Darkreach gear tilt.

[wintry yoke]

it would be nice having a butter machine in nuclear option it’s just the physics of the gear.
the image is a clear example

i think it would be a nice quality of life

[vocal jetty]

Highly highly needed

[sharp tide]

PLEASEEEE the DR is weird to land imho and this would help a lot methinks

[wintry yoke]

Sadly the tarantula won’t have it, as it has gear configuration like a C-130 Hercules.

[next reef]

Not that it needed it much, considering it's stall (landing) speed of 0 km/h

[wintry yoke]

Hmmmm.. that’s true
but i would like an C-17 type of gear not exactly gear tilt but somewhat a satisfying landing.

[wintry yoke]

wouldn’t this make the gear of the DR weak?

now that I think about it

[swift halo]

No?

[vocal jetty]

No. The B2 Spirit has tilting gear for takeoff and landing for example

[swift halo]

The heaviest of airliners have it and do just fine

[wintry yoke]

oh fr i forgot bout the A330

[swift halo]

And a380, and b747, etc.

[wintry yoke]

Ye

[wintry yoke]

Yes, even more satisfying

[wintry yoke]

What I mean is that in low landings it would be easier for the gear to break

[smoky otter]

Potentially yea

Also, tilted landing gear doesn't help with softer landings. The reason airliner and such have tilted gear is so that the gear takes up less space in the fuselage, which means larger fuel tanks.

Further proof it doesn't help with softness is the 767. It's landing gear tilts forward, meaning the frontal wheels of the main gear touch before the rear. Which absolutely would not help with softness. And yet 767s will still have super smooth landings. It all depends on the pilot.

[wintry yoke]

it’s not for smoothness it’s for satisfaction and a somewhat good quality of life

and idk it looks better and would suit good on a heavy bomber

[wintry yoke]

Wouldn’t it be logical for a heavy futuristic bomber to have a lot of fuel?, normally nobody never uses that much of fuel but it’s a military plane not a commercial one and would do something in the new map that’s coming.

[wintry yoke]

Mitch pls do this 🗣️🗣️

[turbid mortar]

Eli5 what is this and why?

[glossy otter]

Landing gear in-game does not have a tilting mechanism whereas IRL gear on large aircraft tend to mechanically posture themselves so that the rearmost wheel contacts first.

[wintry yoke]

[finite palm]

Just to remind, as a X-plane pilot, that not all real life large aircraft have gear tilt, especially not as pronounced as A330.
The gear tilt is a hydraulic device that would rotate the truck of a multi-axle landing gear to a certain degree once weight on wheel is lifted. This is to ensure the gear is at the correct angle when it's retracted into the wheel well.
I'm not sure how is DR's wheel well going but I think it already does have the right orientation when retracted.

[finite palm]

Nope that's not it. Read above for the actual reason of non-horizontal landing gear orientation when gear down and no WOW, please.
for example look at this picture of the 767.
you can see that even with the raised nose the front wheel would touchdown before the rear one, and that's fine. Not all multi-axle landing gears require the rear wheel to touchdown first.

[wintry yoke]

oh yea that’s true but I’m talking about especially A-330/B-2

[glossy otter]

I was 110% sure of my assumption! Good explanation.

[wintry yoke]

actually forgot completely bout this suggestion lol