[Freiwillige]

Hi I am wondering if somebody could ad wheel chalks to all aircraft so that I can properly warm up my engine without holding the break key for 5 minutes.

[PooBear]

Chalks for toy planes
or
Chocks for real planes

[Lefty Hartnett]

Hmmm . . . I believe chocks are automatic when taking off of a carrier.

But not at an airfield---is this correct?

[P/O W. 'Moggy' Cattermole]

You can get chocks on carriers.

[Freiwillige]

Yup I know you can get them on carriers but they had them on airfields as well and with good reason. So the code is there just need to transfer it to be used off of a carrier.

[Guest]

There are chocks on some land airfield types too, seem to be on the metal grate runways and some concrete ones

I don't know, but perhaps it depends on runway type or an option in the mission builder to have them or not .. it's a ground object, not a plane part, so I don't think it's related to any particular plane(?)

[Triad773]

Yeah I tried using chocks on cement and no joy :???:

It'd be a nice feature for the new jets 8)

[European Snake]

Yeah I tried using chocks on cement and no joy :???:

It'd be a nice feature for the new jets 8)

So would the 1/3 runway hook.

[Pirate]

A quick fix, while you wait for a mod which might add chocks to concrete runways is to assign brakes to an axis - like the slider on the x52 (or mouse wheel, though don't know if that will work) that way you can leave the brakes on without holding down a key, and the benefit of analogue braking.

[European Snake]

A quick fix, while you wait for a mod which might add chocks to concrete runways is to assign brakes to an axis - like the slider on the x52 (or mouse wheel, though don't know if that will work) that way you can leave the brakes on without holding down a key, and the benefit of analogue braking.

Thats actually more realistic. Chalks are for parking only.

[Oh_Frustration]

There are chocks on some land airfield types too, seem to be on the metal grate runways and some concrete ones

I don't know, but perhaps it depends on runway type or.......

The chocks are available on all runway types listed in "Ships" in FMB. Those narrow concrete and black metal runways are "test runways" that are classed as ships. They even sink sometimes.

[Murilo Specht]

Chocks are used in airfields aswell, at least on piston engined aircraft (small aircraft), because in most of them, when you turn on the engine, you have to throttle up, to open the admission and let air in, or else, the fire of combustion could go through the admission during engine start, but it's pretty common to happen.

Sorry if I got something wrong, it's been sometime I had this class.

[White Owl]

In real life I made my living as a general aviation A&P mechanic for several years, and also used to fly small aircraft occasionally. The only times I've ever seen chocks intentionally left blocking the aircraft's wheels during engine start and run-up were when testing the engine(s) for maintenance work. If the pilot expects to actually go anywhere, he removes the chocks before engine start. Brakes are perfectly suitable for holding the aircraft in one place, even at full throttle.

That's for small civil aircraft anyway. Military may do things differently.

[US_GRANT]

In real life I made my living as a general aviation A&P mechanic for several years, and also used to fly small aircraft occasionally. The only times I've ever seen chocks intentionally left blocking the aircraft's wheels during engine start and run-up were when testing the engine(s) for maintenance work. If the pilot expects to actually go anywhere, he removes the chocks before engine start. Brakes are perfectly suitable for holding the aircraft in one place, even at full throttle.

That's for small civil aircraft anyway. Military may do things differently.

Speaking as a military (OK EX military) Acft mechanic, we used to keep chocks in place until directed by the pilot to pull them so he could taxi out of parking. It was used partly as a safety measure in case he bumped the throttle(s) or an engine malfunctioned and started running up on it's own.