HiI just wondered if anyone else has had problems with the landing gear and flaps on Manfred Jahn's various excellent versions of the Lockheed Constellation. Although the gear and flaps retract at the beginning of the flight, they frequently do not extend when the time comes for landing, although the problem is not necessarily consistent. I do not have this problem with any of the other addon aircraft on fs9. I have searched the various file lists to see if there is any downloadable fix for this problem but cannot find any.BillWindows XP Pro SP2; Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.0Ghz CPU; Arctic Cool 7Pro; ASUS P5N-E-SLI Motherboard; 2GB Corsair 800Mhz DDR2 RAM; 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800GTX Dual VGA Graphics card; 2x 500GB SATA 7200RPM Hard Drive; 650W (2 x 12V) PSU; 1000GB Western Digital External Hard Drive; 150GB Western Digital External Hard DriveAll running 245GB of fs9 fun!

HiI just wondered if anyone else has had problems with the landing gear and flaps on Manfred Jahn's various excellent versions of the Lockheed Constellation. Although the gear and flaps retract at the beginning of the flight, they frequently do not extend when the time comes for landing, although the problem is not necessarily consistent. I do not have this problem with any of the other addon aircraft on fs9. I have searched the various file lists to see if there is any downloadable fix for this problem but cannot find any.Bill

You have extended your flaps or lowered your gear at too great a speed - check the "Hydraulic Integrity" shows 100% by right-clicking the "tick" icon. I'm not sure but I think you may be able to reset it from there - try clicking on the figure and see what happens.John

You have extended your flaps or lowered your gear at too great a speed - check the "Hydraulic Integrity" shows 100% by right-clicking the "tick" icon. I'm not sure but I think you may be able to reset it from there - try clicking on the figure and see what happens.John

Thanks John - you were spot on! I need to be a little less sloppy with my flying!Bill

You have extended your flaps or lowered your gear at too great a speed - check the "Hydraulic Integrity" shows 100% by right-clicking the "tick" icon. I'm not sure but I think you may be able to reset it from there - try clicking on the figure and see what happens.John

Thanks John - you were spot on! I need to be a little less sloppy with my flying!Bill

Thanks John - you were spot on! I need to be a little less sloppy with my flying!

No problem - you can guess how I discovered it!I meant to add that in principle it isn't unique to the Constellation, failure of gear or flaps through speed can be built into any FS aircraft through settings in the aircraft.cfg but perhaps in most cases the authors give you enough leeway to not have a problem. I think also that it normally only applies according to realism settings but much of the Constellation's features are controlled directly by the panel gauge programming so will not be controlled by those settings.Best wishes,John