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Taxi throttle on A-26

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I'm aware of and have the "taxi throttle" add on for twin engined tail draggers,but can I also add it in for the SOH A-26 Invader please?
The Invader has a castoring nose wheel and obviously is steered by differential brakes and throttle.

Would the taxi throttle add on work with a three wheeler twin?
 
You can make the nose wheel steerable by editing the 7th number in the nose wheel line of the contact points in the aircraft.cfg file. For example:

//0 Class
//1 Longitudinal Position (feet)
//2 Lateral Position (feet)
//3 Vertical Position (feet)
//4 Impact Damage Threshold (Feet Per Minute)
//5 Brake Map (0=None, 1=Left, 2=Right)
//6 Wheel Radius (feet)
//7 Steer Angle (degrees) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - this number
//8 Static Compression (feet) (0 if rigid)
//9 Max/Static Compression Ratio
//10 Damping Ratio (0=Undamped, 1=Critically Damped)
//11 Extension Time (seconds)
//12 Retraction Time (seconds)
//13 Sound Type

[contact_points]
point.0=1, 5.00, 0.00, -4.82, 9000.0, 0,0.6, --- 47.0 ---, 0.24, 2.5, 0.8, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,0.0 (without those dashes)

The 0 after "point" is just the number of that point in sequence, not an actual contact point. It's pretty much always the nose gear point, and the zero on the third position after that, lateral position 0, shows it to be on the center line, like a nose wheel or tail wheel. The 47 in the seventh position indicates that the wheel can turn up to 47 degrees. A non-steerable nose wheel would have a zero there.
 
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Tried "taxi throttle" and added differential brakes into the mix,then removed "taxi throttle" and added nose wheel steering as per Mick's
instructions above.
Either work well.
If you're having problems "driving" your Douggie A-26 ,you've now got a choice,either taxi throttle and differential brakes or nose wheel steering.
 
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