Reverse trhust beyond 60 knots.

[VNAS_007]

Hi there.
I was thinking oof something today when I made the genious thing called "powerback" and got 300 points of penalty for using thrust
reverse beyond 60 knots. I know that in real life it is common to use this methode to get back from gate or stand. But in FSPax it is
prohibited due to engine damage reasons. Is there any way of turning this feature of?

[SWAFO]

You can disable the reverse thrust penalty in the more_option.cfg file that's located in the FSPassengers/config directory of your copy of
FS9.

Actually, these days powerbacks aren't very common at all (they were widely used with Turbojet aircraft about 15-20 years ago). With the
advent of the high by-pass turbofan, powering back from the date can be quite dangerous, not only to the engines, but also the
individuals inside the terminal and the groundcrew. Standard procedure is a pushback now. Some aircraft occasionally will still
powerback from the gate... most notably these are the turbojet aircraft such as the 737-200, etc.

I disabled the reverse thrust penalty in my copy of FS9, simply because realistically we will occasionally use reverse thrust below 60KTS
when landing... search the forums if you'd like a more in-depth explanation of why it's realstic to have the penalty disabled.

[ILikePlanes]

how do you reverse thrust?

[Jetflyer]

The option should be to have reverse thrust allowed below 60kts on specific aircraft, i.e, T-tail planes with rear engines like the Boeing 727, DC-9,
CRJ-700 etc... because these have no safety issue concerning FOD as far as I'm aware in reality, and use low-bypass turbofans.

So an option is to have a system in FsP detecting your plane as a T-tail w/rear engines by type (727, DC-9) and then enabling reverse thrust under
60kts but not on other planes like 737-777 and Airbus's etc...



Post Edited ( 08-21-05 01:27 )

[SWAFO]

As I mentioned, it's realistic to disable the penalty on ALL aircraft (including high bypass turbofans). Right now, as it stands it's either
disable all, or disable none.