. The rudder will not. Hope this helps, The frontwheels of the L1649 turn well, but with the original camber angle , even in a sharp turn, while on the Abacus and FSDZign Connies the outer frontwheel becomes vertical and leaves the ground and the inner one increases a bit the camber, as on the real aircraft. As a conclusion of this thread, which I began, I think we can retain what Tom, Mikew and Capflyer have said before: "The wheels are indeed cambered and it is to reduce rubber scrubbing and ease the pressure on the tiller wheel" "when the pilot steers the nose gear, the inside wheel increases its turning effect but the outside wheel becomes nearly vertical and has almost no turning effect" "It is working on the same principal as to why taking a motorcycle (or any 2-wheeled vehicle) and leaning it over improved cornering and traction. They are using this same principle on the Connie." www.airliners.net/photo/Breitling-Super-Constellation/Lockheed-C-121C-Super/0890853/L/Thanks to all Guy
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Post by mjahn on Aug 21, 2008 6:18:41 GMT -5
Actually ... we are currently attempting to tweak the Starliner's nosewheel steering. For one thing, we want the wheels to not turn when in flight, second, we want a narrower turning radius, third, we want the steering tiller to rotate in conjunction with the steering angle, fourth, we want to be able to power-rotate the wheels when static on the ground, and, yes, fifth, on the subject of this thread, we want one wheel raised in sharp turns.
Unfortunately, the principle What You Want is What You Get isn't operative in FS9 (or in the real world either). I'll keep you posted ...
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Aug 21, 2008 9:43:49 GMT -5
Thanks, Manfred - sounds great.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2008 12:23:58 GMT -5
You could control the nose wheel animation via xml so that when the plane has a nose up pitch and is at greater than or equal to 0agl the nose steering does not work. I am barely an acquaintance with XML and the real person to ask about how to do it may be Hiroshi or someone from POSKY because they extensively use XML animations. That may be one solution. Thanks for the awesome 1649.
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Post by mjahn on Aug 22, 2008 6:12:28 GMT -5
Yes, Hansi is going to do some xml coding along these lines.
The inclined nosewheel behavior, I am happy to say, has just been sorted.
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Post by guy on Aug 27, 2008 1:07:29 GMT -5
Yes, Hansi is going to do some xml coding along these lines. The inclined nosewheel behavior, I am happy to say, has just been sorted. That will make the already excellent 1649 perfect ! Thanks. Guy
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