Landing wheel weight

[sporkafife]

I think it's pretty obvious that the stock aircraft landing wheels in the game are too heavy, as having three point gear will weigh well about 1.5 mass units.

My question is what would be a non-OP value to change the landing gear mass to? I don't really want to install any more mods, but I don't want any more super heavy wheels making my planes more difficult to build!

[allmhuran]

Unless something has changed recently, landing gear is actually massless outside the construction facilities. This can be a slight issue since landing gear will appear to change your centre of mass in the SPH but will have no effect once launched, so get your plane balanced before adding the gear.

[sporkafife]

Unless something has changed recently, landing gear is actually massless outside the construction facilities. This can be a slight issue since landing gear will appear to change your centre of mass in the SPH but will have no effect once launched, so get your plane balanced before adding the gear.

Really? I saw that the landing wheels weighed 0.5 units and though they were unnecessarily messing up my ships delta-v

[allmhuran]

Yeah, they have a part mass listed, and when you attach them your CoM will shift, but once you launch they become massless.

[Red Iron Crown]

The VAB/SPH lies about part masses. See the full list of massless parts here.

[Claw]

Really? I saw that the landing wheels weighed 0.5 units and though they were unnecessarily messing up my ships delta-v

If you are using new versions of MechJeb or Engineer, they have been updated to not include the landing gear mass in dV calculations.

To make CoM placement simpler on myself, I simply went into the part.cfg for the landing gear and set mass = 0. Then it won't mess with you in the VAB/SPH.

Cheers,

-Claw