I know I must be missing the obvious but does any know where the parking brake is in the Extra 330?

it apparently doesn't have one.  You have to press the key command for the brake release which i think is "ctrl ."  

As far as I know, the 330 does not have a parking brake. Might want to try the keyboard shortcut (default) CTRL -> NumPad DEL (probably need NumLock on). Or if you have the parking brake set to a controller button, that should do it.

If you're feeling really adventurous you could edit the systems.cfg file for the plane and change "parking_brake = 1" to "parking_brake = 0". (Have not tried that myself, so no idea if it would actually work). Make a backup of the file first.

...jim

 

8 hours ago, JimBrown said:

As far as I know, the 330 does not have a parking brake. Might want to try the keyboard shortcut (default) CTRL -> NumPad DEL (probably need NumLock on). Or if you have the parking brake set to a controller button, that should do it.

If you're feeling really adventurous you could edit the systems.cfg file for the plane and change "parking_brake = 1" to "parking_brake = 0". (Have not tried that myself, so no idea if it would actually work). Make a backup of the file first.

...jim

 

Thanks.  I thought I missed something as all default FS aircraft have the basics for things like this.  It's interesting the Extra is the exception.

Apparently, it is; 

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Underneath front left seat corner. Open checklist and hit the eye on parking brake.
Thanks, how did you move the camera to see it? The parking brake is not mentioned in the checklist.
So from what I found it was CTRL + C i think on keyboard mouse. If you're using mouse only then my guess (could be wrong but wanted to try to help) would be middle mouse button? And controller / gamepad would be Y button. Otherwise what I did at first was just hunt around in the cockpit till I found the release and clicked on it hahaha

borrowed from another forum. It would appear to be impossible to see, even if it is modelled there. The better solution is to use a keyboard key or other controller binding to set and release the parking brake, then there is no need to worry about where it might be.

Edited July 14, 20214 yr by Reader

2 hours ago, Dillon said:

Thanks.  I thought I missed something as all default FS aircraft have the basics for things like this.  It's interesting the Extra is the exception.

It is my understanding that the full size Extra 330 does not have a parking brake. So, MS/Asobo are modelling this aircraft faithfully in that respect. 😉 They probably left the parking brake system activated due to not being able to model/animate wheel chocks at this time.

And probably to prevent "newbies" from starting the engine without applying the brakes and having the aircraft start moving on its own.

That's my speculation anyway.

...jim

1 hour ago, Reader said:

Apparently, it is; 

borrowed from another forum. It would appear to be impossible to see, even if it is modelled there. The better solution is to use a keyboard key or other controller binding to set and release the parking brake, then there is no need to worry about where it might be.

I found those exact instructions with a Google search which proved to be 'bogus'.  Looks like there's no break release switch like others have stated above in this thread.  The checklist in FS doesn't reference a parking brake either.

It does have a parking brake in the simulator though. Perhaps all of the developers thought that there was little point in modelling something that cannot be seen.

23 hours ago, JimBrown said:

If you're feeling really adventurous you could edit the systems.cfg file for the plane and change "parking_brake = 1" to "parking_brake = 0". (Have not tried that myself, so no idea if it would actually work). Make a backup of the file first.

So I decided to be adventurous. Did what I described above and what do you know, no more parking brake.

However, it also nerfed the throttle on my CH Yoke (old one). Also, F4 no longer worked. I could use F3 to increase the throttle, but as soon as I touched the throttle on the yoke, it just went back to idle. Since I don't really fly this plane, I copied my backup file back and continued on with my life.

As always, YMMV.

...jim