Updated flight model

[CoolP]

Well, to put the speeds in perspective. The lower end of the white arc shows the stall speed for a landing config, at max weight and with the power off. If you fly the approaches at 1.3-1.5 times that speed, you should be safe, the deck angle should allow to see something and you will also have some power on unless you are descending too fast and gain speed from just dropping.

 

Bernt Stolle so far aimed for precise FDEs, so the docs for the F33 may now give usable values. The end of the white arc range is at 52kts for the mentioned conditions. So that's the stall speed. You might want to aim at something around 68 (x1.3) to 78kts (x1.5) and just pull back the power for touching down with a slight increase in pitch. Well, that's the theory.

 

From the (sim) realism, I can only tell that coming in at the 70kts mark (thick pointer that is) worked fine with the mentioned method. I didn't need to increase pitch a lot and, with pulling the power back, the plane settled nicely. Accufeel adds those touchdown sounds which is great by the way.

 

I guess you have a point with the crosswind altering things a bit. But I would say that you may pull back too much for flaring. Really, just guessing. This would explain the feeling of running out of control surface travel with the lower speeds and also the bumpy plane with the higher speeds you had before.

[Tomaz Drnovsek]

Thanks for the advice. It helped! I guess I was coming in too fast and maybe flared too much. Now my landings are smooth again :good: I'm using REX Latitude so I get detailed view of my flights. Last few landings were scored nice.

I agree, Accufeel is great! It adds a lot to immersion. Recently I also bought Synchrosoft F33a soundset (I was - well, still am - on the mission to pimp my Bonanza) but after a few flights I'm not convinced it's better than default from Carenado. Well, content for some other forum topic.