Landing gear screwed up

[alstr]

Incredibly weird series of events today. What should have been a short hop on a Saturday afternoon between KCRW and KDCA turned into hours of restarting and weird bugs.

First, when I loaded up the sim I noticed the landing gear looked very strange, with the nose gear at a 90 degree angle and the main gear twitching. I didn't leave it like that. This was a new scenery I had loaded, Yeager, which has quite a detailed custom mesh, but I don't know if that was the problem. I think the aircraft seemed to think it was in flight.

I tried reloading the aircraft, but when you reload aircraft, it is impossible to spawn because the button is greyed out? So I had to completely quit X-Plane.

In any case, I created a completely new airframe, that must solve it surely, and I spawned at different location in the same airport. Again the gear was screwed up.

When I started taxiing I had a 'steering INOP' message and nose wheel steering didn't work until I re-toggled that switch.

On takeoff, I blew every tyre, losing control quite a bit, and X-Plane produced about 100 popup windows to tell me, which took about 3 minutes to clear off the screen. I reloaded it to before takeoff and the exact same thing happened so I just had to takeoff. I checked failures and there was nothing listed...

 (The front gear missing was just X-Plane's replay mode not showing it for some reason).

When I landed the tyres were fine.

I am not saying all of these are the fault of the CL650, but it was odd.

Edited Saturday at 04:09 PM by alstr

[alstr]

The tyres blowing I do believe is particular to this airport's mesh. Going over a ridge in the runway seems to set off a chain reaction. It doesn't happen with any other aircraft I've tried though, and the Challenger doesn't show it as a failure.

[Pils]

On 1/24/2026 at 11:05 AM, alstr said:

In any case, I created a completely new airframe, that must solve it surely, and I spawned at different location in the same airport. Again the gear was screwed up.

There's something very wrong with that mesh.

[Pils]

On 1/25/2026 at 11:18 AM, alstr said:

the Challenger doesn't show it as a failure

It's not a failure generated by the plane, it's done by X-Plane. The simulation is being too aggressive.

[Pils]

On 1/24/2026 at 11:05 AM, alstr said:

When I started taxiing I had a 'steering INOP' message and nose wheel steering didn't work until I re-toggled that switch.

Steering can't be enabled when the nose wheel is not mostly straight.