Author Topic: controll over flaps?? (Read 383 times)

phentop · « **on:** April 01, 2002, 03:32:57 PM »

Do I have to turn off combat to have controll over my flaps?
I try to change them in flight to slow or manuver and they
dont move..?

aknimitz · « **Reply #1 on:** April 01, 2002, 03:41:24 PM »

Combat Trim has nothing to do with your flaps. What controls the flaps are the keys q and w. What controls whether or not you may drop your flaps is the speed of your aircraft.

The P51 for example will allow you to use flaps utpo about 300mph, these are called combat flaps. Planes like the 190, 109, La5, La7, Yak have flaps, but cannot be dropped until about 150-180.

SO you arent doing anything wrong, but I suspect you are just going to fast to get the flaps down.

Nim

Tac · « **Reply #2 on:** April 01, 2002, 08:40:47 PM »

hey, THERES a nifty idea. Autoretract flaps only when you got Combat trim on

*hint**hint*

KroBaar · « **Reply #3 on:** April 02, 2002, 10:30:45 AM »

The one thing I would like to see, is if you were able to lower your flaps at a lower speed, and forget to raise them, they shouldn't automatically be raised once you exceed a certain speed. You should receive damage for being forgetful, imo.

Tac · « **Reply #4 on:** April 02, 2002, 10:41:59 AM »

most plane flaps will "blow up" (aka retract by sheer force of the air passing through them)... but some plane's flaps *cough* just cant and didnt do that.

phentop · « **Reply #5 on:** April 09, 2002, 12:40:21 PM »

Thnx for the responses -- has helped me in A2A slowing and watching em go by for the 6