Airbrake/Tail Chute Link

[RAFAIR100]

I have a downloaded F-101C.       When the airbrakes are deployed using the "/" key, the tail braking chute also deploys.     Is there any way I can separate these functions and assign the braking chute to another key?

[Groundbound1]

I would hate to say definitively without trying it, but I don't think so. That kind of effect is usually something that is modeled into the aircraft itself by the designer. Any info in the readme?

[ozzy72]

Change the assigned key for your airbrake and that should sort it

[commoner]

Change the assigned key for your airbrake and that should sort it

... :-?......how's that again Ozzy?....commoner :-/

[RAFAIR100]

Thanks to both.   I assigned a different key to the airbrakes.    The airbrakes work fine on the new key.   Unhappily, the tail chute still works right along with them.     Thanks for trying.

[gypsymoth]

Ask a silly question but can't a cfg be edited to remove a reference to a 'chute?

[Hagar]

Ask a silly question but can't a cfg be edited to remove a reference to a 'chute?

No. The chute is part of the visual model. It's presumably been tagged to deploy with the airbrake command.

The only way to change it would be to modify the original source file.

[commoner]

...mmm.....rafair you are obviously into this type of aircraft...I am not, so could you explain the use of air brakes and chutes in this kind of situation. In "real life" would they be available separately or is it just a whim of yours.........sorry if I seem a bit dim here

The modeler of this one must think they always deploy together or why would he do it this way.....

 Just wondered that's all....commoner

[gypsymoth]

Thanks Hagar.  Where is the "original source file" ?    

As for 'chutes deploying - my Gnat deploys one when / is depressed as it has no reverse thrust.  End of my expertise here  8-)

[Hagar]

[quote]Thanks Hagar.

[gypsymoth]

Thanks.
My Gnat does that!   8-)

[RAFAIR100]

Thanks to all for your comments.      For Commoner, I have flown a lot of aircraft with airbrakes (to slow down more rapidly than would be possible by simply closing the throttle(s)) and with landing drag chutes to slow the aircaft on landing and ease the drain on the brakes.     Some aircraft - notably the B-47 - were so clean that it was quite tricky to lose speed on the approach and you really wanted to carry a fair rpm setting to make sure that they would all spool up evenly in the event you had to go-around.    Hence, the later B-47s had an approach chute fitted to provide more drag on the approach.    This enabled you to carry higher rpm for the same approach speed.       For most of the high performance aircraft I flew, it was customary to 'pop' the airbrakes on touchdown at the same time as the landing chute was deployed.    At high approach and touchdown speeds, the far end of the runway could get awful close awful quickly.     Sorry if this reads like a 'lecture'.      Anyway, I now conclude that I can't do much about my F-101.       I'll just have to think of the landing chute as an approach chute and let it deploy when I use the airbrakes on approach.      After all, this is only simulation.

[commoner]

....ok raf....thanks for that....all a bit technical for my little old grey cells to REALLY appreciate.........I'll stick to my lovely old rusty (AVALON texture) c172 which I use for 99.9% of my flying..........mmmm...wonder if a drag chute would help me from over shooting those tiny strips I keep trying to land on.....commoner

[Zaphod]

.........mmmm...wonder if a drag chute would help me from over shooting those tiny strips I keep trying to land on.....commoner

LOL..more likely to pull the tail clean off

I use the Avalon texture too. Really nice and grubby.

Best.
Zaphod

[commoner]

LOL...Oops!...better not try that then .....those rivets are loose enough already.....

 Ain't she a sweetie though?....commoner.