Wheel Weight

[Neotician]

In my pursuit of smaller and smaller SSTO's i've noticed the weights of wheels being way out of proportion, the below image shows the weight ratio between landing gear and rover wheels.

My suggestion, Lower the weight of landing gear, half a ton is way over the top for a metal stick with a wheel on it, slightly bigger than a kerbal

[astropapi1]

The airplane landing gear are massless in-flight. It's best to build and balance your plane, and then add the landing gear.

[Neotician]

The airplane landing gear are massless in-flight. It's best to build and balance your plane, and then add the landing gear.

Are you sure? don't they just have zero drag?

Then being massless in flight and not in the sph doesn't really make sense to me :s, and in any case, they should have mass!

[Starglider]

Yep. Take a look at the second pic on this forum page: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/52257-SSTO-spaceplane-won-t-gain-enough-speed-without-losing-altitude/page2

If it had mass, the test rocket wouldn't have flown straght with the gear hanging way off on one side like that.

Personally, I think the gear should have "true" mass, and that it doesn't is a bug, but that the "design" mass is still way too high at 0.5 tons (or maybe that a typo in the text field?). Maybe it should be a tenth of that? But it won't matter until they fix the "true" mass.

[pa1983]

Yea Landing gears are massless in flight but have mass in SPH/VAB so place last as mentioned.

Its also weird that the high traction wheels have lower mass and power consumption then the original wheels.