Dave Perry wrote: > 1. If the tail wheel is not locked, I find it much easier to take off > after removing the coupling of the rudder with the brakes for both > main gear from the dc3.xml.
I'd be happy to junk this; David always hated it anyway. It was basically a hack to fix a problem I didn't understand properly anyway. :) > 2. It seems to me that the dc3 always leaves the ground before I > can raise the tail (even with full down elavator). This is not what > a real tail dragger does. This is also really good to know -- if you want to try experimenting, try modifying the tail effectiveness. In the <hstab> tag, there can be an effectiveness="nnn" attribute that multiplies the force generated by that surface. This is basically a guess right now, I find that for many of the jets, a value of 2 or so works well. In general, smaller surfaces generate more force per area, but there's no hard rule (too many other effects get in the way, like airfoil differences and wash effects). I think the DC-3 is still using the default effectiveness of 1, but that's only because it flew adequately when I tried it. I don't have any real world experience to compare against. Let me play with it tonight and see if I can get something that mimicks what you describe. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
