needs autopilot

any plans to add autopilot?

the landing gear shuts itself as soon as it spawns for me

does not fly, throttle isn't slaved to a key so you cant get it off the ground

Cant find light switch

-Side doors sometimes getting stuck: I have no idea why this is, I inspected the logic mutliple times, it sometimes behaves just right and sometimes not. I tried a few alternate combionations with toggles and pulses to no avail.
-Fuel efficiency: this is inherent to tilt rotor design. I'm not sure how the propeller's thrust and efficiency are modelled, but the props have to be somewhat small compared to the aircraft size (to be able to rotate around the wing without hitting the fuselage or the ground), meaning needing more blades or RPS to achieve the same lift which ultimately consumes more fuel.

Thank you all for your nice comments and feedback, I'll see which fixes I can implement.
Some things I can address already:
-I'm not sure adding a gyro will help? I prefer to rely on my own PID, the few times I used a gyro in helis did not pan out too well.
-You can move out of the hanger relatively easily just by going itno standard flight mode, releasing the landing gear handbrake, and giving 2 bars of throttle (thereabouts) to taxi at a slow pace.
-Unfortunately the landing gear are bit vulnerable to collapse, this is a problem I have with all planes unless they have fixed trains. Typical Stormworksn't. Be sure to run the Physics in High to reduce that risk. If that doesn't work, just rebuild the gear to be fixed, retracting them is mostly to imitate reality, but doesn't have a significant effect.

I love it, it's a really good craft, quite easy to learn how to fly this thing BUT:
1. Rear chasiss tend to "bend" backwards after landing and during taxi (I just swapped it with 5 blocks, the wheels and connected the Handbrake of all three wheels directly to the button of the handbrake)
2. Side doors sometimes won't close when sitting on controlling harness and pressing Space. Even buttons on the walls won't close it but eventually they close. What's the problem? I have no idea, but my suggestion it's the way how the game works (somehow)
3. Maaaaaaan this thing is HUNGRY for jet fuel, really really hungry

You made the home page! Well deserved!

@DeadPoolX its probably because it is not bound to a key on your keyboard yet. only hotkeys 1 through 6 are bound by default

a few suggestions:

1. add an actual button for landing gear since regular input setups can only do 1-6 on boolean
2. disable the starter once the engines are running (Jet engines start combustion at 0.5 RPS, after which the starter can be disabled)
3. Jet engines aren't effected by temperature, it's just an arbitrary number so you don't need to shut them off if the temperature is too high
4. add a gyro (mainly to make it more stable)
5. add a way to safely move it out of the hanger


other than that, a good aircraft

I can't seem to retract the landing gear. I press "eight" on the keyboard (I've tried both the number keys at the top of the KB and the keypad to the right) and nothing happens.