Really enjoy flying the Hawk III, although it took me a few tries to get the takeoff right. I had a couple of questions. First, I can’t figure out how to retract the gear;
You do indeed have to assign a key in the controls section ... there are 2 commands, manually raise / manually lower gear ... assign something easily remembered and still unused, like for instance <ctrl>+G / <shift>+G ... and also remember, by hitting these newly assigned keys just once, the gear will not raise or lower itself.
Much like using an old fashioned crank, you have to continually keep on hitting these keys until you get the message 'gear lowered' / 'geared raised'. I haven't counted how many times is necessary, but I would think something around 20 times is what I do ...
You'll hear a whirring/cranking sound as you do this and should you be looking at an outside view of the plane in F2 for instance, you will gradually see the gear being raised/lowered.
This is a well done little bit of simming, nicely atmospheric of what must have been for the pilots a strenuous task of cranking or turning a lever somewhere while trying to keep the plane level.
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Topic: Hawk III Frankenplane. (Read 39986 times)
