Hi pilots,
look how awesome and realistic glowing brakes are, showcased in the PMDG Queen of the Skies:
Will this feature be implemented in MSFS too some day? 
This would make landing much more interesting and realistic with an actual need of reverse thrust (instead of just lazily pressing the brake button until the plane comes to a halt because there is no brake damage no tire damage simulated anyway.)
I would like to have realistic brake damage and glowing brakes implemented in this sim.
This would make landing much more challenging and interesting.
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In the real world, all 16 of those tires would likely have been flat. Main wheels have a soft metal plug that melts at those temps to release the pressure before the tires can explode, which would cause significant structural damage.
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Given PMDG’s attention to detail, I think that means that those aren’t hot brakes; it’s just the boss rims of the most blinged-out Trip in the fleet…
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In about a decade of flying various transport category airplanes in the real world, the number of times I’ve seen glowing brakes is exactly zero, even after some pretty heavy brake use into short fields.
Realistically, the only times the brakes would be hot enough to glow would be after a worst case (MTOW, hot day, high altitude airport) rejected takeoff, and as a previous poster said, at that point, you’re dealing with flat tires from the fuse plugs and probably various fires from oil and grease buildup around the tires.
“Brake damage” also isn’t really a thing on airplanes from the pilots’ perspective, since modern carbon brakes wear by just showing progressively higher brake temperatures after landing as they wear, and once the brake wear hits a specific point (which is tracked by wear pins attached to the brakes), they’re replaced with new ones.
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In emergency brake situations the brakes of awesome eighties Jumbos glow
If you want to see the real thing, have a look…
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Lovely! This is how a good brake should look like when I land when being too lazy to grab the keyboard to press F2 for the thrust reverse… because even in 2023 there seem to be not one single joystick with throttle offering thrust reverse function on the throttle quadrant 
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On my X52, I have one of the throttle’s buttons set to toggle reverse throttle. When activated, pushing the throttle forward moves the sim’s animated throttle into the reverse range and gets me slowed down in a hurry. It’s not completely realistic, but it’s a decent work-around.
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i do something similar with speed brakes on my VKB Gladiator since i have a standalone throttle too (HOTAS). I reversed the axis so when it works “more realistically” in the sense if i pull down on the throttle mounted to the base of the joystick, it’ll deploy speed brakes.
Aw awesome thank you for upping this ancient thread - I have completely forgotten about these awesome glowing brakes P3D has.
I will submit this idea to the Fenix team this weekend
And it is still sad that almost no throttle quadrants have real thrust reversers. But the Gladiator is good, very smooth and expensive feeling.
For the speed brakes I always use a HOTAS button, and in the Airbus they come out on their own while landing.
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Eek!! If this thread is “ancient”, what does that make me?!?! 
Don´t worry a thread is ancient if it´s one week old with no reply
And I still want glowing brake disks for harsh max autobrake landings…
