Hydraulics and Landing Gear behavior?

[Maulkin]

Just a quick question regarding the hydraulics.

 

When I use the pressure release valve for the hydraulics I see the pressure quickly go to zero on the indicator, and the gear doors drop down as they should. But when I set the gear in the down position I kinda expected them to fall down from gravity, but it almost appears they are being operated by what should be non-operative hydraulics and they even lock in place the moment the are fully down. I was expecting to have to rock the plane a bit to get them to lock.

 

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

[-Rudel-]

This should be moved to the bug / error reports :)

 

Does this happen every time? Maybe it's intermittented depending of other variables. I just tested this too, but I don't hear the lock, unless I rock it.

 

Also, my tail wheel doesn't drop instantly with or without hydrolic pressure. And when I release pressure the tail wheel will not drop until pressure in turned on. A bug perhaps?

[Maulkin]

I was very careful to keep the aircraft level when I dropped the gear. It should not have enough pressure to engage the locks so when I slightly rock the aircraft I should see the gear move about, until I complete the full rocking motion to cause them to snap into place.

 

Ill see if I can create a video to demonstrate it.

[cichlidfan]

I was very careful to keep the aircraft level when I dropped the gear. It should not have enough pressure to engage the locks so when I slightly rock the aircraft I should see the gear move about, until I complete the full rocking motion to cause them to snap into place.

 

Ill see if I can create a video to demonstrate it.

 

A short track is what the devs/testers would find most useful.

[Maulkin]

OK a bit more testing. I flip upside down, then pull the hydraulics release valve, which should cause the bay doors to fall due to gravity but I am upside down so gravity should hold them in. What really happens is that they flip out anyways.

 

In regards to the landing gear I think they also might be scripted to fall, but I did note that as the gear is falling, if I nose over to produce neg-G's the gear will start to retract again but they are moving as though under power of the hydraulics!

 

I think this whole area is not fully coded yet, or they may not even think it is important. I just figured they would have wanted more attention to this detail when they do not have to invest the effort into complex avionics or weapons, so I thought I would just point this out for them :) After all they spend a great deal of time on how the little landing gear on the tail behaves!

[Maulkin]

Is it possible for this thread to be moved to "Bugs and Problems -> Flight Dynamics"?

[Yo-Yo]

Still WIP

[Weta43]

I think they also might be scripted to fall

It's still a WIP, but during early testing, if you pulled high enough G the gear could be seen 'extending' against the hydraulics and retracting again as the G dropped - so not scripted that I could see..

[-Rudel-]

Here's a track showing the Rock-to-Lock method without hydraulics. Watch the gear lights.

P-51D_Rock-to-Lock.trk

[Maulkin]

It's still a WIP, but during early testing, if you pulled high enough G the gear could be seen 'extending' against the hydraulics and retracting again as the G dropped - so not scripted that I could see..

 

No I saw the same thing:

 

In regards to the landing gear I think they also might be scripted to fall, but I did note that as the gear is falling, if I nose over to produce neg-G's the gear will start to retract again but they are moving as though under power of the hydraulics!

 

What I meant was that they might be coded to always act like they are under hydraulics pressure that is giving some force to extract them. But I get that it is a WIP, which is why I spend my nights testing it to help if I can. :)