Better than a 'kiss' landing?

[TristenEugene]

In the end of flight report, Fspax tells you how well you landed. It seems if you can land at a ROD of less than 200 FPM you get a 'kiss'
grade.
Does anyone know if there is a better grade than this?

I managed to get this kiss grade once. and trust me? It isn't because skill had anything to do with it!!!

[vaccaro]

french kiss :p

[Drew]

'kiss' is the best grade you can get

[aibiria]

when its a hard landing, it should be then 'make out'

[captain_crunch]

aibiria wrote:
when its a hard landing, it should be then 'make out'

I'd have thought a hard landing should be a 'knocked back' or a 'stood up'

[09El_Boissevain]

Hey, I make "kiss" landings like 85% of the time!! I just like landing smooth
My record was less than -45fpm
I'll try making -35 fpm

But anyways, I don't think that there is such thing as better than "kiss".

Captain El



Post Edited ( 04-28-06 12:47 )

[Valoran]

I average a little less than -100 fps but I usually only fly smaller GA type planes. The easiest plane to "kiss" with I've found is Mike
Stone's Angel 44. She settles in real nice and smooth even in a stiff crosswind. I recommend the Angel for any c3 pilot out there. Only
problem is that there is no payload model available so I just use the default which isn't as accurate as one would like (of course).



Post Edited ( 04-29-06 09:14 )

[Jetflyer]

Kiss = <150fpm
Nice = <300fpm
Crap = 300-600fpm
Borken your plane = >600fpm

My best is -4.6fpm in a 737 airliner.

[TristenEugene]

HA! HA! does it really say crap when you nail it too hard?!?! HA! HA!

It should say Knocked up when you bounce! HA! HA! HA!

Best I do is a consistant -250

[hmdomingos]

there's no grade above kiss... but don't worry too much because you'll get the same bonus for a kiss or a nice one

[williamsmith]

Jetflyer wrote:
Kiss = &amp;lt150fpm
Nice = &amp;lt300fpm
Crap = 300-600fpm
Borken your plane = &amp;gt600fpm

My best is -4.6fpm in a 737 airliner.

Borken ?? That sounds bad!!

ws

[babua]

50 fpm is a good touchdown rate. The trick is not to let the aircraft land as far as possible and I usually cut thrrottle at 50' and some fine
tickling of the stick to maintain 50 fpm.

[Falconer]

How do you land so smooth? I always get like 300-400 fpm???

[Ryanamur]

Raise the nose a bit more when you enter ground effect. You can also leave a little bit of power to cut your descent rate even more. Keep
less and less throttle from one landing to the next and before you know it, you'll be kissing without power.

Phil

[Falconer]

Ok, thx. But the thing is, i'm always so afraid of raising the nose so high that I'll lift off lol