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Aircraft extremely difficult to turn on ground
Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 9:10 pm
by avgaskoolaid
Great aircraft so far! My main bug report/issue is that unfortunately it is very difficult to taxi this aircraft on the ground. I know that the A340 is a large plane that requires careful attention to taxi. However, I think there is something wrong with the nose gear turning system. It seems like you can only do maybe 15 degrees of turning, and if you turn the tiller any beyond that, the turning radius gets worse, as if the nose gear is 'skidding'. It's only possible for me to turn very, very slowly paying careful attention not to introduce too much rudder. Even then, sometimes I can't help but turn too wide and end up in the grass. Turning into the gate is especially difficult, as the plane does not have the nose steering authority range it should have at low speeds.
I am using a logitech extreme 3d pro joystick btw, in case this is relevant. So, I cannot use differential thrust or braking. Still, having flown various heavy airbuses in different sims across different developers, I think the turning behavior on the A340 needs to be tuned.
Thank you for considering this. I'm really enjoying this plane.
Re: Aircraft extremely difficult to turn on ground
Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 9:47 pm
by RicardoLVFR
avgaskoolaid wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 9:10 pm
Great aircraft so far! My main bug report/issue is that unfortunately it is very difficult to taxi this aircraft on the ground. I know that the A340 is a large plane that requires careful attention to taxi. However, I think there is something wrong with the nose gear turning system. It seems like you can only do maybe 15 degrees of turning, and if you turn the tiller any beyond that, the turning radius gets worse, as if the nose gear is 'skidding'. It's only possible for me to turn very, very slowly paying careful attention not to introduce too much rudder. Even then, sometimes I can't help but turn too wide and end up in the grass. Turning into the gate is especially difficult, as the plane does not have the nose steering authority range it should have at low speeds.
I am using a logitech extreme 3d pro joystick btw, in case this is relevant. So, I cannot use differential thrust or braking. Still, having flown various heavy airbuses in different sims across different developers, I think the turning behavior on the A340 needs to be tuned.
Thank you for considering this. I'm really enjoying this plane.
Hi, are you doing turns at 10kts maximum as we asked on the tutorial?
what exact speed are you using?
Re: Aircraft extremely difficult to turn on ground
Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 11:35 am
by fabian1990
+1 . I think even at low speeds there is a lot of slip in the nose wheel steering which is not realistic.
For 75-90 degree turns even with slow changes in nose wheel there is always a lot of slip there.
It would be nice to fix it so that there more contact.
Re: Aircraft extremely difficult to turn on ground
Posted: Sat May 11, 2024 3:13 pm
by RicardoLVFR
We are looking into this and see how we can improve for an update.
Re: Aircraft extremely difficult to turn on ground
Posted: Sun May 12, 2024 11:15 am
by ROG46
Yea I agree, it's hard to turn. Even at low speed and full right brake or left.
Re: Aircraft extremely difficult to turn on ground
Posted: Mon May 13, 2024 12:45 am
by swd282
I love the modelling, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to turn on ground. Just impossible. Also, something with the brakes: If brakes are activated during taxi (differential breakes) the tiller is centered and yoi have to re-center your joystick and turn again, making it impossible.
Re: Aircraft extremely difficult to turn on ground
Posted: Mon May 13, 2024 12:59 am
by RicardoLVFR
swd282 wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 12:45 am
I love the modelling, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to turn on ground. Just impossible. Also, something with the brakes: If brakes are activated during taxi (differential breakes) the tiller is centered and yoi have to re-center your joystick and turn again, making it impossible.
Right now, we suggest you do the turns at slow speed when doing 90 degrees or more., slow speed such as 4 to 6 kts when doing more than 90 degrees
We are working on improving this
Re: Aircraft extremely difficult to turn on ground
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2024 11:02 pm
by mseder
Same problem
Mats
Re: Aircraft extremely difficult to turn on ground
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2024 7:49 am
by 7heAngryVe7eran
The ground steering should be noticeably better in the next available patch or update.