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Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - Billy Bob - 10-10-2011
I must say, this would be a great program if this feature could be adjusted/disabled. I've landed @ -100 ft. per min and blown a tire and @ -500 ft.
per min and all was well. Until this gets corrected, I won't be using this program. It's a shame that I'm out the money. It would be nice if Dan listened
to his customers and responded accordingly. I tried contacting Dan about 6 months ago and have yet to get a response.
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - gbapache - 10-10-2011
William Robert, What was you airspeed on your -100 touchdown? Too fast will blow tires just as quickly as too hard. The magic number
for too hard is -500. Remember that a good craftsman never blames his tools.
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - Billy Bob - 11-10-2011
My approach speed was fine. I don't remember exactly what the number was. By the way, this isn't a tool. It's a computer program that has a flaw. I've been working in aviation for over 20 years
as a licensed A & P. I have flown many hours with pilots and have experienced many landings. Some were so bad that I wasn't sure if we landed or were shot down. No blown tires! This boils
down to poor customer support. There are pilots here with varying skills. Making this feature adjustable doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - gbapache - 11-10-2011
As you may know, there is no customer support for FSP other than this simple forum. I promise that I'm not being rude (which I am on
occasion) but I'll tell you the same thing we tell everyone that wants to disable the tire blowing penalty, learn to land better. By that I mean
just above stall speed and below -500 ft/min. It's the way Dan wrote the program and we have all learned to live with it.
P.S. Don't hold your breath waiting for a patch.
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - Billy Bob - 12-10-2011
I am not accusing you of being rude. This forum being the only customer support is rude! And what about all the other customers that are having the
same issue and requesting a change? Too bad for them? You're right, it's Dan's program and that's the way he wrote it. Perhaps some humble
advice for business longevity...listen to your customers! It's a shame, good program that could be awesome with a small tweak.
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - gbapache - 12-10-2011
You are but a grain of sand on the beach of complaints. Others before you have wailed and gnashed teeth to "fix the problem". Lo these
many years the cries of pain and anguish to mend the rindering of thier life and love and to disable tire blowing have gone unheard. Tis
true. Dan duth not be a true business model, he be but a man. Cheers.
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - whiskey-zulu - 13-10-2011
Ladies and gents; play nice.
Apache, no beer for you.
BillyBob,
The extent of customer service for FSP/FSPX are:
1) The manual that comes with the program
2) The FAQ section of this website.
3) The forums of the website.
There has been word of a patch; it's my understanding that the version for FSP is now available; what is in the patch I don't know, however. The
version for FSPX I can't say anything about as I have no information regarding it.
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - Billy Bob - 13-10-2011
Thank you for your response. Where would I find this patch, please?
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - whiskey-zulu - 13-10-2011
New version for Flight Simulator 9 can be found here: http://www.fspassengers.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=4118
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - gbapache - 13-10-2011
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - Ziele32 - 13-10-2011
As far as I know its only fix the W7 authorization problem, but dan is still cooking something propobly
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - Billy Bob - 13-10-2011
Is there anything for FSX?
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - whiskey-zulu - 14-10-2011
As of yet, there is no new update for FSX; whether there is one in the pipeline, I don't know.
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - Arthurnus - 29-10-2011
I have also experienced a blown out tire. But this happened at my second throwaway company in which I did all kinds of aerobatic stress maneouvres
after which I came down on my right gear in the 500- fpm range. Everyone survived. In all my serious attempts I never blown out tires, never. Even on
those 2 flights I got hit by severe turbulence (mostly user defined weather) hard landings, but safe landings.
Basically you can calculate your descend rate with variables such as speed and distance. And if you want a certain descent rate on your glideslope and
your on low aproach (1500feet) you just have to start the glideslope later during the aproach and if your on high aproach (2500feet) you have to start
the glideslope much sooner.
Both DME and ILS will guide your G/S later on low aproaches and sooner on high aproaches.
And if you've done them on all of them many times, you should instinctively handle all aproaches.
Autoland?
People actually autoland?
Maybe there lies the problem.
Perhaps flaring is something you'll have to do yourself.
pull up retards
Re: can landing damage be adjusted?? - Joeflyer - 30-10-2011
Arthur, you are speaking of 2 very different phases of flight...approach and landing. The blown tires are happening during the latter
Whether aperson is established on a ILS or visual approach, that's already a moot point since the blown tires happen after the fact, as the airplane has
already completed the approach phase. But, we are happy that you could inject a fair elementary guide on when to intercept a glide slope, which has
absolutely nothing to do with how a pilot lands his or her airplane. After all, a virtual pilot may fly a perfect ILS approach 100% of the time and
foul up the landing 100% of the time. I figure that the ones who foul up a landing the majority of the time actually quit flying the airplane once
they hear "50, 40, 30...etc". Chop the throttle at 50 ft with some of the virtual aircraft and that'll result in a good thud.
The "retards" statement you made was most uncalled for.