Does one use the cowl flaps as spoilers?

[Guest Dean]

>Where the drag should be modelled is in light twins where >they do make a difference on single engine work. Peter,As usual, an enlightening answer. I may have to see how well this is modeled in the Kodiak, I mean Navajo.

[Guest]

There is only one aircraft in FS that already has the cowl flaps modeled correctly that I am aware of. The FSD Commander 115 has them connected to the Spoiler axis and they do add drag and create a pitch change when opening or closing them. http://www.ktone.org/images/FSD_ken.jpg

[Guest TimD]

The Seneca V also models this as well. When you open the cowl flaps levers, drag is induced by calling the spoiler function in FS. [link:www.fsheartland.net]http://www.fsd-international.com/team/Heartland_sig.gif

[Guest gasebah]

Hi Tim,is this function also induced when you use the original FS2002 command for opening the cowl flaps, or only when you mouse click the levers? When I move the FS2002 spoiler axis, will this move the levers, or will it change the drag. I am assigning keys to me quite complex homecockpit, so the infomation would be very useful. I am flying your very well made Seneca 90% of the time. The other 10 % are shared between the FSD Cheyenne and the Flight 1 C421.Thx fr yr help.Alex

[Guest TimD]

Thanks for your support and enthusiasm.You have to use the mouse control built into the Seneca panel. The problem with keying the spoilers any other way is that it triggers a hidden bug in FS 2002 that will impact some of your other standard keyboard commands. Specifically, the split throttle functions. Triggering any control surface function based on a global change in another aircraft condition will invoke this bug. Doing it by mouse command is the only way to avoid the problem. I realize this makes it inconvenient for home cockpit enthusiasts, but using this kind of global command will cause too many problems for most users.Hopefully Microsoft will correct this for FS 2004. [link:www.fsheartland.net]http://www.fsd-international.com/team/Heartland_sig.gif

[Guest gasebah]

Hi Tim!Too bad.I will have to drag the throttle window to a monitor than and emulate the mouseclick with mouse2key. There is always a way though sometimes through te backdoor.Thx fr the enlightening answer (much better than the one I got redarding my De-Ice Meter question in your support forum btw).Alex