The nose drops in every other simulated plane that I fly (small or large) when I reduce power.

It will also depend where your centre of gravity is.

The nose drops in every other simulated plane that I fly (small or large) when I reduce power.

 

In very basic terms, when you reduce power the nose (may) drop, when you reduce speed the aircraft will naturally pitch up, hence why you increase angle of attack to maintain level flight in low speed.

 

Here's a basic example -

 

1. you are in cruise in your 737 (flying normal cruise speed and correctly trimmed) reduce power and the nose will drop, the aircraft will descend and try to maintain the trimmed speed.

 

2. Again you are in cruise but flying very slow near the low speed buffet, the slower you get the more the aircraft pitches up and starts to descend if you remain hands free, reduce power and the speed decays further, increasing descent rate and increasing the nose up pitch (angle of attack) until you eventually enter a stall.

 

As far as can remember even the default 737 models this behaviour.

 

Regards

 

 

 

 

I have the CS 777 and the 727 and the L-1011. Both the 727 and 1011 are excellent.

 

The 777 stinks. I can't believe they have 3 versions so far that have ended up as this piece of junk.

 

VNAV is poorly constucted and autothrottle is really bad. I mean, you have to click on the SPD button three or more times before it activates and then only if you haul the throttle handles back to idle first. The airplane stalls in the slow speed regime because the throttles have such poor response time. VNAv will climb the aircraft at over 6,000 FPM if left to its own devices.

 

I guess it is a report on how dependant success of the airplane is on how well the autopilot performs but I wish I could get my money back because I hate it.

 

when you reduce speed the aircraft will naturally pitch up

 

Surely that would only happen if the autopilot is active, and set to maintain a selected altitude? If an aircraft in manual mode reduces speed, the nose should drop.