Air Brakes - Any chance of some air brakes

[goldfinger]

It would be nice to be able to put airbrakes on the throtle channel for a glider.

I've experimented with increasing the drag coefficient and introducing some thrust to compensate and then taking the thrust away to simulate brakes but it is not the same. Oscillations are damped out too much and too much height is lost at higher speeds.

[emo]

That would absolutely be a major plus for the glider-part!! The beautiful DG1000-model glides and glides and glides even longer.... imagine having an air-break on that one!

[emo]

Will this be a feature in the future?
I would really love to see this!

[cjcj]

Air brakes would be good.

[emo]

I experimented a bit and modifyed the .par-file on my DG-1000. I simply set the motorkraft-parameter to a negative value (I tried -10 to start with). Now when my DG-1000 floats along the runway and won't land, I just give some throttle, and it slows down and lands fine!

[Jürgen N.]

There are already gliders with air brakes available. Rather unknown and hidden...
Joachim Scholz ( skyflyer59@web.de ) has adapted air brakes to a Nimbus 4, to be downloaded at

A majestic bird!
Then a LO 100, an aerobatic oldtimer.
And, for me the most important, to a Pilatus B4.
The latter 2 he has not published in the net, I don't know why.
But as I fly B4's since about 25 years in any size, I have fine tuned the .par so it flys rather realistic in FMS.
If anyone should be interested, send me a mail.
Kind regards

[AussieJay]

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[Looee]

My MDM-1 Fox at [url]RC-Sim.de[/url] has spoilers/airbrakes. What I'd like to see is additional channel mapping added. The columns are there for 8 channels, yet only 4 work. Why not also have ballast dumping and crow mixing. I'm using an old Futaba 6 channel TX for my controller and the 2 extra channels work. Let's see working retracts and flaps on powered models too.

Regards

Lewis

[AussieJay]

i have no idea wat your on about. maybe because i dont create planes. anyway, that sounds cool!