23-07-2011, 08:10 AM
Akatala,
What is your decent rate at touchdown time? I am asking this because when I first started flying with FS, I also had a lot of tire and gear problems
when it came to landing. In some occasions, I was landing so hard that some portion of the landing gear would disappear on touchdown on some planes.
In my case, I was simply landing with too steep a decent rate and basically slamming the plane into the ground.
My solution was to change the default AP VS which for most planes is 1800 ft/min to 700 ft/min. For every landing, I fly using the keyboard and make
sure that I am 1500 feet above the runway with about 8 nm to go. I then begin reducing my AP ALT by 200' every nm so that I'm about 200' above the
runway with about 1 nm to go. This, of course, is all slightly variable depending on whether or not the genius scenery designers at Microsoft have
placed an office building or large tree at the end of the runway! Anyway, from there, with about 1/2 nm to go, I descend to 100' above the runway,
turn off SPD from the AP, turn off autothrottle if applicable and then, once my nose is just about at the beginning of the runway, I reduce to 0'
above the runway and just prior to touchdown, I hit F1 to cut the throttle. I haven't mentioned flaps, but of course, I've deployed full flaps as
well. I also reduce my speed at the beginning of this procedure to about 10 kts above whatever the full flaps minimum is for whatever plane I am
flying. If my load is light, sometimes it is only 5 kts above min.
The result is that I consistently land with an average descent rate of about -225 ft/min, which FSP labels as "nice" and which does no damage to
either the tires or the gear.
If you are landing with that little of a descent rate and your tires are still blowing out, then it's a problem with the plane itself and not FSP.
Try using a different 727 if that is what you like to fly. I've ditched several planes over the years simply because their contact points were too
sensitive and my gear would collapse (or tires blow out) regardless of how gently I landed and this was before I starting using FSP.
Post Edited ( 07-23-11 09:11 )
What is your decent rate at touchdown time? I am asking this because when I first started flying with FS, I also had a lot of tire and gear problems
when it came to landing. In some occasions, I was landing so hard that some portion of the landing gear would disappear on touchdown on some planes.
In my case, I was simply landing with too steep a decent rate and basically slamming the plane into the ground.
My solution was to change the default AP VS which for most planes is 1800 ft/min to 700 ft/min. For every landing, I fly using the keyboard and make
sure that I am 1500 feet above the runway with about 8 nm to go. I then begin reducing my AP ALT by 200' every nm so that I'm about 200' above the
runway with about 1 nm to go. This, of course, is all slightly variable depending on whether or not the genius scenery designers at Microsoft have
placed an office building or large tree at the end of the runway! Anyway, from there, with about 1/2 nm to go, I descend to 100' above the runway,
turn off SPD from the AP, turn off autothrottle if applicable and then, once my nose is just about at the beginning of the runway, I reduce to 0'
above the runway and just prior to touchdown, I hit F1 to cut the throttle. I haven't mentioned flaps, but of course, I've deployed full flaps as
well. I also reduce my speed at the beginning of this procedure to about 10 kts above whatever the full flaps minimum is for whatever plane I am
flying. If my load is light, sometimes it is only 5 kts above min.
The result is that I consistently land with an average descent rate of about -225 ft/min, which FSP labels as "nice" and which does no damage to
either the tires or the gear.
If you are landing with that little of a descent rate and your tires are still blowing out, then it's a problem with the plane itself and not FSP.
Try using a different 727 if that is what you like to fly. I've ditched several planes over the years simply because their contact points were too
sensitive and my gear would collapse (or tires blow out) regardless of how gently I landed and this was before I starting using FSP.
Post Edited ( 07-23-11 09:11 )
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