April 22, 20197 yr Author I'm trying to remember I think it was no more than 45 degrees, whatever the stock FSX ATC vectors you for intercept. Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
April 25, 20197 yr Author Well, upon further analysis.... i.e my landing just now, :) the view out of the windshield on approach might be a little too "flat" - it's quite easy to see the runway. I have now altered the htail incidence to 0.5 to see if that makes the view more "normal" at approach speeds around 160 kt at flaps 50. I don't want the external view nor the horiz stab ANU to be excessive at cruise so I am willing to compromise a bit on landing.. Also, on tonight's approach, ATC vectored me onto a "usual" 30 degree intercept course to the localiser. I was down to around 180 knots and whatever flap setting wasn't in yellow on the pfd :) Sorry that I just "wing" these approaches, but with a lite FMC there's little else to go by. Apart from the numbers painted on the quadrant near the flap lever! Once the localiser began to move I then clicked the app/land button on the glareshield panel. Glideslope is intercepted from below quite normally, the plane just pitched down to about 1000 fpm to intercept - again no scary nosedive... I wonder Kris if you were trying to intercept the glideslope without approach mode being set? Would that not cause a nosedive due to the autopilot disconnecting altitude hold without it seeing a glideslope? Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
May 19, 20197 yr Thanks for your comments. I think i figured it out. The problem of diving in turns was the CG. In last two flights i moved „first class” payload weight back adding it to Aft cargo section (i use Topcat loadsheet to get the load for each section). The CG was shifted seriously back and i took off with around 29% TOCG. The plane was loosing some 200-300 feet in first phases of turns but recovering easily. So the problem was with too much front TOCG.
May 19, 20197 yr Author Excellent. Among other things, Sky Simulations didn't supply a freighter only aircraft.cfg, hence we have had to fudge payloads. I ignore the first class section when loading cargo. Incidentally I've purchased both TSS pack (P&W and GE) for the MD11. Most definitely an improvement. I posted elsewhere on AVSIM. Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
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