787 Nosewheel steering

[Flight_Bandit_ 15]

Hi everyone, 

Firstly, apologies if this has been discussed before! 

Not sure if I am doing something wrong but I seem to have very low steering with the nose wheel? 

Is this a known issue or have I been doing something wrong? 

Thanks! 

[NoSyMe 1]

Are you using your Rudder pedals? Because the big airliners are usually steered with a Tiller. A little wheel on the side of the cabin. Check if you can bind an axis to it. 

[highflyer2020 607]

How fast are you going when you turn? You can't get it to turn much if you are doing 20 knots.

Edited August 30, 2020 by highflyer2020

[Mike S KPDX 597]

Tiller bind axis? I dont think that exists in the settings.  I wish it did, but I could not find anything like that.

[DMullert 216]

No tiller axis exists at the moment in the sim, but it has been asked for and Asobo is aware.  I opened a Zendesk ticket with Asobo to get this addressed and the issue has now been closed.  Crossing my fingers that it is added in the upcoming patch next week.  It is almost impossible to taxi the heavies without the tiller at the moment.  In fact, even the smaller aircraft are challenging at the moment.  Maybe I need to do something with my pedals sensitivities and null zones.

Dennis

[jcjimmy 150]

Flight Bandit - "I seem to have very low steering with the nose wheel? "

Hi,

You might try differential braking - (*) = left brake, (-) = right brake on the number pad. This has helped get around on the taxiways.

[JETPETER2 166]

Tiller exists assign keys to steering L R C

[Flight_Bandit_ 15]

Thank you very much everyone!

[Flight_Bandit_ 15]

very helpful!

[VIPERGTSR01 22]

I noticed the same thing, just using the rudder for nose wheel steering is limited on the 787. Using differential braking works a charm. 

[RaptyrOne 1,405]

My son had this issue in his sim but I did not. We came up with a solution that might have solved this. Check your weight and balance. Seems that this can be set very far backwards leaving the aircraft nose wheel steering almost ineffective. When we moved weight forward, things were much better. If you are not adding fuel and weights into the 787, just flying in the condition it loads, seems WB can be too far aft.

Differential braking acts on the main gear, hence it will work, even if the nose is too light. You do not need to assign a dedicated axis to the nose wheel steering (tiller) for the plane to turn.

Edited September 1, 2020 by RaptyrOne

[Flight_Bandit_ 15]

6 hours ago, VIPERGTSR01 said:

I noticed the same thing, just using the rudder for nose wheel steering is limited on the 787. Using differential braking works a charm. 

Tried it and works very well! 

Now I must learn how to fly it! 😂

4 hours ago, RaptyrOne said:

My son had this issue in his sim but I did not. We came up with a solution that might have solved this. Check your weight and balance. Seems that this can be set very far backwards leaving the aircraft nose wheel steering almost ineffective. When we moved weight forward, things were much better. If you are not adding fuel and weights into the 787, just flying in the condition it loads, seems WB can be too far aft.

Differential braking acts on the main gear, hence it will work, even if the nose is too light. You do not need to assign a dedicated axis to the nose wheel steering (tiller) for the plane to turn.

Thank you! 

Wright distribution is good to know. 

Next I need to learn how to fly the 787😂

[NovemberUniform 156]

On 8/30/2020 at 9:20 PM, DMullert said:

I opened a Zendesk ticket with Asobo to get this addressed and the issue has now been closed.

Thanks for opening the ticket. I think for obvious reasons we need a true axis mapped to the tiller function. Everything else can only be a placeholder.

[Uwajimaya 118]

The flight_model.cfg has a setting that allows you to change to nose wheel steering degree. Problem is - the 787 flight_model.cfg is hidden somewhere (probably it's part of the deluxe or whatever package). If someone can figure out where that file is, I can tell you what the nose wheel steering is set to.

[VIPERGTSR01 22]

11 hours ago, RaptyrOne said:

My son had this issue in his sim but I did not. We came up with a solution that might have solved this. Check your weight and balance. Seems that this can be set very far backwards leaving the aircraft nose wheel steering almost ineffective. When we moved weight forward, things were much better. If you are not adding fuel and weights into the 787, just flying in the condition it loads, seems WB can be too far aft.

Differential braking acts on the main gear, hence it will work, even if the nose is too light. You do not need to assign a dedicated axis to the nose wheel steering (tiller) for the plane to turn.

Interesting thanks for pointing it out. I will check this out later.

I will see how this changes the flight dynamics as I found it a bit odd also.