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Stearmandriver

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  1. Stearmandriver's post in Case 3 Landings: Need some help was marked as the answer   
    Entirely normal to end up left of course if you're not correcting for it. The carrier is moving, and because the landing area of the deck is angled, the runway is always moving to your right. You need to either establish the correct crab for this, or make continuous corrections to the right. 
    Both needles get more sensitive as you get closer, so you've gotta be very gentle with your corrections as you get closer.  Couple degrees of heading, and very gentle power adjustments for glideslope. 
  2. Stearmandriver's post in Continued Cut Pass grades from LSO was marked as the answer   
    Well, the thing is, you didn't do anything wrong.  The bug is that the DCS Hornet's nose drops sharply just before touchdown, for no reason.  It should not do that, it's a bug in the flight model. 
     
    So, yes, the LSO is correctly critiquing a 3pt landing; but the airplane itself is doing something it should not do.  I asked about this a while back in the Hornet subforum, and Bignewy said he thought it was one of the things being looked at in the flight model review. 
     
    The only way to somewhat prevent it is to make a significant power addition a second or so before touchdown.  This is a way to trick the system; but it can obviously destabilize the pass and push you into a 4 wire.  Frustrating, but that's what it is right now. 
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