Slow Speed Pitch Instability

[sze5003]

I made a quick video to help if your struggling with the F-18 setup configuration for landing.

 

 

 

There is a thread HERE with much more info about how the USN land on the carrier and also why they do it this way with many links to all the documents in curly s posts.

 

Have some fun with setting up for the onspeed AOA before trying it out in the high pressure carrier case 1 landing. IRL pilots do hundred of laps before going to the ship. Get a feel for it first so you know what to expect from the aircraft.

 

 

 

When in the pattern you trim for onspeed AOA in LEVEL flight, you should not correct this with trim when flying down the glide slope as it is SET in level flight. Only correct with a little pitch to help resettle the AOA if in very bad turbulence. The aircraft wants to return to this level TRIMMED onspeed setup, you could say it seeks it. Much more info about this in the thread HERE.

 

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Thanks for making this. I do have a question regarding one of comments in the video. When you slow down to 250 and deploy flaps and gear, you say hold the nose until reaching 140 knots and then trim for AoA.

 

 

Am I supposed to push the stick down and hold it on the horizon line? Then as my speed drops add power and start to trim up? Getting the velocity vector on the horizon line with just trim is a little tough. I'm getting better but sometimes I end up losing power and bobbing up and down even with throttle at mil power. Need more practice I suppose.

 

 

I always extended gear and flaps as soon as I was done with the break and returning wings level but this does not give me enough time to get all the right inputs in the timeframe. For this reason I usually fly 1.5 miles past the ship, break then configure myself so I have more time to play with the pitching up and down and trimming.

[Eaglewings]

For me as the speed get to 250knt, I get my flight path maker on the horizontal line. I lower the landing gear and with this comes a slight drag but when I apply full flap down, there is this lift that compensate for the drag.

 

At some point speed begins to drop with my throttle in idle position, no need to use the stick to lower lift, as the speed drops to around 140knt, I begin to throttle up again to maintain a level flight and to avoid stall.

 

Using stick to control after leveling out offset my balance.

From this point to final after onspeed AOA trimming , I use throttle to increase and decrease altitude.

 

This is how it works me, I hope this helps. Cheers

[AvgWhiteGuy]

Can someone tell me how to show the power/attitude overlay I see in this video..that would help me understand more of what's going on.

 

Thanks

[Sarge55]

IIRC it's RCtl+Enter

[majapahit]

Can someone tell me how to show the power/attitude overlay I see in this video..that would help me understand more of what's going on.

 

Thanks

 

Flaps (full, maybe half is OK too), landing gear down, the W and the E will pop up in the HUD, if that's what you mean.

[TangoDelta418]

TM HOTAS Warthog pitch trim hat requires far, far too many inputs to set AOA. Appears to work correctly with all other aircraft - only the Hornet seems to have this problem. Any fixes available?

[Svend_Dellepude]

Must be a problem on your end. Are you using target?

[majapahit]

TM HOTAS Warthog pitch trim hat requires far, far too many inputs to set AOA. Appears to work correctly with all other aircraft - only the Hornet seems to have this problem. Any fixes available?

 

 

works just fine

[maxTRX]

… Bolter pitch control seems a bit weird as well.

 

 

This is a scary mf!...:cry: