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Real Pilots, need your suggestions

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Flying always with 747 FSX with or without FSPX.

Whatever I try, belly landing (no gears) seems to be impossible.

Every time I try it, full flaps just above stall speed, slowly descent, tail first, then engines and then:

sinking into the ground, and crash, same on concrete, grass or water.

Vertical speed always still above the tricky 200 ft/min and crash again :(

 

When you have some time left I'm happy to learn. Maybe some MP session within fsx sharing aircraft?

 

tia

 

 

Are you joking? Real pilots don't do 'belly landing' in a 747, why would you practice 'belly landing', this is not a crash simulator this is a flight simulator.

Michael J.

When making a belly landing try to have your rate of decent at almost zero but belly landings don't work in FSX as its crash detection sucks

ATP MEL,CFI,CFII,MEI. Type Ratings B-737, ERJ-190,ERJ-170

 

....you know you have landed gear up when it takes full power to taxi to the ramp....

 

FSX is a great platform to practice emergency procedures.  I would recommend practicing first with something smaller like the Real Air Duke.  Turn off crash detection anyway, as David says it sucks, better to just use Real Air, A2A...etc great damage modelling.

 

Cheers

TJ

"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams
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Tejon 'TJ' Stanley

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@z06z33 & pilottj tnx for your suggestions. I'm quite able to handle a lot of emergency procedures,  it's just

the landing when gears are damaged and wont extract, still practising, TIA

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Did some (more) research. The problem with the unrealistic FSX belly landings can be
solved by adjusting the aircraft.cfg file.
To avoid sinking into the ground (or water) just add some extra (crash/float)) lines in
the contact points section.
The only problem is to determine the exact points ;)
Working on it.

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