On Friday 09 March 2012 13:27:19 Eric van den Berg wrote: > Agreed, but the as you are saying, the brake is hydraulic and therefore > there will always be a valve that traps the hydraulic fluid and keeps the > pressure on the brake pistons. This valve will always only be fully closed > in the end position (Just as a tip if you will be using a 'double'). This > is standard on _most_ small aircraft as there is only one predominant > supplier for wheels and brakes for small aircraft. The implementation may > be different, the equipment is the same on every single aircraft.
Most gliders I've flown do not even use hydraulics for brakes. And the parking brake often is nothing more than some hook or lever which can be used to lock the brake lever. But it's still a 0 or 1 thing. The brakes either are locked or not. Of course, full brake may still not be enough to keep the aircraft in place or not even to prevent it from taking off... Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
