Rear wheels

[tosh]

Hi there, can anyone tell me how to unlock the rear wheels on old aircraft, so as to steer the plane. There is no controls in the cockpit for  this task,the aeroplane I`m trying to steer is the Whitley V.

Regards  
Tosh

[dave3cu]

If we're talking about the same ac, AW38 Whitley V by Ed Cook:

The aircraft.cfg has it configured without a tailwheel lock (tailwheel_lock = 0), however the tailwheel is a 'castor' (unsteerable).

With a castor tailwheel, steering is done using differential braking and, in this case of

[tosh]

 Cheers Dave, much appreciated I can now park up and get off the runway.

Tosh