Parking break pauses the aircraft mid air

[Cleptric]

The same bug was present in the 310 iirc.

[Krazycolin]

and again, why on earth are you using the parking brake in the air?

Please, answer this burning question....

[N4GIX]

It is not a "bug", it is intentional to keep the aircraft from moving even when the PB is set.

[Cleptric]

@Krazycolin Why not? I don't see anything that prohibits me to set the PB mid air.

Thx N4GIX, I understand this. I guess it's not possible to determine safely in P3D if the aircraft is in the air or not.

[Krazycolin]

Lol...

You can’t tell when and when you should not use the parking brake?

Really? Only when you’re parking. If you pulled it while you were taking off or landing, what do you think would happen?

We will look at a fix.

[Cleptric]

I read your posts as a not very polite way of dealing with a customers concern.
I was reporting a, in my opinion, bug on a product I spend 40$ on.

Now making jokes about that feels very disrespectful.

Thanks for looking into it.

[N4GIX]

Thx N4GIX, I understand this. I guess it's not possible to determine safely in P3D if the aircraft is in the air or not.

You can remove this intentional feature if you don't like it quite easily. Look in the ..\panel\TW_XMLGauges folder for the TW_Logic.xml file.

Open this file with notepad.exe (Win default) or notepad++.exe (freeware) and comment out these lines from this:

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    (A:BRAKE PARKING POSITION,percent) 0 >
    if{ 1 (>K:FREEZE_LATITUDE_LONGITUDE_SET) 1 (>K:FREEZE_ATTITUDE_SET) }
    els{ 0 (>K:FREEZE_LATITUDE_LONGITUDE_SET) 0 (>K:FREEZE_ATTITUDE_SET) }

to this:

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<!--    (A:BRAKE PARKING POSITION,percent) 0 &gt;
    if{ 1 (>K:FREEZE_LATITUDE_LONGITUDE_SET) 1 (>K:FREEZE_ATTITUDE_SET) }
    els{ 0 (>K:FREEZE_LATITUDE_LONGITUDE_SET) 0 (>K:FREEZE_ATTITUDE_SET) } -->

[Cleptric]

Awesome, thanks a bunch

[N4GIX]

Alternatively, you could replace that section with this version that will only work on ground:

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    (A:BRAKE PARKING POSITION,percent) 0 >
    (A:SIM ON GROUND,bool) and
    (L:TW_Chocks,bool) 1 == or
    if{ 1 (>K:FREEZE_LATITUDE_LONGITUDE_SET) 1 (>K:FREEZE_ATTITUDE_SET) }
    els{ 0 (>K:FREEZE_LATITUDE_LONGITUDE_SET) 0 (>K:FREEZE_ATTITUDE_SET) }

This will limit the 'freeze'

1. while on the ground and parking brakes set
2. or while the chocks are still in place

[Cleptric]

Nice, even better!