Landing Gear Folding

[Vancraft10]

I have no idea why but whenever i put a compact robotic pivot on my landing gear so my plane can taxi it just breaks and folds

[Captain]

Is your physics set to "high" in the settings?

Are you using hardpoints to lock them?

[NiceGuy]

You need to lock the gear in position when it's extended. Best is to use hardpoint connectors. Also increase the ratio of the pivot. Higher ratio is higher power, you may have to increase the speed too, as higher ratio makes the pivot slower.

[Vancraft10]

Originally posted by NiceGuy:

You need to lock the gear in position when it's extended. Best is to use hardpoint connectors. Also increase the ratio of the pivot. Higher ratio is higher power, you may have to increase the speed too, as higher ratio makes the pivot slower.

There is not any locking happening, but I don't think that that is the problem because it is breaking at the turning point by the wheel
The plane is
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3254600063
The compact pivot goes above the wheel on the front landing gear

[Captain]

Originally posted by Vancraft10:

Originally posted by NiceGuy:

You need to lock the gear in position when it's extended. Best is to use hardpoint connectors. Also increase the ratio of the pivot. Higher ratio is higher power, you may have to increase the speed too, as higher ratio makes the pivot slower.

There is not any locking happening, but I don't think that that is the problem because it is breaking at the turning point by the wheel
The plane is
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3254600063
The compact pivot goes above the wheel on the front landing gear

Is your physics set to "high" in settings?

With it on high I have never had to change gear ratio of spam weight. Often I can run it without locks on lighter builds.

[AdmiralTigerclaw]

There is nothing wrong with your aircraft. You need to go into options and ensure your physics settings are in 'high'.

When the physics settings are in lower settings, things like robotic pivots kinda' become 'rubber' and will flex in unexpected ways. But the 'taxi' pivot on your aft gear behaves as expected on my system.


My only qualm with your design is that you've designed something that completely ignores the fulcrum principles governing most all aircraft.

https://i.imgur.com/ELgSaxI.png

It's possible that you can be breaking your taxi pivot on takeoff as well, from downward force applied by having your tail gear WAY too close to the pivot point.

[Vancraft10]

OK that helps, the reason why my physics isn't on high is because I don't want it to affect preformance