Flap Speed

[tag86]

I have a couple of planes that the flaps extend and retract verrry slowly and was wondering what entry I would have to edit in the cfg file to speed it up a bit.

Thanks

[ozzy72]

Open your aircraft.cfg and look for extending-time under the flaps entry and play with the time setting

[tag86]

Thanks for the advice

[FridayChild]

Are you sure it's a good idea? Probably the author has set the times based on the real aircraft operation. I prefer to be as close to reality as possible.  :)

[tag86]

I know it may not be realistic but I find it makes it easier to adjust speed and decent etc.

[beaky]

"To each his own", etc... but I'm dying to know: what plane exactly is giving you this problem?

For what it's worth, I've found pretty much all of the FS9 models I've flown to have flap function that seems real enough... some are very quick (manual-lever flaps on the Scout), and some are very slow (pneumatic flaps on the DC-3), but all make sense.
It's one of the easiest things, I guess, to simulate realistically.

What I have also discovered is that no matter what you're flying, if it has flaps, you must, to some degree, anticipate what will happen when you deploy or retract them, and also deploy or retract them at the right point in the flight and within the correct airspeed range.