Cant taxi below 40 Knots

[lachy909]

Having a problem where, even if im moving forward the rudders wont move the aircraft left or right. I`ve tried looking for a tiller but dont know where it is im the using the saab 340A in X-Plane 10

 

[WR269]

21 minutes ago, lachy909 said:

Having a problem where, even if im moving forward the rudders wont move the aircraft left or right. I`ve tried looking for a tiller but dont know where it is im the using the saab 340A in X-Plane 10

 

On the left panel, behind the parking brake...the big circular control....push it in to engage the steering tiller....you also have to do it after landing

 

[lachy909]

That worked thanks alot

[Muchimi]

This reminds me that the Saab (at least mine) is a Ferrari on the tarmac with throttles in ground idle.

Two questions on the proper way to taxi this thing:

- I observed in RL that some of the turboprop operators taxi on one engine only - I haven't flown a turboprop in some years now, but nearly all my flights (which included Dash 8 and B1900D and a Saab 340B eons ago.  Is that a recommended practice?  The second engine was typically turned on but a few minutes before t/o.

- Short of using brakes like crazy, what is the recommended way of controlling ground speed on this aircraft while on the ground for taxi?

Thanks!

 

[Tchou]

use brakes, One engine taxi is for fuel saving...

never seen it before take off myself, more after landing... I guess it prevents loosing balance in fuel tanks, and allow engines to warm up at same speed.

[sichars1968]

Pull the throttles back into the beta range.

[Muchimi]

3 hours ago, sichars1968 said:

Pull the throttles back into the beta range.

Thank you - It never occurred to me to move the throttles below idle unless attempting to reverse. 

[sichars1968]

You're welcome.

[Junglist]

Can i assign some key to that steering tiller? It's a pain to push it with mouse during landing.

[Muchimi]

At work right now so I can't check.  I think there is either a dataref for this in which case you may be able to bind a key to it from within a lua script in FlywithLUA or as a command in which case it would show up in your x-plane keybinder as an available command.  You may need to expand the available commands exposed by the Saab.