Thoughts on the new landing gear?

[Enorats]

Is it just me, or is anyone else finding the new landing gear difficult to use? The "original" small gear is just too small for many purposes.. and the med/large gear looks quite useful for many of those purposes, but the medium gear seems FAR too tall. It's barely any different from the large gear, and doesn't seem to fit the Mk 2 stuff in the slightest. Anything I've built with medium gear on a "medium" sized plane is just ridiculously high up, and unstable. It just ends up wobbling all over the place and crashing.

[moogoob]

I like the tiny ones though! The fixed ones and steerable one are great for little jets.

[Enorats]

Oh, definitely. The little cessna style ones work great. My only complaint is the angle "rear" wheels aren't quite at the right angle/height to match up with the front wheel unless you place it in a higher spot and raise the angle a little bit. My main complaint is that the "medium" retractable gear isn't in any way medium. It could stand to be 3/4 or even 1/2 as tall as it is.

[mikegarrison]

Is it just me, or is anyone else finding the new landing gear difficult to use? The "original" small gear is just too small for many purposes.. and the med/large gear looks quite useful for many of those purposes, but the medium gear seems FAR too tall. It's barely any different from the large gear, and doesn't seem to fit the Mk 2 stuff in the slightest. Anything I've built with medium gear on a "medium" sized plane is just ridiculously high up, and unstable. It just ends up wobbling all over the place and crashing.

Real life landing gear can be tall. It's all about weight and stowage (drives short gear) v. clearance for engines and rotation (drives tall gear).

[Enorats]

Right, but the landing gear on that jet is essentially the "large" version. That's a good size for that particular jet, and similar to the large B9 gear I used on the 300+ ton jet I built last night. The medium version should be made for the 50-100 ton planes, but doesn't fit them at all (nor does the small gear really, which has been an eternal battle to those not using B9).

To put it this way - the MK 2 plane I'm working on now, if given "medium" gear has landing gear that is taller than the entire plane from the bottom all the way to the top of the tail. It's on stilts. If my landing gear got any taller my engines would be flaming out due to thin atmosphere.

Edited April 28, 2015 by Enorats

[michaelhester07]

Bit overpowered... i had jeb in a space plane with the new gear and should have crashed into a berm at the island runway at 30m/s.. bounced up instead and came to a soft landing. The gear is kinda nice for making planes though.

[SpenSpaceCorp]

for some reason the wheels on my medium and large gear do not spin. At all.

[mikegarrison]

for some reason the wheels on my medium and large gear do not spin. At all.

Brakes?

[peachoftree]

If you want to scale them down, go into the part config and in the field that says something like scale = 1 and change that to something like scale = 0.75, it will make the part 75% its original size.

If that doesn't work, try rescaleFactor, I don't know what it does but the name sounds promising

Disclamer: may yeild unexpected or no results

[Randazzo]

for some reason the wheels on my medium and large gear do not spin. At all.

Mine don't function at all. They don't raise or lower, the wheels don't spin, nothing. It's like the plane is standing on pegs.

This results in performance you would expect from a plane on pegs when applying thrust.

Edit: Disregard, I'm a dingleberry. The wheels I was using were in the BahaSP folder included in the Taurus HCV download. Not sure if they're supposed to be there or not, but they don't work. New gear work fine.

Edited April 28, 2015 by Randazzo

[SpenSpaceCorp]

Brakes?

No, they seem to function as wheels should; they brake and they allow the plane to move. The spinning animation (or whatnot) does not work for me so the wheels always look static.