Rudder and Nose Wheel steering

[ssemmartin]

Hello. First of all congratulations for this excellent plane, and sorry because my english

In most of planes, when you asign the rudder and brakes to pedals (Saitek in my case) and joystick to the Nose Wheel steering, nose wheel moves just few desgrees each side when you move the rudder (pedals), and much more when you move the NWS (joystick), like in real life. I´ve noticed that both moves a lot. I know that this plane is based on plugins to simulate the real procedures.

Is this a bug? does the real SF34 have Nose Wheel Steering?

Regards and thank very much to the developers for including the Customs Commands to make a home cockpit (my wife hates all of you )

Edited January 12, 2016 by ssemmartin

[^Wolf^]

Yes, real life SF34 does have Nose Wheel Steering.

On the captains side panel there is 'Tiller' to control nose wheel steering. You push down on top of the tiller to electrically activate the nose wheel steering, hydraulics actuate the nose wheel position.

 

If using rudder pedals only on the ground, the nose wheel will castor (move freely). This is why you see the nose wheel changing direction with rudder only.

On takeoff the tiller is used until approx. 60-80kts. Tiller is released then rudder is used as it is highly effective for directional control above approx. 60-80kts.

 

Maybe for simplicity of users and/or programming, the Rudder and the Tiller function in Xplane are combined (Maybe only if nose wheel steering is not assigned).

I do not know if this is correct or true, someone from LES may provide you with some more information about the specifics of the sim programming and user input.

 

^Wolf^