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Q about SF8 F86

ian elliot

ian elliot

SOH-CM-2026
Inbetween finishing off scenery and sorting my installs , ive been enjoying the new F86 repaint by L'iguane. But there's always something about the model that catches me out, raising the undercarriage before 150 knots. Now i could just improve my piloting skills but i do wonder if i could cheat and disable this feature, i just find it really tight between rotating and raising the undercarriage
 
I've never tried it, but will it allow you to raise the gear handle while rolling down the runway and have the undercarriage raise as you start your climb? I
realize you are very close to that 150 knots speed as you are lifting off of the runway!
 
Hi Ian,

I believe this is due to hydraulic system limitations of the real Sabre, SF8 did represent this system very accurately back in time. (overpressure due to air flow on gear & doors overs a given airspeed I believe)

Should you bust the 150kts limit, it will fail the gear hydraulic, with a warning/failure light coming on.
If you reset manually or switch to alternate hyrdaulic, the gear door will come up.
A right click and hold for 1s on the reset switch usually fix it and allow normal gear cycle again.

See screenshot below
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Cheers
 
MrZippy said:
I've never tried it, but will it allow you to raise the gear handle while rolling down the runway and have the undercarriage raise as you start your climb? I
realize you are very close to that 150 knots speed as you are lifting off of the runway!
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I've read stories about pilots who did that in real airplanes. They were not all happy stories!
 
In the dim and very distant past the SF8 was an allowed aircraft in the sim forums 'Round The Word Race' and it took some learning by pilots to make sure they got to the destination in one piece so that they could hand off the 'baton' to the pilots on the next leg. As well as the aforementioned hydraulic issues the fuel systems could bite you in the ass too as an incorrect change from drop tanks to mains could result in a flame-out and and a fight to get a mid-air re-light going which was not always successful. I piled several birds into the ground in training before I got the sequence right! Once you had it down pat though it was a wonderful bird to fly! I may have to see if I can get it to work in P3D v4.5 for old times sake.
 
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