Greetings and hello. I’ve been working on making fully functional wings with proper ailerons and flaps. Besides refining their fitment I’ve had one big problem my flaps generate no or very little lift. Now I’ve tried changing the hinge rotators angle of defection which didn’t help and I’ve tried using a gyroscope with VTOL pitch which works but makes the handling of the aircraft unnatural as it always wants to roll back to neutral. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks very much for anyone who took the time to read this.
Thanks I was thinking this as well I’ve just seen people create functional flaps without having to do this and I wasn’t sure if I was missing something @Squirrel
I suggest using wings with controls (or rigged up to rotators) that align with your flap controls (say they're both controlled by the VTOL slider input for example) then scale them down and embed them in the wing/fuselage so they're hidden and out of sight. Scaling doesn't effect the lift they generate, so when in operation, you should still see a substantial increase in lift (depending on the initial wing/control surface size).
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One thing to note is that flaps generally increase the drag of an aircraft, so you might want to hide some airbrakes away (again so they're out of sight) that operate with the flaps.
attach the wing parts to rotators, 10 degrees should be enough