Embraer 170 Brakes Fail warning

[ND6849C]

Very strange.

[Travis]

I think more info is needed.  Which SPECIFIC 170 (link) is it?   Don't assume fault on the designer, since many aircraft these days are created for FS9 or lower.

[ND6849C]

So Sorry.  The file I downloaded is ohy170.zip.  It doesn't have a readme, it does include names of members of the dreamwings team as designers, but it doesn't have an email for them.  Perhaps now you can see where the problem might be.

---ND6849C

[swordfish1227]

there is obviously a problem with the lear45 gauge not being able to "sense" something that isn't modeled into the aircraft itself. Sometimes this happens with aliased panels and there isn't anything you can do about it.

[ND6849C]

I'd tend to agree, however, if that were the case, then the brakes fail light would come on in the lear, which it doesn't.

So somewhere in the cfg of the embraer lies the answer.

[N2744X]

I'd tend to agree, however, if that were the case, then the brakes fail light would come on in the lear, which it doesn't.

So somewhere in the cfg of the embraer lies the answer.  But..what part is related to the hydraulics and/or the brakes?

No it wouldnt come on in the lear because the value that the light runs on is part of the lear, not the embraer: the aliased panel in the embraer looks for a value that is built into the lear .air file, and doesnt see it in the embraer .air file. Give me a few days and I will modify the default lear panel for your embraer so that the light goes out.

[ND6849C]

I know this is an "old" problem, but I just found the answer last night.  I got an email from the designer of an FSX Citation 525, whose plane I recently downloaded.  Here were his instructions for the Citation, which had the same problem as the Embraer:

First, when you open the aircraft.cfg file, scan down to the brakes section. You should see this:

[brakes]
parking_brake = 1       //Parking brake available
toe_brakes_scale = 1.2  //Brake scalar

Now put 2 forward slashes in front of all 3 lines like this:

//[brakes]
//parking_brake = 1       //Parking brake available
//toe_brakes_scale = 1.2  //Brake scalar

Finally, copy and paste the following under the above 3 lines (This is a new brakes statement and should do the trick):

[brakes]
Parking_brake = 1       //Parking brake available
Toe_brakes_scale = 1.2  //Brake scalar
Auto_brakes = 0
Hydraulic_system_scalar = 1  //On brakes dependant on the hydraulic system, ratio hid system to max brake hid pressure

Save the file and try it.

It worked, so I wanted anyone reading to know that John B. Loney of lfssd.net knew what to do for this.