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Well, I've never had this problem before but for some reason, the nose gear on my C-7 will not retract. I use FSDS 3.5 and I've checked and double checked the part naming protocol but it still will not work. Main gear and flaps work fine but the nose gear and associated parts like the nose gear doors will not work. Does anyone have any ideas? Is this part controlled in any way by the .cfg file or the .air file? Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

Check that you have a stationary host part (block) named correctly. C_Gear01.

Link the other parts to it.

John

i'm not sure what you mean. I've built 50 or so planes and never had to use this. Where would it go and are you saying it would not be animated? Main gear works fine as usual just nose gear not working. (name c_gear).
Thanks

There is a parm in the cfg file but the chances of you altering just the nose gear and leaving the main gear as retractable would be doubtful.
If you posted your contact points we can double check to clear that.

Thanks Steve, I've never had a problem with nose gear not retracting. Now I will tell you this, I used my DC3/C47 cfg fileso it might have something to do with it being a tail dragger or non-retracting center gear (tail wheel), but i can not find anything in the cfg or .air file that applies sorry, I cannot attach the .air file.
Thanks so much

From
point.0 = 1, 20, 0, -7, 1200, 0, 1, 90, 0.2, 2.5, 0.695, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
to
point.0 = 1, 20, 0, -7, 1200, 0, 1, 90, 0.2, 2.5, 0.695, 0, 0, 7, 0, 0

Giorgio

Yep, Giorgio is on the right lines but not quite there. Parms 12 (extension time) and 13 (retraction time) have to be greater than 0 or the gear will not move.

What needs to be altered are these:-
point.0 = 1, 20, 0, -7, 1200, 0, 1, 90, 0.2, 2.5, 0.695, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
They need to be altered to whatever time you want the gear to take.

N.B. I noticed that you have the C-47 as having different times for left and right main gears, very common for aircraft of that vintage but later aircraft quite often near symmetrical for movement.

My suggestion would be to try the 12-13 parms used by the GAI aircraft and then adjust for taste once you have confirmed that they work.

Thanks Steve and Giorgio for the quick replies! I'll give it a shot.

Thanks guys, seems to be sorted out now.