Tailwheel steering late series

[pilottj]

Greetings Mathias,

I got the late series for the World Cup special. Sorry the German team didn't make it. I heard Paul the Octopus picked Spain the winner over the Dutch. We shall see lol. Anyway I am really enjoing the A-9. However I am having some incosistent luck with the steering. I am running windows 7 64bit. I have noticed it starts fine and I think when I switch to the outside view and then back into the cockpit I loose my steering.

Cheers
TJ

[Mathias Pommerien]

Welcome aboard!

The Fw190 is equipped with an automatic tail wheel lock.
Push the stick forward to unlock it.

[pilottj]

lol yeah I am using the stick when it works, and it works fine, and pulling the stick to neutral locks the tailwheel fine for takeoff but I noticed othertimes the stick seems to have no effect.

[Mathias Pommerien]

Ah ok.
Question:
Are you running the Fw190 in "hard mode" or "just fly"?
Secondly, is that with all models or just one?

[pilottj]

I am using hard mode, as far as I can tell it seems related to view switching. I just did a circuit around the field without going to the outside views and I had control after landing with the stick foward. I had originally thought it might have somthing to do with retracting the gear and then lowering and it being 'stuck' in tailwheel locked. I have full version of FSUIPC and a handful of other addons. I am not sure if any of them might be conflicting. However when I first noticed this I decided it was time for me to do a fresh install of FSX, so I did a complete wipe and reinstall of FSX just to be sure but the tailwheel bug still remains. Let me research with other models and I will report

Cheers
TJ

[pilottj]

Well I have played around with it a little more, I think it might have to do with switching to the FW from another airplane. I created a 'cold dark' condition and saved it as a flight, now I can 'start' with a FW and it seems to be working fine now

Anyway, really fun plane to fly, and looking foward to the Taifun. I hope with it's success that an A-8N becomes possible.

Cheers
TJ

[Mathias Pommerien]

Ah ok, thanks for further investigation!
Generally it's always a good idea to switch through the views once after loading an airplane so that all gauges and code can get initialized properly.

As for the "N", who knows.
We are currently developing a set of modern gauges for the Taifun so we may well revisit the 190 at one point.
No promises though.

Glad that you enjoy the plane! As a real pilot you'll probably apprechiate how the craft reacts on controll surface inputs with correct coupled MOI.
Check out for instance how nicely she rolls on rudder input just above stall speed.

[pilottj]

Yeah the controls in the FW are very well balanced. Very agile yet stable make a fun cross country cruiser. I had some real time in a Piper Comanche which reminded me a little of it. It was also a very well balanced airplane like the SF-260 too. LOL as fun as an 8N would be, if you think about it the FW already has some good 'modern' instruments. The German instruments always seemed a bit more advaced than their US/British/Soviet counterparts of the time. At first the FW instruments seem a little itimidating but are quite intuitive and easy to read after some practice

Cheers
TJ