Landing fighters elegantly?

[RTR]

LOL Roscoroo, I'll bet you are the maintenance chiefs Faaaavorite driver!



RTR

[straffo]

Originally posted by TexMurphy
*comes in perfectly alligned for a landing*

*pulls up gear*

*belly slides it*

*only breaks prop*

*opens the cannopy*

Where is my beer?

Is that styleish enough for you?

7/10
next time try to bounce so you can break wings and tail and I'll give you a 10/10

[Clifra Jones]

Originally posted by RTR
Landing a hog, isn't much different to landing any of the other tail draggers we have here.

I posted a blurb on landing the hog in the thread a couple of posts down titled "Takeoff model".

have a read, and hope it helps

Cheers,
RTR

Yup, read it. Great advice.

[Keiler]

Thanks a lot people,

when I condense it, it boils down to:

-100 IAS and below
-riding the stall
-touch down on all 3 wheel at once.
-practise
-more practise

Right?

[pellik]

You can cheat in a lot of planes and start retracting a notch or two of flaps toward the end of your flare. Plants that sucker right down.

Remember that how slow you get isn't necessarily as important as controlling your desent rate. Flaring all the way until a stall drops you from flight onto the runway will bounce you back up. You need to flare with your back wheel a little lower then your front holding level so that you can lower your front wheels while you create a controlled decent rate for that perfect three point landing. It works like that in this game, anyway.

[Keiler]

Ok I got better thanks to all your help and suggestions

Flaps 3 notches, reeeaaally slow, and nose up does the trick. Occasional bumb, but marginal.
And yeah, wrong trim screws up a LOT, be it taking off or landing.


Matt

[straffo]

use the hand brake

[Keiler]

LMAO!!!!!!!
Thats nearly as good as Ace Ventura's parking skillz

[DREDIOCK]

in planes that seem to have superballs for tires like the 190s.

If you can otherwise make a decent landing cept for the  bounce
Try applying the breaks as your touching down.
Trust me it works

[mtnman]

One trick I've found useful when landing the F4U's, is to avoid using the brakes at all until the landing roll is shown to be under control.
Then I use brakes to stop, but do also use them to help stear as well.
Because I used to have trouble keeping the nose straight during the roll, I felt like if I slammed the brakes on full as soon as I touched down that it would shorten the roll and I would have less chance of doing that nasty F4U ground loop. I eventually found the opposite to be true.
'Course, when landing while missing one wingtip, I do usually end up deviating from my normal landing routine a bit, hehe. Actually, RTB'ing and landing with both wingtips missing is actually much easier than with one missing.
I also find it helps to  touch on all 3 wheels JUST as you stall, and keep the stick back to lock the tail-wheel.

[TequilaChaser]

always found alternate braking  ( C & V  keys ) back and forth slow me down alot faster than hitting both brakes at once and also keeps me in a straight roll better as well. hardly ever/never use the pull stick back to lock tailwheel, don't like the crutch, ya know

but different strokes for different folks......

[Alky]

Originally posted by TexMurphy
*comes in perfectly alligned for a landing*

*pulls up gear*

*belly slides it*

*only breaks prop*

*opens the cannopy*

Where is my beer?

Is that styleish enough for you?

That's the way I do it, plane stops real quick. You can still use the rudder to steer if needed
While you're messing with all the 3 point landing & tail-wheel stuff some moron will probably vulch you for your realism efforts

[humble]

one really strange "training aid" is to come in wheels up and break the prop without actually bellying the plane in...then to fly it down the runway using flaps and trim to keep it airborne as long as possible....basically your in the transition layer and simply can flare the nose up at the very edge of the envelope...once you get the "feel" you can come in "bounceless" in anything...not to mention very short roll outs....

of course usually I just slam em on down at 200 or so (on those rare occasions I ever get to RTB:)

[AmRaaM]

get on the ground fast and stop=dump the flaps when landing 190 as you  almost touch down  this will prevent the bouncing and add weight to the a/c since it will no longer  be in flying configuration....to prevent "porpoising" on the runway also. If your dump flaps and dont feel/see the a/c drop with each tick of flap retracting you are landing too fast for this game.

Or you are not putting the a/c into a neutral attitude on touch down because of pressure on the stick, stick trim or stick needs calibrating.  try letting go of the stick as you touch down. this works well if landing at highspeed.

Or you are stalling the a/c too high in the air or aoa  is too high for your speed and rate of descent.

[killnu]

whats this talk of puttin gear down?

i get about 190 ias, line up on runway and land her on the belly.  slides to a stop nice and quick.