SGA A300 Brakes

[Pen-15]

I have SGA's A300 for FS9 with Beno

[Moach]

the wheel brakes are not supposed to stop the plane from rolling if you apply full throttle  ::)

in fact, they are not supposed to be used for stopping the aircraft in high speed, for that you have reversers and spoilers...


but if you have a severe lack of braking power, you can always tone it up by tweaking the aircraft.cfg file

let's see...

hmm, theres an entry about brakes in the aircraft.cfg, it looks like this:


[brakes]
toe_brakes_scale=0.961333   <--this is what you wanna change
parking_brake=1  
differential_braking_scale = 1.0   <----this might not be there as it only appears on planes with rudder-axis-activated differential brakes


*disclaimer: i might be wrong, so remember to back up your files before tinkering with anything

c ya

Moach

[Pen-15]

Thanks for the tweak information. Those brakes are so weak that you can't feel the difference when you're going 10 kts or 200 kts and at idle thrust. Same goes with parking brake.

Ofcourse i know that the brakes won't stop the plane with full thrust. Actually landing airliners DO most of braking with wheel brakes in some airports where is somekind of noise limits, and use thrust reversers only at aproximately 40% N1 for the reason that they have some revolutions in the engines in case of a go-around. Spoilers are used for slowing down while airborne, but as they deploy at touchdown they're used for killing the lift of the wing, some aircrafts have separate ground spoilers for that reason which are positioned closer to fuselage than air brakes.

Back to my problem. There is actually a gauge which shows that how much braking power is in use, i'm not sure but i think that it shows hydraulic pressure in the brakes. It has scale to 0-5 if i remember correctly, but i get countings only to 1. There is a screenshot in that panel's manual where that braking gauge shows max, and that was 5 if i'm not mistaken.

Just checked that .cfg file out and it looks like this: [brakes]
toe_brakes_scale=1.000000
parking_brake=1

Looks normal to me, so i think that the problem is in that panel.