Brakes and Take-off Power

[Yoda]

In the King Air (as in other turboprops), the proper standing take-off technique involves moving the power levers forward to the point
where the props are on the speed governors, so that when the brakes are released, you've got reasonably equal thrust from the
engines. Not doing this almost always leads to a waggling start to the take-off roll as you dance on the rudder pedals to compensate.

Whenever I do this, I get a penalty that says it's not a good idea to go to full power while on the brakes.

Is there a way to turn this off?



Post Edited ( 07-24-05 02:11 )

[PaulAH]

That'd be good actually. I get this penalty on Concorde just starting an engine on the ramp.

[Ryanamur]

No, you can't disable that one. My advise is to disengage the parking brake and to use the normal brakes.

I'll add the request in the development forum.

Phil



Post Edited ( 07-24-05 02:22 )

[SWAFO]

Sometimes, on short runways when we're heavy (happens at MDW quite a bit), we'll keep the brakes applied until the engines stabilize at
40% N1, so that we can get that extra "jolt" of initial acceleration, and takeoff with high gross, and a short runway. We won't keep the
parking brakes on though... that wouldn't be too good. We do what Ryanamur mentioned... apply foot pressure, and release when we're
ready. Try that.

[DanSteph]

this penalty is disabled for turpoprop in the next version and I'll add an option in "more_option.cfg"
to disable it for people that flight special aircraft.

Dan

[Ryanamur]

Dan, it might be a good idea to also disable it for pistons!

Phil