Hi everyone, 

i am here to ask a strange question, In real life i am not a real pilot for work i only own a CPL and the biggest plane i piloted is a PA31 mostly i pilot a Pa38 or 28 so another world from the 777. My point is this for a good landing u need a perfect approach so that is what i do and till 5 nm to land all is perfect then i disengage Autopilot and manual pilot following the glide and of course the LOC. 

 

The main problem is this one when i hear the 40 feet i reduce power to idle start to level the plane waiting to loose speed and start to flare the plane to have a smooth touch down the result is that my landing Vs is usually around -130 -110-90-125 so i think it is pretty good. 

 

Here is my problem when i level off the plane at 40 and reduce power to idle the plane act like a Pa28. The huge wings still generate lots oflift and speed reduction is very slow so that the plane start to loose energy slowly and the plane touch down over the touch down zone. How do u usually land the plane in a way that the plane touch down in the right spot? To touch down in touch down zone i need to arrive a bit under the glide around 2 nm from runway so that the 40 call out is a bit before the touch down zone. But i dont know if it is correct actually i know it is not. So my question is How do u manage the landing in the last 5 Nm?

Follow the ILS, just flare less at 40ft. You're not supposed to hold off like you would in a light aircraft.

 

Some big changes are being made to the fly by wire system also, which may change how it handles in the flare.

Flaring at about 15-10 is more effective for me. About 7-5 in the NGX suits me the best.

 

 

i reduce power to idle

 

Don't do that, let the Auto Throttle handle that, and also the T7 requires a very minimal flare, maybe 2-3 degrees at max. I start to pitch up at about 10ft, works pretty great every time. One way to learn is to perform an autoland and watch and imitate how the airplane handles itself. 

Thanks Guys ! So i try a land without handling the throttle manually. 

To be honest, don't get too comfortable, given that there are fly-by-wire changes in store for SP1, all could change.

 

Landing has never felt right to me, not that I'm a 777 pilot in real life. Floats way too easy.

 

T7 is normally flown with A/T on all the time at many airlines, but PMDG have added...

 

- Added a new option that allows the physical throttle to override the A/T during the flare and landing sequence.

 

All will be much better post SP1 me thinks.