Neters, I have a General Aviation question, or a Tri Gear KR Question: How does Caster settings affect taxi, landing and take-off stability? From my roadracing days, we would change the caster (not camber) settings of the car to negative caster if we wanted a more aggressive turn-in. This in turn would cause the car to be less stable on the straights. You were constantly making minute little "adjustments" to keep the car going in the intended direction. But the car really "wanted" to turn-in on turn entry and would be a real joy going through the turn on a short track with tight narrow turns. Conversely, we would add positive caster to make the car more stable on the straights, which would cause a sluggish turn-in. desirable on a long track with wide, long sweeping turns. If the nose gear geometry causes negative caster of the nose wheel, will that cause the aircraft to exhibit like characteristics of those described above? Could that be the cause of shimmy of the nose gear? or make shimmy worse?
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