Author Topic: what's your landing style? (Read 2112 times)

udet · « **on:** February 27, 2003, 12:25:29 PM »

Since I don't have a throttle, I usually cut the engine off. Of course, if I undershoot and turn the engine back on for a burst of power, the combination of low speed and torque sometimes rolls the plane and sends me to the ground, usually really fast and in a very inverted attitude. But, it does make landings very interesting and simulates the anxiety of landing a real aircraft

muckmaw · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2003, 12:32:05 PM »

Landing?

Don't know, never survived a sortie.

Soulyss · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2003, 12:50:18 PM »

I don't so much land as barely survive a meagerly controlled crash.

Rotorian · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2003, 12:52:32 PM »

LANDIN!?

Landing ya say?

Wazdat?

WldThing · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2003, 12:57:28 PM »

Belly landed for 3 months before i knew that i was suppostu be under 200 MPH for the gear to work..

Sikboy · « **Reply #5 on:** February 27, 2003, 12:58:30 PM »

I chop throttle and do a side slip on approach to bleed E, then pull the nose up to the point of stall, and keep an eye on my ROC(or in this case ROD) meter, and apply throttle to keep it the nose up while keeping the ROD down.

And I still wind up bouncing down the runway half the time lol.

-Sik

slimm50 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 27, 2003, 01:00:12 PM »

On those rare occasions I've survived all the way back to home base I'm usually balls-to-th-wall. So, what I generally do is buzz the fld at about 375-400 mph, cut engine at the end of the runway, while simultaneously haulin back on the stick. Somewhere near the top my speed has dropped to under, or near, 200 mph. That's when I dump gear and flaps. Soon I'm pointing at the ground, inverted, so I roll upright, and hope I don't pancake into the tarmack as I flare at the last instant. I've gotten pretty good at this.

There've been a few times though when I've come in shot up, smokin, or even on fire, no gas, no oil, no ammo, parts of wings and tail missing. Those times I'm very content to belly-in on the grass anywhere near a friendly base.

Sox62 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 27, 2003, 01:01:11 PM »

What's this landing I keep hearing about?

vorticon · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2003, 01:08:38 PM »

get about 5 feet off the ground with full flaps ang gear then pull hard up...quickly going back horizontal i fall...break the gear but if i do it right it still works

MrLars · « **Reply #9 on:** February 27, 2003, 01:17:20 PM »

When we were first told we'd get carriers to use I started practicing carrier landings at airfields, it kinda stuck.

udet · « **Reply #10 on:** February 27, 2003, 01:17:35 PM »

ohh I forgot to mention the steep turns I make on final in order to bleed off airspeed-I think they work better than side-slipping.

CMC Airboss · « **Reply #11 on:** February 27, 2003, 01:28:35 PM »

Overhead pattern at 800', 300 mph. Chop throttle to idle at the break. 1 notch of flaps on the downwind. Lower gear at 175. 1 more notch of flaps. 180° turn to final once parallel to the threshold. Full flaps once on centerline and glide to a full stall (soft) landing. Easy! =)

MiG

fffreeze220 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 27, 2003, 01:41:22 PM »

How can people play without a throttle ??????

mars01 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 27, 2003, 01:42:37 PM »

All,

I saw a show on Discovery Wings, an old fighter pilot was talking about just this.

He said each pilot needed to land in under a minute. This way if they had 50 planes out they could have all planes down in 50 mins or less. He said the fastest way to land was...

Full speed flyby past the tower, when he reached the opposite end of the runway he would throttle back to idle and pull a wingover; put the plane in a steep climb, when the airspeed was low enough he would dump his gear and flaps and kick the rudder, drop the nose pull back for the runway.

After seeing this I had to try it. What a rush when done well. Once I successfully execute the wingover, I should be descending towards a spot on the end of the runway at or below 200 knots. I like to keep about 150 knots as I cross the end of the runway, when I am just about to crash into the runway point I am descending to I bring the nose up bleed off about 50 knots to 100 knots, when I start to hear the stall horn, if I am too high I drop the nose slightly add a little power and control the decent in ground effect until I am about 10 feet off the ground and slow under 100 knots. Then I bury the stick back in my chest and hold it there executing a perfect 3-point landing, if I’m down and on the tail I get on brakes.

This last part, The "Flare", is the only way I can land a Corsair with out doing a wing over due to the Gyroscopic Precession. Stall it right over the runway and stick a perfect three pointer and get the tail on the ground. If you are too high when you try to stick the 3 pointer you will bounce like a rubber ball so be prepared to mush it in.

I have passed guys on short final as I start my high-speed pass down the runway and have been on the ground and stopped just as they touch down. It reduces your vulnerability and amount of time being low and slow.

Good Luck!!! Great Flying!!!

Mars

Dead Man Flying · « **Reply #14 on:** February 27, 2003, 01:43:02 PM »

Usually nose down at about 500mph. Gear optional.

-- Todd/Leviathn