Simviation Forum - Albatross X Nose Wheel Locked!

May 16^th, 2011 at 11:24am

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Hi Folks,

For those of you who have the Albatrossx SJ Freeware, I came up on a whole new set of 'Military liveries' and it includes Shockwave Lighting. I installed it last night/early this morning and now all looks great but when I try to take off, the nose wheel acts as if the parking brake is on!

I get all these sparks flying up and hitting the windshield when I throttle up to take off. Also, I try to set or release the parking brakes, (CTRL + .), and I get no response. It doesn't even come up on the bottom left of my screen to indicate that the brake is set.

I went into the aircraft.cfg file and changed the Parking Brake=1 to Parking brake = 0 but no cigar. I changed it back so that wouldn't be an issue later on. But it acts like the nose wheel isn't out and the front of the plane is dragging even though it appears level and as it should.

Does anyone have any guesses as to where in the cfg I should be looking?

The frustating thing is that I found and dowloaded this livery/light change early this morning, (about 1:30am) and I don't remember where I got it from or the website that in was in so I can't email the person who wrote these changes.

My previous AlbatrossX versions had no problem like this. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You

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Reply #1 - May 16^th, 2011 at 12:43pm

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From your comments and the 'military livery pack' file discription my guess it is caused by the revised 'float' contact points in the aircraft.cfg file so the floats now scrape.

Downloaded the original and the military livery pack and though I haven't installed or flown the plane, comparing the aircraft.cfg files it appears that is the case.

The easiest solution is to copy the [contact_points] section from the original aircraft.cfg and replace the [contact_points] section of the new/revised aircraft.cfg.

Both the original aircraft and the military livery pack can be found here-http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=albatross&categoryId=54

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Reply #2 - May 16^th, 2011 at 3:42pm

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Thank You very much Dave3cu for your reply. However, what I said was that the Nose wheel was acting as if locked up and the the sparks were coming directly from that, not anywhere else.

That said, I believe that copying and pasting the original contact points back into the cfg file is a good suggestion. I'm going to try that within the next few hours. But wouldn't I be ok copying the contact points from my "old Civilian Albatross" which I had before this new Military livery series?

I never had this problem with the Civilian version. I'm going to try that first and if no luck, I'll use the link you were good enough to supply.
Thanks again! (I will update the results when I get them).

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Reply #3 - May 16^th, 2011 at 9:55pm

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Rich,

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what I said was that the Nose wheel was acting as if locked up and the the sparks were coming directly from that, not anywhere else.

I installed the civilian ac with the new military aircraft.cfg and the sparks do come from the new float contact points. If you look from the front you'll see the sparks coming from 3 points in an area about 4 ft. wide by the nose wheel. That's the float points.

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But wouldn't I be ok copying the contact points from my "old Civilian Albatross" which I had before this new Military livery series?

Yes, that's what I meant, copy the contact point section from the original civilian version.

Or you could raise the contact points in the military aircraft.cfg that are causing the problem. In points 10, 11 and 12 change the -9.67 to -7.67. Gets rid of the sparks and still floats ok.

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