SLEW mode always retracts aircraft gear

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All aircraft retract the gear when entering slew mode. I see this has been an issue since December 2020. Could we get this looked at please. Cheers.

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And changing the simrate turns off my avionics. Until i said oops, i assigned that keypress already. My bad

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I’ve used this a lot when practicing landings, and had more than one belly landing as I forgot to raise, then lower the landing gear knob when on final. Not a huge issue, but an annoying niggle.

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Taking screenshots, you set up your aircraft and then use slew to fine tune the position. But the gear always retracts. Very frustrating.

Solution: The SLEW command should not change any aspect of the configuration. The SLEW configuration currently seems to have a predetermined configuration depending on whether the aircraft is in flight or on the ground.

This occurs whether Dev mode is on or off.

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The gear was still down after takeoff. Slew the aircraft to put it in a more scenic position and exiting Slew the gear is now up.

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There’s something I’ve been meaning to try. If there is a simvar that holds whether slew mode is on or not, you could have an external tool like Spad detect when slew has been turned off, and automatically lower the landing gear for you.

I’ve had a quick look in the SDK, and there are some:

https://docs.flightsimulator.com/html/Programming_Tools/Event_IDs/Aircraft_Flight_Control_Events.htm?rhhlterm=slew&rhsearch=slew%20mode

Possibly “SLEW_OFF” may be of use? Have a conditional that detects that briefly flipping to “1”, or whatever the active state would be, then issue a gear down action.

I wonder if you could also issue a gear down when you are in slew mode…time to experiment tonight it seems. :slight_smile: