Landing Gear Won't Deploy
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I'm not sure what changed, but I've been having intermittent issues lowering the landing gear these past half dozen flights in Starship. I have a button bound to the usual Toggle Landing Gear sim binding and it has worked well in every BS product, including Starship, until recently.
But now, a good portion of the time I hit the button, the gear lever moves into the down position, I see the load increase on the generators from the motor, and the gear doesn't move. I also don't hear them deploying.
Moving the lever with the mouse usually doesn't help, either. I'm below the gear extension speed, sometimes above and sometimes below the retraction speed, flaps in, flaps out, doesn't matter.
I have no failures and am thoroughly out of ideas.
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It seems speed or throttle position dependent and I'm not sure which (leaning towards speed). I'm in cruise just testing it, doing about 191 KIAS, and they won't come down.
I throttled back almost to idle to dump speed and at some point they started moving freely, somewhere around that 185/190 knot mark.
I couldn't find anything in the manual about interlocks, but 180-190 is when I'm trying to lower them on approach usually.
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What happened to me in the past was conflicting assignments. For instance, if I assigned the gear handle to a lever on my throttle quadrant, that would block raising/lowering the gear in the VC or via the keyboard. Check your assignments under settings -> controls
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Nick, you have any thoughts on what would be keeping the gear from deploying until below 190 knots?
@jmarkows flight_model.cfg:
damaging-speed = 190
