ebabil Posted June 9, 2020 Posted June 9, 2020 Hi guys, I am making some tests on shore base landing with tomcat. * With DLC on, I have to use DLC and trim up-down all the way till landing. Without DLC I still have to use trim or stick till landing. So the plane is not following a certain path in both cases. So why should I use DLC during landing? I thought, when DLC is on, I can get my hands off the stick and it can fly to the point that I pointed. Why should I use DLC? * After touching down, plane tends to go to left (maybe in some cases to right) I try to compensate it by easing on single break (called differential braking?) But it immediately makes the situation worse if not the worst. Enabling NWS is a suicide, pushing pedals without NWS is not strong enough to keep the plane on the centerline. Can you give me some tips? FC3 | UH-1 | Mi-8 | A-10C II | F/A-18 | Ka-50 III | F-14 | F-16 | AH-64 | Mi-24 | F-5 | F-15E| F-4| Tornado Persian Gulf | Nevada | Syria | NS-430 | Supercarrier // Wishlist: CH-53 | UH-60 Youtube MS FFB2 - TM Warthog - CH Pro Pedals - Trackir 5
miromurin Posted June 9, 2020 Posted June 9, 2020 When I trim for landing configuration on speed AOA I use just stick, throttle and dlc on final. No need to use trim all the way down. Regard to braking, do you have anti skid on?
draconus Posted June 9, 2020 Posted June 9, 2020 (edited) After touchdown, throttle idle, (spoilers are set to brakes/antiskid before landing) gradually move the stick full aft and control the rollout by moving the stick left/right. After slowing down you can turn on NWS and control with rudder. I practically never use brakes until necessary but when I need to it usually means I did my landing wrong. Veering off is normal as the aircraft is rarely perfectly symmetrical and wind have a part here too. It's not meant to be hands free landing. Trim just takes away the force from the stick. DLC is for direct lift control - you use it as correction of flight path - just temporary and back to normal without changing throttle, stick position or AoA. Edited June 9, 2020 by draconus Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
ebabil Posted June 9, 2020 Author Posted June 9, 2020 Anti skid is at "up" position. I never tried to pull the stick to aft I will try it thanks. FC3 | UH-1 | Mi-8 | A-10C II | F/A-18 | Ka-50 III | F-14 | F-16 | AH-64 | Mi-24 | F-5 | F-15E| F-4| Tornado Persian Gulf | Nevada | Syria | NS-430 | Supercarrier // Wishlist: CH-53 | UH-60 Youtube MS FFB2 - TM Warthog - CH Pro Pedals - Trackir 5
iantron Posted June 9, 2020 Posted June 9, 2020 Yeah you should set anti skid to both. Also DLC is not really an autopilot. It's a system for reducing lift without upsetting trim or pitch. It is analog variable and temporary. Engage the system and spoilers go up partially to shed lift. From there you can move the wheel up or down to shed more or less lift. Release the wheel and it snaps back to the idle position with spoilers partially up.
ebabil Posted June 9, 2020 Author Posted June 9, 2020 Stick aft was far better than bashing the brake, almost no veer on instant action mission. And I was seeing DLC as a magic approach A/P and now I get it, it is not. I will rely on stick during approach until a few miles remaining thanks FC3 | UH-1 | Mi-8 | A-10C II | F/A-18 | Ka-50 III | F-14 | F-16 | AH-64 | Mi-24 | F-5 | F-15E| F-4| Tornado Persian Gulf | Nevada | Syria | NS-430 | Supercarrier // Wishlist: CH-53 | UH-60 Youtube MS FFB2 - TM Warthog - CH Pro Pedals - Trackir 5
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