Released-Harpoon WIP Peek-a-Boo

Thank you very much Milton and team for this great present.
As others have said it is a stunning model and a joy to fly.
As I look around at the classic twins in my hanger I notice that a large percentage of them have your teams signature on them.
Thank you for giving us a window to experience what these magnificent aircraft are like to fly.
They bring a lot of pleasure to the virtual skies.
Merry Christmas to you all.
 
The great thing about this era in aviation is the friendliness of the aircraft. They slide on like a comfortable glove and forgive you like the family mutt. First checkride with this gem produced that at home sort of experience. My home base is KMMH, real world and sim. I always take the new birds out of KMMH, 7145 ft. thirty miles down the hill to KBIH 4140 ft. This bird was like stepping in to a larger version of the D-18 Beech. Top of Sherwin Grade ease off power and settle at 500FPM to the Bishop pattern. Slipped in at the threshold with minimal input then just wait for the ground to come up underneath.
Great flight dymanics . Thanks Milton
If you ever develop the urge to go native FSX with bumps I'd love to trick this one out.

Great looking model and VC, I can't wait to take on the paint kit.
I'm always happy to contribute my skins for these beauties.
 
mrogers said:
I noticed the tail wheel lock lever was behaving weirdly and would move on its own accord and lock in whatever up or down position it chose and nothing I could do would make it budge. I looked in the panel CFG, found the tail wheel lock gauge and thought aha so I commented it out and now the lever works perfectly and locks and unlocks as it should. I know it is a WIP....but I thought I should let you know.
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The tailwheel lock is linked to the elevaorinput.
When you pull back on the elevator the tailwheel locks, when you push the elevator forward it unlocks.
Which is what the gauge actually does.
 
The TailWheel Lock Lever

Thanks to everyone for the warm holiday wishes and kudos for the team.


The TailWheel Lock Question

I know that lever moving "on its own" can be a distraction.

I can remove the yoke locking mechanism or disable the lever.

What are your thoughts or preferences?
 
I have seen this... but I never gave it much thought, Milton. I'm good with it the way it is. I can just comment out the "gauge" that controls the tail wheel lock lever I suppose, but since it is a "WIP", I just ignored it. Really enjoy flying it regardless... spend alot of time looking at the plane in the spot.

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Milton Shupe said:
Thanks to everyone for the warm holiday wishes and kudos for the team.


The TailWheel Lock Question

I know that lever moving "on its own" can be a distraction.

I can remove the yoke locking mechanism or disable the lever.

What are your thoughts or preferences?
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IMO as is, Sir.
 
As is. I use multiple setups. When I fly a Shupecraft, I switch to differential brakes, castoring nose or tailwheel and independent throttle control. The tailwheel lock is fine IMHO.
BTW: I'm flying the Harpoon in FSX with no glitches or annomalies.
 
option 3....i added the word "wheel" after "tail" in the above talked about gauge, and find all works
as it should. i would like the tailwheel lever to remain.. try this and see if it helps..

gauge09=ST_Harpoon!tailwheel lock, 92,451,24,19

rgds
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I do like being able to click on the lever to lock or unlock. I didn't know that the tailwheel gauge was linked to the elevator movement, but perhaps it can be offered as one of three options for the user to try out, one for those who still prefer to turn the tailwheel for steering, second for those who want to use the elevator for locking or unlocking the tailwheel and thirdly for those who would prefer to control the lever themselves.
 
Sounds like the same setup as on the Howard 500. I have no problems with it.
 
Personally I appreciate the "novelty" of that particular function, I think the SR-7 my friend Joe owns has a similar function built into the tailwheel assembly...or is it his C-195. Which ever one it is has no lever to activate the lock...it's simply done by loading the tailwheel in the straight position by pulling the yoke back into your lap.

I don't think it is worth having two separate models though. If it is simply a question of editing a line in the panel.cfg then options are good. Otherwise I would say leave it as is.

Cheers
Stefan
 
As far as I know the reason for pulling back for the TW of any Cessna is to weight the assembly and insure it castors to the ahead range, which allows some degree of rudder linked steering. All taildraggers are normally taxied with the stick/yoke full back to weight the tw to increase it's effectivness and to counter any possible nosing over tendencies. Larger and multi engine aircraft generally have locking tailwheels to help counteract torque and aid crosswind taxiing. Such aircraft are too large for normal mechanical rudder linked steerable tailwheels.

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