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Most of my landings are between 80 and 180 fpm. I'm using FsPassengers to see the numbers. My best landing in an airliners was in PA 320 V3, -52fpm.

Yesterday I was flying Bn-2 ISlander in Swiss, some short 30 minute passenger leg, and landed in St. Gallen at -26fpm, I barely felt it, amazing feeling.

The cream de la cream of flying is when you greased the landing after a perfect flight. I WILL NOT compare it to making a love to the beautiful woman.  :ph34r:

 

My last day as captain on the Saab 340 before I transitioned to the Q400... Back in 2008. 

You will never fill this one:

 

You will never fill this one:

 

 

 

Yep, saw that one before. I love that "did we land already?" landings.   But honestly the smoothest RL landing I've seen. -5 fpm? 

My smoothest landing with PMDGs 737-800 London Heathrow with -8 fpm. 

A couple of vidz with the best FS bogie animations ever (modelled by POSKy of course) ...starting from very very short finals.

 

777-200

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akToMOeBQCU&t=0m41s

 

 

747-300

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgO7U5R5dGA&t=7m41s

 

 

 

 

My smoothest landing with PMDGs 737-800 London Heathrow with -8 fpm. 

 

It was so smooth that FSX would crash with an OOM message. 

A couple of vidz with the best FS bogie animations ever (modelled by POSKy of course) ...starting from very very short finals.

 

777-200

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akToMOeBQCU&t=0m41s

 

 

747-300

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgO7U5R5dGA&t=7m41s

 

Oh my, you got me with my biggest fetish in FSX - gear compression! Did you edit some contact points and stuff to achieve this or it is built in POSKY models? I made a thread regarding that realistic gear compression animation, and ho it is important for me to be included with the model. When I watch some fsrecorder replays with the default 737, it's like watching the landing of a brick, awful. And after all, people looked at me reading that thread thinking I'm weird or something, I'm picky and stuff like that.   Nope, I'm not weird or picky, I just enjoy watching replays of landings, and realistic gear compression is a huge huuuge bonus.

 

This is one of my test videos, with AXE:

 

http://youtu.be/NsazTS6H270 

You should probably consider that touch down rate is not the main factor for a "good" landing. A too soft touch-down can even be hazardous (especially on a wet runway).

You should probably consider that touch down rate is not the main factor for a "good" landing. A too soft touch-down can even be hazardous (especially on a wet runway).

 

Of course. Touch down rate is not important if you land half a mile after a threshold.

Also didn't thought of a wet runway and soft landings, lot of aquaplaning could be a problem with greased landings.

This is one of my test videos, with AXE:

 

Difficult to see what is happening in your video because of the way you shot it…..but judging from the touchdown the main gear did compress nicely but could have sprung back a bit IMHO.

 

Gear suspension is a difficult thing to get right in FS but can be made perfect if one is willing to spend the time.

 

Gear suspension AND gear animation is something different again, a single bogie aircraft (like your AXE) is relatively easy.

 

To watch multiple bogie animation can be a heavenly sight (e.g. 777, TU-154, 747, A330 etc etc) 

 

So few developers get this right. I spent hours and hours tweaking Hiroshi's gear animation XML code (note I did not use POSKY air files on either aircraft so my tweaks would not work with the def air files)

 

Edit: if you watch my 777 video carefully you will also notice that there is a puff of smoke when the first tyre of the triple bogie kisses the tarmac, then there is another puff of smoke when the other two tyres touch also……where there is a will there is always a way.

 

Edit2: Waaaay way back POsky was making a new A330… I was really looking forward to the bogie animation. I believe the project is now with Project Airbus... some projects really do take years and years.

For a proper out-of-the-box gear strut compression i would recommend X-Plane.

 

Anyway, i improved a lot in landing my 757. Here's a video of my last flight's touchdown:

(here the strut compression isn't very obvious as the main landing gear "paralizes" itself during replays, due to custom datarefs.. If someone knows an alternate replaying plugin for X-Plane, please let me know.

 

 

 

And here's a smooth landing in FSX i made some days ago:

 

Though, i must admit, those are probably exceptions, as lately (especially in Europe), the weather doesn't permit those kind of landings and i shoot for a firm and on-time touchdowns.

Hmmm….. looks like FS9.x is the best so far. 

My last day as captain on the Saab 340 before I transitioned to the Q400... Back in 2008. 

Funny you say that.  One of my better ones was on the Saab.  Where the Flight Idle stop "Blue Light Special" seems to come on in error.

NGX- 6fpm

 

777- 120fpm

 

747- 300fpm

 

airbus x- 19fpm