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how to set Parking Brake independet from Differantial Brake

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Hello,

I looked all over the P3D v4.3 settings and i can't find the right setting. The Problem is that if i press the differential braking the parking brake is automatically released but i don't wan't that. I want that the parking brake only releases when i do so and not on its own. Does anyone now how to set differential and parking brake totally independent from each other?

Thank you a lot for Your help

Best regards from Berlin

As far as I know all real life aircraft work that way, LM likes to stay as realistic as possible. You will not find an in-sim setting to override that behavior. Maybe there is a third party app that will allow you to do that.

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Yup, Jim is correct, most aircraft will release the parking brake if you activate the brakes on the rudder pedal. You might be able to assign it to operate otherwise with something like FSUIPC.

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3 hours ago, jimcarrel said:

As far as I know all real life aircraft work that way, LM likes to stay as realistic as possible. You will not find an in-sim setting to override that behavior. Maybe there is a third party app that will allow you to do that.

Many do but not all. On a CRJ you have to depress and hold the brake pedals with considerable force to be able to pull up and rotate the mechanical parking brake handle to the locked position. If you don’t depress them far enough, the handle won’t lift. You have to do the same when releasing it. 

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17 minutes ago, JRBarrett said:

Many do but not all. On a CRJ you have to depress and hold the brake pedals with considerable force to be able to pull up and rotate the mechanical parking brake handle to the locked position. If you don’t depress them far enough, the handle won’t lift. You have to do the same when releasing it. 

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8 hours ago, Davinci36 said:

 Does anyone now how to set differential and parking brake totally independent from each other?

Yes. Welcome to the world of P3D where you can easily adjust the parkbrake to work like in most airliners.

Just add this line in the aircraft.cfg in the brakes section: 

[brakes] 

parking_brake_linked_to_toe_brakes = 0

Edited by J35OE

where in the world, (or P3D) did you learn that method?

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There are literally hundreds of little settings one could tweak by going through the cfg files line by line. Years ago one of the guys from Aces posted  a bunch of these undocumented "adjustments" for FSX.

 

Vic

 

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48 minutes ago, jimcarrel said:

where in the world, (or P3D) did you learn that method?

From the P3D SDK. http://www.prepar3d.com/SDKv4/LearningCenter.php

(I'm not aware that this entry was already available for FSX).

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1 hour ago, J35OE said:

From the P3D SDK. http://www.prepar3d.com/SDKv4/LearningCenter.php

(I'm not aware that this entry was already available for FSX).

I'm not sure this was available either - I was speaking generally. Don't have FSX installed any longer so can't check.

Vic

 

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Just tested in FSX, it works.. Diff (toe) brakes will not release parking brakes individually but with both diffs applied (or period key) the parking brake releases.

3 hours ago, vgbaron said:

There are literally hundreds of little settings one could tweak by going through the cfg files line by line. Years ago one of the guys from Aces posted  a bunch of these undocumented "adjustments" for FSX.
Vic

Vic, do you have a link to these or a scratch sheet with the undocumented mods?

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49 minutes ago, spokes2112 said:

Just tested in FSX, it works.. Diff (toe) brakes will not release parking brakes individually but with both diffs applied (or period key) the parking brake releases.

Vic, do you have a link to these or a scratch sheet with the undocumented mods?

Right after posting that I started looking. Several system builds later and can't locate the file. ☹️

 

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This is great!

 

Thanks for posting

 

Paul Watts - St Helens, Tasmania, Australia

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Thanks a lot for the discussion and the advice. I will try and let you know how it worked out.

thanks a lot and best regards from Berlin

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