Nose wheel is out of control?

[cretedog]

Does antone know how to stabilize the nose wheel on 3rd party aircraft? I have calibrated the joystick, adjusted the trim, but the problem is still there and makes it almost impossible to taxi. What happens is the wheel will not stay in position it moves all over left and right. Any solutions greatly appreciated..thank you!

[mike]

Have you calibrated the rudder axis as this controls the nose wheel. Also does the nose wheel work from the left right arrow keys on your key pad.

[TextRich]

Can you elaborate on how you usually taxi, cretedog? Many aircraft real and simulated do not have nose wheel steering. Like mike said they usually turn via rudders. For sharper turns you can use rudder with differential braking (left braking and right braking not at the same time). I have a rudder. Your nose wheel control will be better with aircraft that specifically have nose wheel steering in its advertisements and/or instruction manuals.

[cretedog]

Yeas I was flying the CRJ700 and the King Air, but I fixed the problem. I did calibrate the stick and reduced the sensitivity on the stick and trimed down a bit and solved the problem. Everything is fine now and a big thank you for the input.

[cretedog]

I think what happened was during pushback my nose wheel got mistakenly turned and it just got out of whack for a while until I re-calibrated it..

[TextRich]

Happy Flying cretedog!

[cretedog]

Thanks! Same to you BF Bullpup!!!

[mike]

Great you fixed it.

[cretedog]

Thanks Mike!

[Thogmar]

Originally posted by BF Bullpup:

Can you elaborate on how you usually taxi, cretedog? Many aircraft real and simulated do not have nose wheel steering. Like mike said they usually turn via rudders. For sharper turns you can use rudder with differential braking (left braking and right braking not at the same time). I have a rudder. Your nose wheel control will be better with aircraft that specifically have nose wheel steering in its advertisements and/or instruction manuals.

No, there are no aircraft that taxi using rudder action, the aerodynamic forces are far too weak to have any effect at taxi speeds. All aircraft do use rudder control to steer on takeoff, but that is not taxiing. One exception is early tailwheel and tailskid aircraft that used bursts of power over the rudder to do quick pop turns, but there are very few of those aircraft in general flight sims.

If you're taxiing fast enough for the rudder to have effect, you're taxiing too fast, and in the real world would be quickly wearing out tires and brakes.

You are correct about them using differential braking if they don't have a steerable nosewheel.

[TextRich]

Originally posted by Thogmar:

No, there are no aircraft that taxi using rudder action, the aerodynamic forces are far too weak to have any effect at taxi speeds.

Rob Machado in the in-sim Solo Flight: Taxiing ground school and my real-world Cessna 172 instructor would disagree with you. :-/ Perhaps you are thinking of airliners that use tiller steering in real life?

If you're taxiing fast enough for the rudder to have effect, you're taxiing too fast, and in the real world would be quickly wearing out tires and brakes.

In the real world I use the rudder for standard turns and the rudder plus toe brake for tighter turns as needed. I don't get told by my instructor to slow down, which implies my taxi speed was appropriate. Perhaps the aircraft I fly in-sim and in the real world are more sensitive to the rudder than your aircraft. Or your reply was meant for larger aircraft rather than smaller GA aircraft.