July 30, 200718 yr Hi,The last day or two, I've tried flying the FFX model, as up to now I've only used the Terry Gaff model. I'm having problems with lowering the landing gear. It has been intermittent, yet when it does occur, I can only lower the gear when the flaps are extended to 30 degrees. I haven't modified anything on the FFX aircraft, i.e., I use the .air, .mdl & aircrat.cfg files that were installed for the FFX aircraft in the Tinmouse II package. In the panel.cfg file, it is aliased to the Tinmouse II panel (alias=fsfsconvpanel.b732ADV). Anyone else ever had this problem? Should I try reinstalling the Tinmouse II package & updates?Mike A.
July 30, 200718 yr Hi Mike,Yes I've had this problem from time to time, usually when I'm doing a panel/aircraft merge. You need to check that you have the correct "gear_system_type=X" line in the aircraft.cfg under the contact points section. For this panel it should read "gear_system_type=0" If it's not there then put it in.Hope you can now 'clean up' properly. best regards Rick Canham Sweden
July 30, 200718 yr Author Hi Rick,Thanks for the suggestion. I checked the aircraft.cfg file, and gear_system_type=0 was in the contact points section. I tried putting other values there to see if it would have an effect, but nothing changed. Thanks for the input.Mike A.
July 30, 200718 yr Mike;The problem is unrelated to flap setting. I see the issue...it's in the aircraft.cfg file contact_points section. In the first three lines (point.0 through point.2) the second to the last parameter is the airspeed at which gear operation is inhibited, and in the FFX aircraft.cfg (which was derived from the original FFX config file) that speed is set to 180 KIAS...WAY too low.I recommend changing the last two params on those three lines to the same thing as in the TM2 config file: 285,310 instead of 180,250, which would give you:point.0 = 1, 38.00, 0.00, -7.15, 1574.80, 0, 1.216, 70.0, 0.22, 4.1, 0.639, 6.1, 6.3, 0, 285, 310point.1 = 1, -1.75, -10.00, -8.45, 1574.80, 1, 1.5371, 0.0, 0.55 , 2.5, 0.639, 6.3, 6.7, 2, 285, 310point.2 = 1, -1.75, 10.0, -8.45, 1574.80, 2, 1.5371, 0.0, 0.55 , 2.5, 0.639, 6.2, 6.6, 3, 285, 310RegardsBob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VSantiago de Chile Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
July 31, 200718 yr Author Hi Bob,Thanks so much for your reply. I changed the settings in the contact_points section as you recommended, and it works fine now.This also gives me the opportunity to thank you for all your efforts in keeping the TinMouse project alive, it's such a joy to fly this aircraft. Thanks!!Mike A.
July 31, 200718 yr No problem, Mike - and we've both learned something - thanks very much Bob! best regards Rick Canham Sweden
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