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The rudder trim (like any trim) is aimed at having the aircraft fly straight and leveled with no action (commands can be loosened) despite intrinsic mechanical and aerodynamic asymmetry. -...

Does a slope exist in the FG Terrain to go from land to water and vice versa? I doubt it. IRL, trying this on a step breaks certainly... Like raising...

In FG, I think that the boundary between ground and water is just a line at the surface. Nothing exists below, thus my guess about the non-existence of a slope...

Worse: neither it works with the install/flightgear/fgdata version.

If I press the "G" key, `controls/gear/gear-down` (=true) briefly toggles, but it immediately comes back to true. If I press Ctrl+Click on `controls/gear/gear-down-command`, everything works, the gears retract and extend....

Hi, @wlbragg On the J3Cub amphibious, the G key (g or G) does nothing either. The gear lever (mouse click) works.

From [Keyboard bindings](https://wiki.flightgear.org/Keyboard_shortcuts), G | Gear up _(that is: g)_ ⇧ Shift+G | Gear down _(that is: G)_ _______________________ B | Apply all brakes ⇧ Shift+B | Toggle parking brake(s)

@dany93 wrote > If I press the "G" key, controls/gear/gear-down (=true) briefly toggles, but it immediately comes back to true. It seems that the lever position overwrites the G /...

@wlbragg Maybe you could use `controls.gearToggle()` ? (see fgdata/nasal/controls.nas, line 356). _(not sure, I'm too close from my limits in nasal)_

Yes, I had seen that (I don't remember how and when). As the aircraft had serious issues in Nov. 2015 (did not open, engine did not start), I wished to...