Boeing 707 (Cargo Liveries) nose wheel is completely sideways after lifting off from the ground

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Boeing 707 (Seems to be all Cargo Liveries)

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Release version as of 9/24/2024

Brief description of the issue:

The nose wheel goes completely sideways after lifting off from the ground. This seems to occur with all cargo liveries of the aircraft.
I tested the House Cargo, World Airlines Cargo, and Orbit Airlines Cargo, they all had the same issue.
Pan Am Passenger and Orbit Airlines Passenger did not have the issue.

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Takeoff any of the Cargo variants of the aircraft livery, observe sideways nosewheel in air.

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Version as of 9/24/2024

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I think this may be linked to the super high sensitivity of nose wheel control via tiller OR rudder inputs. There is only a very tiny band of control using either tiller or rudder before nose wheel flips to 90 deg. This is true while on the ground too, so I suspect any (even small) rudder input once airborne during take off would induce this nose wheel to 90 deg too.

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same as OP

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It’s a shame. This thread is fairly old now but the nose wheel has never been fixed. I just tried it again yesterday wanting to fly this iconic aircraft that set the pace for transcontinental travel. Actually wanted to try out some long hauls in it but it’s still busted. Sure, the aircraft isn’t super detailed like most but can the nose wheel be straightened out. It’s a real immersion breaker, otherwise the plane might be more enticing. I contacted Aeroplane Heaven about this but they referred me back to Microsoft/Asobo stating something about contractual agreements. So, here we are with food for thought. Maybe there’s more to it but little things like this should get fixed. I don’t want to be the pessimist but the simulator is about flying which centers first around the aircraft. No doubt things like scenery, weather, and finding interesting places to fly to are cherry on top but the planes are the meat and potatoes to the simulator. Some of us spend top dollar to get flyable aircraft but what exactly do we get? There are a lot of planes that are in sad need of a mechanic to make them minimally airworthy in the sim right now. Can we at least get them to the point where they don’t break the immersion factor and can fly from point A to point B without a glitch? Funny, heard a story one time long ago. A fighter pilot walks up to his plane and asks the crew chief if the plane was ready to go and the crew chief told him he wouldn’t get in the thing to save his life. The pilot looked at him without saying a word and walked off. The next day the pilot came back and asked the crew chief the same question and got the same answer. Only this time he ordered the crew chief to put on a flight suit, he was going for a ride. Needless to say from that day forward the crew chief made ■■■■ sure the plane was in top condition and ready to go not knowing if he would again be asked to take to the blue skies. Well, enough said, maybe someday the crew chief will get on this.

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To address some of the bugs, you can get the 707 2020 version on 2024, and then download the flightsim.to mods that were made for 2020 and it will make it work for the most part (like the LE flaps they never patched to fix). I don’t think there is a fix for the nosewheel, but at least that is a purely aesthetic bug and in the cockpit you wont see it.

Regardless, this bug should have been addressed and it’s a shame it’s not, because the 707 is an AVIATOR edition plane in MSFS2024. People paid for the most expensive digital package and they sadly got a plane that still has these issues well after it was released for 2020.

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Correct, it is aesthetic in nature and only detracts from the immersion and if I don’t watch the takeoff it wouldn’t matter. I guess it matters to me slightly more because I and my dad garnered a heap of hours on this airframe in the military (a military version of the 707) and I was hoping to fly some of my logged flights with a livery of my platform. I have a freeware model of the 707 which has all the liveries we flew on, I’ve just been hoping so much for a great payware model of it and I would pay good bucks for one put together even as good as say the A310, C17 or something like those. I read somewhere that a developer, I believe Aerial Sims was working on a B707 but don’t know the status on that model. Anyway I digress. I have got all the mods you mentioned and I’m one of those that took the leap this time buying the Aviator’s Edition. That’s why I mentioned about a lot of planes needing work. I’ve been through a few of them and gave up. I know Asobo is busy trying to stabilize the 2024 platform after that rocky start but I sure hope they come back and take a deep dive into the included aircraft and beef them up. Since the beginning of flight simulators (I mean that literally) they have been buggy in some way or another and IMHO 2020 has been the best looking sim ever, maybe not the best in aircraft and physics but certainly flyable. So, I’ll stick to 2020 for now and fly with what we have. Again, maybe someday, all we can do for now is keep being a squeaky wheel. At my age I don’t think I would do much past 2024 unless it was super fantastic from the get go. I certainly won’t do any more Aviator’s Editions without a lot of pre-purchase scrutiny. BTW, that story I told about the pilot and crew chief is true. The crew chief was my uncle :wink: He’s flying higher than any of us these days!