Wheel breaks F18

[oldcrusty]

22 minutes ago, Skysurfer said:

 

What about runway slope? Different runways across different maps "could" have a different friction value. (just an assumption of course).

 

Level. I smacked the runway at 900'/min but that's well within the 'norm'

 

Edited April 13, 2021 by Gripes323

[Notso]

On 4/9/2021 at 7:32 AM, Rainmaker said:

If you are trying to compare heavy/passenger jets to fighters in terms of stopping power, you are far off the mark. Smaller brake stacks, a lot less of them, only two main tires...there’s not even a slight comparison there.  Fighters aren’t made to use up the brakes, they are very prone to generating a ton of heat, etc, etc and that’s with light landing weights. Anti-skid systems meter the brake pressure, so in a lot of cases, you get less pressure than you would with the system turned off. The system is designed around control, not max stopping power. 

Yep, in the F-15E for instance, we would aerobrake all the way to almost the far end of the runway, drop the nose and then let it roll until it reached taxi speed and then use the brakes to control the turn off into EOR.  If someone overcooked the landing and landed long and had to get on the brakes early..... then even with anti-skid - you had a very high chance of hot brakes and worst case blown tire plugs.  Well, worst case is a fire, but we won't go there.  Brakes in a fighter are really only meant for taxiing and some moderate braking after landing or after a high speed abort.  IME, almost all high-speed aborts resulted in hot brakes and/or ending up in the departure end cable.  

[GremlinIV]

AntiSkid are now fixed in the patch so now you can stop and no black marks - all done

 

[Skysurfer]

5 hours ago, GremlinIV said:

AntiSkid are now fixed in the patch so now you can stop and no black marks - all done

 

 

Yep can confirm, working as it should now.

[Stearmandriver]

Nice!