Help please! Gear problem.

[Passenger57]

Hi,

from where dos FSPax get its value for its (pilot-induced) "too fast for gear" failure? Is it a value somewhere in the FDE (in that case, please point
me to it) or is it calculated somehow?

I have a Dornier 328 (R. Versluys model) that keeps having gear problems due to "excessive" speed - the problem is, in the FSP logfile I find an entry
"gearspeed=136" which roughly fits the IAS where my gear might malfunction. The 328 is a FAST turboprop and should really not have problems of this
(low-speed) kind...

The D328JET (Mike Stone model; that *should* perform similar) does not have this problem.

Thanks for any help

Pax57

[SWAFO]

I believe it takes it directly from the .air or aircraft.cfg file of the aircraft in question. I can't be sure though.

[Passenger57]

In the aircraft.cfg are entries flaps damage/destroyed speeds, but not for gear...

Thanks anyway.

Pax57

[SWAFO]

Must be the .air file then! I would think that the gear limits are in the same place the flap limits are (although looking in the aircraft.cfg
turns up an entry that says "//15 Airspeed that gear gets damage at (KIAS)", however it has no speed after it). I'm not sure then!

[Jetsgo]

You can totally delete this penalty in the More_Options section of FsP, and click Config . Proceed to editing your Career files (editing
defualts or creating new ones) BE SURE TO KEEP THE BACKUP especially if you don't know what you're doing!

[SWAFO]

I don't think he wants to get rid of the penalty Jetsgo.... I think he wants to know where FSP gets the "gear damage" value from.

[Jetsgo]

Ohh... well if you doooo want to get rid of it, that's how

[SWAFO]

Thanks!

[DanSteph]

aicraft cfg contact point... if not found reverse to a standard 250 kts

excerpt from 737-400:

//0 Class <0=none,1=wheel, 2=scrape, 3=float>
//1 Longitudinal Position (feet)
//2 Lateral Position (feet)
//3 Vertical Position (feet)
//4 Impact Damage Threshold (Feet Per Minute)
//5 Brake Map (0=None, 1=Left, 2=Right)
//6 Wheel Radius (feet)
//7 Steer Angle (degrees)
//8 Static Compression (feet) (0 if rigid)
//9 Max/Static Compression Ratio
//10 Damping Ratio (0=Undamped, 1=Critically Damped)
//11 Extension Time (seconds)
//12 Retraction Time (seconds)
//13 Sound Type
//14 Airspeed limit for retraction (KIAS)
//15 Airspeed that gear gets damage at (KIAS)

[contact_points]
point.0=1, 40.00, 0.00, -8.40, 1181.1, 0, 1.442, 55.92, 0.6, 2.5, 0.9, 4.0, 4.0, 0, 220.0, 250.0

Dan



Post Edited ( 08-29-05 02:45 )