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Increasing the Effectiveness of Parking Brakes?

PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:24 am
by 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.... ;)

Re: Increasing the Effectiveness of Parking Brakes

PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:33 am
by 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. 8)

Re: Increasing the Effectiveness of Parking Brakes

PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:09 pm
by 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

Re: Increasing the Effectiveness of Parking Brakes

PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:31 pm
by 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?

??? ::)

Re: Increasing the Effectiveness of Parking Brakes

PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:58 pm
by ozzy72
Turn the engines off and don't park on a hill ;) ;D

Re: Increasing the Effectiveness of Parking Brakes

PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:05 pm
by BiggBaddWolf
hehe good advice  ;D ;D :o ;D

Re: Increasing the Effectiveness of Parking Brakes

PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:09 pm
by 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

Re: Increasing the Effectiveness of Parking Brakes

PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 5:10 pm
by Whitey
Thanks guys.  I'll give it a go. ;)