[REPORTED] Bolter FCS Behavior

[BBQ]

I've been trying to get comfortable with the basic VFR pattern/landing at an airfield -- and generally doing touch-and-go's until I get low on fuel. One of the things I've noticed: when I touch down I reconfigure to half flaps and T/O Trim, but when i rotate a few seconds later, it feels MUCH different than when I initially took-off and rotated-- I have to actually push the stick down to get enough speed to lower my flaps after raising the gear. This didn't make sense to me -- why should it behave any differently than when I took off 2 minutes before, with the same half flaps and T/O trim? I then read something somewhere about when the hornet bolters, or perhaps it's just any carrier launch -- that the FCS automatically pitches up -- that the pilot is basically hands-off during the launch? I'm wondering if this is what is happening when I do touch-and-go's at an airfield -- or perhaps I'm not supposed to reset flaps to half and reset to T/O Trim after "touching" and before "going"?

 

Any tips would be much appreciated --

 

BBQ

[shagrat]

I've been trying to get comfortable with the basic VFR pattern/landing at an airfield -- and generally doing touch-and-go's until I get low on fuel. One of the things I've noticed: when I touch down I reconfigure to half flaps and T/O Trim, but when i rotate a few seconds later, it feels MUCH different than when I initially took-off and rotated-- I have to actually push the stick down to get enough speed to lower my flaps after raising the gear. This didn't make sense to me -- why should it behave any differently than when I took off 2 minutes before, with the same half flaps and T/O trim? I then read something somewhere about when the hornet bolters, or perhaps it's just any carrier launch -- that the FCS automatically pitches up -- that the pilot is basically hands-off during the launch? I'm wondering if this is what is happening when I do touch-and-go's at an airfield -- or perhaps I'm not supposed to reset flaps to half and reset to T/O Trim after "touching" and before "going"?

 

Any tips would be much appreciated --

 

BBQ

 

Touch and go basically means you touch the runway settle the nosewhee, set flaps for take off, and push throttle to take off again. Why would you reset T/O trim?

 

Did you trim for 8° AoA for landing?

And keep in mind the Hornet is in Early Access, heavy WIP, though.

[ttaylor0024]

Don’t reconfigure in touch and goes. You’re simulating touching down on the carrier and getting off deck again. Leave flaps and trim where they were.

[SCU]

Thanks ED for acknowledging and actively working on solving this. FCS is pretty quirky at the moment in takeoff/landing regimes.

[BBQ]

Thanks for the replies - will leave flight control surfaces alone while touching and going --

 

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