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Offline Widewing

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« Reply #15 on: September 28, 2004, 04:10:46 PM »
Wow, some guys are using only minimal flaps!!??

Gentlemen, the easiest landing is usually the slowest landing. Big bounces, ground loops and other nasty ditties result from being too hot over the numbers (runway numbers). Slow down! Kill your airspeed BEFORE you get onto the downwind leg (theoretical in AH2 as we have no wind). Use your rudder to side-slip and let the increased drag decelerate your fighter. Start getting those flaps down as soon as you get below minimum deployment speed. Get them ALL THE WAY DOWN. Lower your gear as you go below minimum deployment speed. Don't make your final approach too low (if you can't see the runway over your nose, you're too low). Don't make your approach too high (if your airspeed is going up despite power to idle, full flaps and gear down, you're too high).

Remember to flair the aircraft, holding the nose slightly high. Let the plane settle onto the runway. Just about the time the wheels touch, your stall warning should start to squeel. Flair too high and you'll drop onto the runway like a sack of rocks. Flair too low and you'll bound up off the runway like a kangaroo. Go to the TA and practice. Practice landing fighters with the most difficult low speed handling characteristics. Planes like the Typhoon, the 190A-8 and even the Yaks are good planes to hone your skills in (yes gents, the Yaks suffer terrible tip stall at low speeds, making them the only fighters that require relatively high touch-down speeds).

My regards,

Widewing
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« Reply #16 on: September 28, 2004, 05:44:24 PM »
Ok the tip. Put flaps down. Slowly edge off at the run way..Then.!!!!!Pftt who lands. I ram the sucker in the ground :p   Land my kill and its done. Simple as that..

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« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2004, 06:41:49 PM »
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I've been flying with the Radish king for years, and all the landing advice in the world wont help him. For the advice to have any effect,  believe you need to get away from bad guys and back to base.  bumba when was the last time you got within 10k of returning home. usually he is pouring cocktails in the tower as we reappear in the tower.:rolleyes:

And bumba that plane looks alot like yours and is that a labatts blue I see in the winshield


Jeeez, little do you know Doobs, it has been the radishes, and the gas there of produced, which has allowed me to land that fixed tri gear at a mere 55 knts. 2 meters after threshold consistantly. I would probably guess that the weak link in this failed landing attempt, was probably due to a bad batch of radishes.
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« Reply #18 on: September 28, 2004, 07:28:15 PM »
lol:rofl
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« Reply #19 on: September 28, 2004, 07:28:18 PM »
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Practice landing fighters with the most difficult low speed handling characteristics. Planes like the Typhoon, the 190A-8 and even the Yaks are good planes to hone your skills in (yes gents, the Yaks suffer terrible tip stall at low speeds, making them the only fighters that require relatively high touch-down speeds).

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« Reply #20 on: September 28, 2004, 10:13:26 PM »
bumba after closer review,  When  did u put the upper rear gun turret
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Offline TexMurphy

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« Reply #21 on: September 29, 2004, 03:43:50 AM »
With the Yak I sometimes find it necessary to apply extra throttle just before touchdown. When I do it its more a feel thing. But in general when I feel that Im loosing alt to fast and feel that Im gonna smack down hard (going low speed with very little lift left) I just increase the throttle as Im about to touch down. This gives me a boost of lift just before the touch down and I land it smoothly.

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« Reply #22 on: September 30, 2004, 03:40:48 AM »
Fullstall 3point landing is the way you land all taildragger aircraft
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Offline slimm50

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« Reply #23 on: September 30, 2004, 11:26:58 AM »
Are the flight models anything like Il2FB_AEP? In there, I always rip the wheels off because I'm coming in too hard or too fast. In the tail-draggers it's easy to flip over if you stand on the brakes while going too fast. Yeah, 150 is pretty hot to land most of the prop planes in either sim.

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« Reply #24 on: September 30, 2004, 12:55:06 PM »
The worst is to glide in an outta-gas yak.  That thing feels like it falls faster than it flies.