Merry Christmas all!
 

Hope everyone is having a good time - maybe even fitting in a sneaky flight...

 

Quick question for any of those in the know - some of my landings recently have been somewhat, firm, I would say.

 

I was wondering if it was possible to set up a save game/panel state with either the 777 or 737 (I'm better at the 737 at the moment) on short final, so I can practice my landing technique... Any suggestions how I would go about doing this? Is it just a case of doing a save game in FSX and then saving an associated panel state at that time?

 

Ideally - so I can just reload and try again.

 

Also - any nice tips on perfecting that landing (and any suggestions of programmes to record the landing fps?)

 

Cheers in advance,

All the best,

Rich

Hi Rich

Why don't you look at FSI panel?

 

 

Cheers

 

Dean

Rich. Yes all you need to do is a save flight. PMDG will auto save the panel state with the FSX save. I would recommend saving about 15-20 miles out as due to the warmup period you will have little to no control and will need a mile or 2 to recover.

FSIPanel is so cool, finals ,approaches,RNAV and much more..Tells you how good or bad 

your landing was..

get LoLa, its a Landing Training Environment..

http://planeman-fs.blogspot.mx/2012/05/lord-of-landing-v17.html

Thanks all, much appreciated.

 

Will have a quick pay with the sacred and panel states, and check out those programmes.

 

Any hints of tips for good landings? Aim points, when to flare etc?

 

Cheers,

 

Rich

 

 

Any hints of tips for good landings? Aim points, when to flare etc?

 

Not to be the typical RTFM guy, but the FCTM that's included with the plane has a bunch of tips from Boeing themselves, with diagrams.

 

Open it up, hit CTRL+F to search, and read/view away.

A good rule of thumb is to start pulling power back at 50ft AGL and then begin flare at 30ft AGL.

A good rule of thumb is to start pulling power back at 50ft AGL and then begin flare at 30ft AGL.

 

Meh, I'd suggest keeping the power in untill around 30 - 20ft. and retarding the throtles then. A good rule of thumb is to be at around 50ft over the runway treshhold. 

Hello Richard the idea posted by Elfyn Hanks here, that you save (with the ; semi-colon key)  a point in time and space about 20 miles out from the landing runway, on or near the glide slope, is a great way to practice landings.  With that saved flight method of practice,  I'll  venture to say I have made several thousand virtual landings, many chasing the ILS bugs amid the most extreme thunder storms I can dial in using the stock FSX weather options.

 

Personally I like to save my final approaches nail-bitingly close to the runway threshold, at say 7 miles out and 2,500 feet AGL, so as to pack in the flight deck action and minimize the wait time between repeat touchdowns.  My favorite saved flight has to be one that commences at 1,000 feet AGL inbound to Kai Tak Airport Hong Kong Runway 13, at the point where the fabled hillside "Checker Board" looms directly ahead in my front window, just before I floor the right rudder and roll into that brutal roller-coaster right turn that only eases up moments from the runway threshold.

 

As your landing practice count in Boeing or Airbus aircraft increases, the length of the pause between those automated altitude call-outs, especially the ones you hear during the last 100 feet before the undercarriage makes runway contact, will come to serve as an additional audio cue as to whether you are setting the aircraft down lightly enough.  

 

If the call-outs are timed a tad too close together, you can add a little throttle and/or nose-up to slow the descent, and if there is too long of a pause between those last five altitude call-outs, you might be floating a bit, and will need to throttle fully back to descend a bit faster towards touchdown.