ctguy1955 Posted January 6, 2016 Posted January 6, 2016 I just could not change the photo on the cockpit and had a nice person help me with doing that. The Dora is my favorite DCSW plane and while Im doing really well now taking off, I still cant land it for beans. I have had some tips from others and found a great video and have tried everything and just cant get the hang of landing. I don't die upon landing, but I always break the Dora where I have to have it fixed. Strange how I can land the Mustang no problem, but not the German Planes. [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SyG9iVEhYA[/ame] this was so much help, but I just need another thousand of hours practice.
Anatoli-Kagari9 Posted January 7, 2016 Posted January 7, 2016 As I can listen from Eric Brunotte's words in the ED interview, the D9 behaves somewhere between a glider / Mf109 and the A3 when it comes to landing, meaning, I believe, that ground effect is more effective keeping it "floating" along the rw as speed bleeds off, instead of falling heavily as he describes like " a piano from the 5th floor" when in the A3. All you have to do, IMO, is to reduce the speed to 200 km/h on short final, then cut the engine as you pass the rw threshold and gently start "denying" the ground, by using very sensible back pressure ( increasing ) on your stick to maintain the pitch necessary for the three wheels to touch the ground more or less at the same time. Flight Simulation is the Virtual Materialization of a Dream...
BitMaster Posted January 7, 2016 Posted January 7, 2016 (edited) +1 to above but let me put in other words, technically, what you wanna do with this: You want a 3-point landing where all 3 wheels touch the tarmack at the same point. You do not want to induce lift again, therefore you pull elevator all the way to stall when touching down, this provokes a stall ( while on ground ) so you wont lift off again for a monday-tuesday-wednesday-Landing ( hop hop hop & break ). You need to "flare" the machine like 1 foot above the ground until it STALLS onto it's three gears, that is the sweetspot, the hard part, that youz must practise, develop senses for and adopt to all tail draggers. It needs many hundreds of landings to develop the senses and feeling but it will come if you stick to it, practise it and always question yourself if you cant do better. I have learned flying on PC and R/C for the past 20 years+ and without R/C I would have a lesser skill flying, less understanding of "air"...hard to put in words... Edit: if the plane has a high tendency to lift off again you can and maybe should also apply full aileron after touch down in addition to full elevator to break any lift that wants to generate itself. That helps a lot to stay on the tarmack in RL and I guess DCS is no different. ***Landing is the most important part of all flying*** you see hte P-47 D23 coming in for landing in my avatar ? that's the finals for a 3-point. Make a mistake and you need 1 winter to fix it. That's how you learn faster to do it better :) Some thrill, some real adrenaline :)) Edited January 7, 2016 by BitMaster Gigabyte Aorus X570S Master - Ryzen 5900X - Gskill 64GB 3200/CL14@3600/CL14 - Sapphire Nitro+ 7800XT - 4x Samsung 980Pro 1TB - 1x Samsung 870 Evo 1TB - 1x SanDisc 120GB SSD - Heatkiller IV - MoRa3-360LT@9x120mm Noctua F12 - Corsair AXi-1200 - TiR5-Pro - Warthog Hotas - Saitek Combat Pedals - Asus XG27ACG QHD 180Hz - Corsair K70 RGB Pro - Win11 Pro/Linux - Phanteks Evolv-X
humptydumpty Posted January 7, 2016 Posted January 7, 2016 Hey congrats on able to take off :) one day I shall succeed too :) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Attitude Power Trim Power Attitude Trim Wing Commander SWAC
Anatoli-Kagari9 Posted January 7, 2016 Posted January 7, 2016 (edited) I just could not change the photo on the cockpit and had a nice person help me with doing that. The Dora is my favorite DCSW plane and while Im doing really well now taking off, I still cant land it for beans. I have had some tips from others and found a great video and have tried everything and just cant get the hang of landing. I don't die upon landing, but I always break the Dora where I have to have it fixed. Strange how I can land the Mustang no problem, but not the German Planes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SyG9iVEhYA this was so much help, but I just need another thousand of hours practice. OTOH, that's a very ingenious way of coping with those situations under which we simmers can frequently be caught at the PC "flying" the sim, instead of doing some home tasks... You can always say - "Sugar, I am here just looking at your beautiful smile in this photo ..." Edited January 7, 2016 by jcomm Flight Simulation is the Virtual Materialization of a Dream...
Zimmerdylan Posted January 7, 2016 Posted January 7, 2016 Wow.......All I can tell you is that one day, it just clicks and you can do both take off and landing. And there seem to be a thousand ways that people figure it out. I remember when it clicked for me and I could not have been happier. It also clicked with the 109 too. The funny thing about it is that until the magical day when everything just fell into place, I had to do everything just a certain way to get it to work. After it clicked, I have more freedom to let up on my strict methods. None the less.....It made flying both planes so much more enjoyable for me.
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