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The original question stated that the 'mouse was pitching down just before touchdown enough to slam the landing down.If the autopilot axes are disengaged, I'd be looking to see if something is happening with winds.Are the ground spoilers automatically deploying properly after touchdown?RegardsBob ScottColonel, USAF (ret)ATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VColorado Springs, CO

The original question stated that the 'mouse was pitching down just before touchdown enough to slam the landing down.

Hahaha, you wrote it better than me :(

If the autopilot axes are disengaged, I'd be looking to see if something is happening with winds.Are the ground spoilers automatically deploying properly after touchdown?

I always fly with real weather (generated via Active Sky). However, just for discarding winds as the problem, I tried with no weather info at all. Looks like the wind was the problem, because finally I could manage to make a soft landing. I'll try another flight with the 'mouse, this time with real weather. And the spoilers, yes, they do deploy properly... but that's after touchdown. An offtopic question: what's the 1-gallon fuel tank for?Best regards and Merry Christmas from Colombia,Luis Miguel

An offtopic question: what's the 1-gallon fuel tank for?Best regards and Merry Christmas from Colombia,Luis Miguel

IThe panel software checks for its presence to ID the model and to control the animations specific to Terry Gaff's model, i.e. use of wing fold animation for ground spoilers.CheersBob ScottColonel, USAF (ret)ATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VColorado Springs, CO

The original question stated that the 'mouse was pitching down just before touchdown enough to slam the landing down.If the autopilot axes are disengaged, I'd be looking to see if something is happening with winds.Are the ground spoilers automatically deploying properly after touchdown?RegardsBob ScottColonel, USAF (ret)ATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VColorado Springs, CO

Hi Bob,First off, nice job with V 1.26. The mouse is one of my favorite planes for MSFS 9. Nice improvements with the guages and handling. I would still like to use my flap lever on the Go Flight TQ-6 :( I am having problems with the nose pitching down hard upon touch-down. In fact, it crashes the aircraft. Nothing I try seems to prevent it. I have played with the WIND tab in FSIUPC in an attempt to eliminate the winds on the ground and around the airplane. My approaches are at flaps 30, on Vref+5 and stable until touchdown. I don't get a chance to fly the nose to the runway. It just slams down hard right after main wheel touch. The spoilers are not armed, so there's no deployment of the spoilers that could be causing.It really is the only item that makes flying the mouse less than fun. I pretty much have to make sure that my landing is the last thing I want to do for the evening with the mouse or MSFS.I don't remember having this behavior before with V1.24 and I can't remember if it happend with V1.25. I'm running Windows 7 and have been running HiFi Active Sky Advance and Active Sky Evolution weather enhancement. Any thoughts as to what might be happening?Thanks again for your help and for the Tin Mouse! I can't to see what comes next!Best regards,Rich BollWichita, KS

Rich; Are you using a hardware axis for brakes? Sounds like maybe you're landing on locked brakes, perhaps due to a noisy pot. If so, maybe "exercise" the brake pot back-forth to get it to calm down, or set a higher threshold for zero in FSUIPC. You can watch the brake application by setting FSUIPC's logging to watch offset 0BCA and selecting U16 in the data type drop-down box, and check the ADVDISPLAY box to show the value in real-time in a text box in FS. It should be zero before touchdown.CheersBob ScottColonel, USAF (ret)ATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VColorado Springs, CO

Rich; Are you using a hardware axis for brakes? Sounds like maybe you're landing on locked brakes, perhaps due to a noisy pot. If so, maybe "exercise" the brake pot back-forth to get it to calm down, or set a higher threshold for zero in FSUIPC. You can watch the brake application by setting FSUIPC's logging to watch offset 0BCA and selecting U16 in the data type drop-down box, and check the ADVDISPLAY box to show the value in real-time in a text box in FS. It should be zero before touchdown.CheersBob ScottColonel, USAF (ret)ATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VColorado Springs, CO

Thanks Bob,I will check this out later today and report back. I use a set of Flight Link rudders with toe brakes, so this might be a problem. I have the auto brakes set prior to landing per the checklist.Thanks,Rich

Rich; Are you using a hardware axis for brakes? Sounds like maybe you're landing on locked brakes, perhaps due to a noisy pot. If so, maybe "exercise" the brake pot back-forth to get it to calm down, or set a higher threshold for zero in FSUIPC. You can watch the brake application by setting FSUIPC's logging to watch offset 0BCA and selecting U16 in the data type drop-down box, and check the ADVDISPLAY box to show the value in real-time in a text box in FS. It should be zero before touchdown.CheersBob ScottColonel, USAF (ret)ATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VColorado Springs, CO

Hi Bob,I finally had the chance to experiment with this issue of nose pitching. I noticed that when HiFi's Active Weather program (multiple versions) was not running, there was no uncontrolled pitch down on landing.I couldn't find anything with the brakes being applied on touchdown. I don't think that was the problem. I'll experiment more with the weather program, both the MSFS and HiFi Active Weather to see if I can find something more definitive.Thanks again!Rich