Hi all. Before I go to the Bugtracker with this, I need to discuss the matter here.
There are 12 Ju 88 subvariants in the Dover series and 1 Ju 88 subvariant only in the Great Battles series:
In the Dover series:
Ju 88 A-1
Ju 88 A-5
Ju 88 A-5 Late
Ju 88 A-5/trop
Ju 88 A-5/trop Late
Ju 88 C-1
Ju 88 C-2
Ju 88 C-2/trop
Ju 88 C-4
Ju 88 C-4 Late
Ju 88 C-4/trop
Ju 88 C-4/trop Late
In the Great Battles series:
Ju 88 A-4
Ju 88 C-6a (currently under development)
In our Dover series, if one wants to lock/unlock the tail wheel, not only the control binding is available but, in addition, a pedal with the German inscription "Ruder-Bremse" is animated when locking or releasing the tail wheel. This works fine with all 12 subvariants in the game, please see the following screenshot:
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Please focus for a minute on that German term, "Ruder-Bremse". I don't know German so I don't really know if this German "Ruder-Bremse" translates properly into English as "tail wheel lock". Using Google Translate this gives "ruder brake". You guys in Team Fusion Simulations did that, you bound this pedal to the tail wheel locking & releasing. So what it is finally? Did you do that on a historical basis with the help of the apropriate documentation?
In the Great Battles series, the Ju 88 A-4 is the only Ju 88 that is at the player's disposal, a subvariant we do not have in the Dover series. This Great Battles Ju 88 A-4 doesn't react when you use the corresponding mapped key: impossible to lock nor release the tail wheel (I guess it is permanently released by default). Nevertheless the pedal is there, although it doesn't display the term "Ruder-Bremse" :
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In our Dover simulator, the pedal at this location in the cockpit is used for locking/releasing the tail wheel... is this historically correct in the Dover series ? Or, on the contrary, is the Great Battles series correct because, precisely, it doesn't present any lock for the Ju 88 tail wheel?
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