can't taxi / take off

[maor grinberg]

Hello,

I'm having difficulties controlling the aircraft during taxi / take off roll.

I'm using HOTAS warthog  and ch pedals and when i try to taxi or take off, the plane starts spinning uncontrollably.

 

can you please help me ?

 

thanks in advance.

[Litjan]

Well, something is clearly out of whack with your system or the way you fly the plane - but its hard to tell without seeing a video or so.

Here are some ideas:

1.) Runways are possibly icy (check weather)

2.) Asymetric thrust (check that both N1 values are the same). Sometimes (when assigning two throttle axis for left and right engine) one thrust lever gets "stuck" - retard both to idle and then back up to "grab" the stuck one. This is part of the logic to allow "retarding" one lever during an engine failure for people with only one axis for thrust (oh the poverty out there...)

3.) Check nosewheel getting assigned to some axis you are unaware of. You can check in the external view if this is the case.

4.) Check that brakes are both released. Again, one brake could be assigned to some axis you are unaware of. You can display "brake data" with the DATA DISPLAY tab in the X-Plane menu.

5.) Strong crosswind that you are not aware of. Some people put a wind layer at 30.000 feet like 140/80 and then are not aware that this wind will also blow on the ground (unless there is another layer below it).

Let me know how it goes, Jan

 

Edited October 25, 2018 by Litjan