Tires blown is crap

[ankido]

I'm sick and tired of getting tires blown. I don't know how perfect you want me to land, but it doesn't get any perfect then this. Boing 777-200 at
150 knots land it smoothly and the idiot co pilot said tires are blown. How many times do I have to land a perfect to not blow tires? Ever since
I've installed FsPax I've had nothing but tires blown on landing. I spent countless of flight time to only land with tires blown.

[Tracker801]

Show us some of your flightreports....

If they are all above 400fpm touchdown you need a slap and get back to training, if not I will tell you how to solve it in the config.
Deal?

[relichd]

Tracker801 wrote:
Show us some of your flightreports....

If they are all above 400fpm touchdown you need a slap and get back to training, if not I will tell you how to solve it in the config.
Deal?

Tracky, I seriously admire your patience. How many times had this been discussed on this forum? Why are people so ignorant/arrogant to annoy all of us happy FsP users?

Shame on them...

And a for you

David



Post Edited ( 08-05-09 11:00 )

[DSW334]

try autoland

[Ganapi]

Ok the problem is this FPM, BUT, I'm new, so how can I know what's my fpm, is there an instrument for it ?

[relichd]

I am affraid that there is no instrument to show you your probable touchdown vertical speed. Only knowing your aircraft (speeds, flaps configuration,
etc.) and flying a stabilised approach with timely flare initiation with thrust reduction should give you nice opportunity to land without the tyre blow.

For example I'm flying A318. Once I capture the glide slope, I make sure I have the flaps set to full, gears down and speed managed by FMC. The
descend rate should be around -700ftm (either coordinated by the glide-slope or visually - watching PAPI lights and checking against the airport
approach plates). At a threshold of the runway, once my radio altimeter announces 50 I get me ready to reduce thrust to idle and start to decrease the
descend rate. At 20 feet above the runway, I set the throttles to idle and pitch up the nose at about 3 - 5 degrees and flare. I tend to float for a
second or two just to be sure I dropped as much speed as necessary. This all happens very quickly of course...

I would point out the term 'stabilised approach' because this is the alpha and omega. Only stabilised approach will offer you stabilised engines'
thrust around 40 - 60% N1. Any significant deviations could either mean you're too short and you should perform a go-around or you're too long
(high/fast) and again go-around is to be carried out (of course, you can avoid it by pushing your plane towards the ground but then you risk you'll be
too fast to manage to reduce the thrust before touch down).

After nearly 200 hours with this aircraft I execute my touchdown more by the feeling (looking out of the window of the plane, listening to radio
altimeter call-outs, watching the PAPI lights, etc.) than watching the instruments... I know the plane, how it behaves, how much it is forgiving to my
respective errors... And only had two blown tyres incidents so far...

David.

[Ganapi]

Thanks a lot man

[Ganapi]

Just didn't work, again.

I believe that the glide-slope is trowing me too short of the runway, almost hitting the landing gear at the grass before the runway. Can't it put me
a little bit forward?

[relichd]

I forgot to mention one important thing. Unless you have autoland-capable plane you'll need to disengage the autopilot at around 200ft above ground
(as indicated by radio altimeter) to fully control the touchdown phase... Do you use any flight sim devices like joystick or yokes?

David

[copilotswen]

I've never blowed my tire. Maybe because i use FSpassengers 9? my hardest landing is -400 ft min and that was during an emergency, and my tires didn't
blow?

[Ganapi]

No, The only thing I have is an old keyboard and a mouse, they are awsome

[relichd]

Well, this is the real problem. With a keyboard you will never be able to control the aircraft properly. Get some cheap joystick and you'll see the
difference...

David

[Ganapi]

Ok I'll try to get one, and thanks again.

[relichd]

No problem at all. If you weren't living in Brazil I would send you my old one... But the postage would be more expensive than getting one at your
local computer shop

Davi.

[Ganapi]

Yeah, but thanks anyway.