Nose Gear Sinks

Jamie4590 Guest
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Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:19 pm

When I'm thundering down the runway on take off I've noticed the nose gear sinks in to the ground which makes it more difficult to rotate the aircraft. Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening?

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Jonathan (99jolegg) Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4112 Location: UK
Answered
Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:42 pm

Its a problem with the mesh for that area or the contact points of the wheels.

Elkinallen was the resident expert on contact points - he hasn't been around for a long while. Read these:

https://forum.flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/5779/contact-points-explained-and-some-fixes/

https://forum.flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/5657/landing-gear-sinking-in-runway-landing-realism-etc/

https://forum.flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/4340/contact-points/

😉

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Tailhook Chief Captain
Joined: Oct 12, 2005 Posts: 7013 Location: El Dorado
Answered
Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:45 am

Jamie4590 wrote:

When I'm thundering down the runway on take off I've noticed the nose gear sinks in to the ground which makes it more difficult to rotate the aircraft. Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening?

The fact that the contact points are out of sync doesn't actually affect the handling (in your case rotation) of the aircraft.

If you want to save yourself the trouble of editing the contact points, get an aircraft that has been properly updated from FS2002 to fs9 or, even better, get one that was designed for fs9 in the first place.

Other than that, follow the links to Elkinallen's tutorial and start burning the midnight oil 🙂

Jamie4590 Guest
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:27 pm

Thanks guys. Wow those links are certainly not for the laymen.

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