Blowing tires at landing

[Godzila]

After landing I blow tires when braking when speed falls below 90 km/h. I use W key, no axis braking. Is this normal? What am I doing wrong?

[AegisFX]

I think what is happening can be attributed to the button applying full wheel brake. Are you flaring on landing and holding your nose up? another solution is to hold w in bursts.

[greco.bernardi]

I don´t know if it blow or a bug, because my tires don´t show any damage its only go to under ground.

Edited November 8, 2014 by greco.bernardi

[Kenan]

From my own experience, 2 things can cause tires to blowup on landing:

 

1. Breaking hard at speeds above 200km/h

2. Not keeping a straight line ie. steering the aircraft left/right while braking

 

Basically, you need to keep it straight and brake in small bursts untill the speed goes under 200 km/h where you should be able to use the wheel brake to its full extent ie. step on it.

[Godzila]

I tested it a bit more. It seems that weight is the problem. With over 90% max weight I can land ok, but I can't touch wheel brakes or tires will burst. That is without steering or crosswind. Tires burst when speed falls under 100 km/h.

[Kenan]

90% max weight?

 

IRL they call it "emergency landing". You should land with lower fuel levels..like 50% (to be on the safe side).

[Godzila]

90% max weight?

 

IRL they call it "emergency landing". You should land with lower fuel levels..like 50% (to be on the safe side).

 

It was a test. Tires burst also with 50% fuel and full load of missiles.

 

 

I think what is happening can be attributed to the button applying full wheel brake. Are you flaring on landing and holding your nose up? another solution is to hold w in bursts.

 

I thought that pressing W is somehow regulated. I see that plane breaks really hard. I agree with holding W in bursts until we get brake axis.

[BitMaster]

Well,

 

I guess you need to touch down softer. It did happen to me too on my first solo with the Lady, I even managed to blow the tires when taxiing... but that taught me how precise ED has been and ever since I fell in love with her again. She finally become a true sophisticated AC you can't just swirl around after 5 min practice ;)

 

Give yourself some time and 10-50 approaches, touch her down very gentle, brake easy till 180km/h, deploy chute, step on the brakes and enjoy a negative G Pilot effect,...until fixed ;)

 

I personally think she flies great, just that in RL I would change the FBW so it wouldn't need that much trim work, this is 30 year old circuits. Any 100 bucks Mems System can outperform the Su-27 FBW system in terms of stabilising I am afraid to say, but hey, we want the original Su, as built back then, and thats what we got, lots of work for the pilot, lots of everything you gotta get familiar with before you can actually enjoy her on-the-fly.

 

What a great A2G AC too.... Give it some SEAD missiles and I change my favourite plane LoL

 

Bit

Edited November 10, 2014 by BitMaster

[NeilWillis]

I am sure the weight on landing is the reason. You can bet the real thing is never landed as fat as that.

 

Why not try some landings at a more realistic landing weight, and then see what happens?

[Kenan]

It was a test. Tires burst also with 50% fuel and full load of missiles.

 

Of course they'll burst if you hit the brakes too early and too often. It's still a 20 something tonne jet, with or without full fuel load.

[mvsgas]

Try landing with 3560kg of fuel or less without any missiles or gun ammo.