Increasing the Effectiveness of Parking Brakes?

[Whitey]

Hey,

          I need to know how to make my parking brakes in the F/A-18E more powerful.  They don't hold the aircraft still enough to do catapult takeoffs, so can anyone tell me how to do this?

           Do I need to edit the aircraft.cfg value or is the .air file?  If it's the .air file, where can I get a program to do this with, freeware if possible.  

Thanks....

[garymbuska]

I am not sure but you might have to edit both the .air file
& the aircraft cfg file.
To edit the .air file there is a progarm called AIRED that is freeware not sure where I found it at. But if you google it I sure you can find it.

[ozzy72]

Whitey old bean in aircraft.cfg look for;

[brakes]
parking_brake = 1        
toe_brakes_scale = 1.24

increase the magic number to achieve the desired effect

Ozzy

[BiggBaddWolf]

I have a similar problem with the Pilatus PC12, except when I release the brakes it starts to roll, anyone have any ideas on how to fix that?

[ozzy72]

Turn the engines off and don't park on a hill

[BiggBaddWolf]

hehe good advice  ;D

[Nek]

Hi

Just increasing the "toe brakes scale" in ur
aircraft config file to something like 2.5 plus as
many zeros as u like after the "5" shud do it.
Works for me.

Cheers/ Nek

[Whitey]

Thanks guys.  I'll give it a go.