Landing tutorial recommendation

[peirof]

A couple of questions...

 

As a newbie I'm trying to learn the most basic, right now land, on land. I've seen several video tutorials on YouTube, and being similar there are changes... Can you recommend me some tutorial, if possible on video, to learn how to LAND? (smooth land, not Stone land) 

 

and... related.

 

I'm using the free flight mission, so I don't have to read all the text that comes with the DCS tutorials.... I can edit that mission to for example change the starting place, change loadout or weather? 

Where I can find it? 

 

Thanks

[VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants]

First, before somebody else, read the manual. And then Chucks Guide.

 

Second, practise shore landings until you get it perfect. A video mentioned that real-life(tm) pilots practice hundreds of shore landings before going for carrier. It is really that hard.

 

Then you may wish to try the excellent Bankler's CASE 1 Recovery Trainer. It gives detailed instructions and gives you scores for your performance at each leg.

 

 

[Recluse]

What helped me is learning to do a  STABLE approach with On Speed AOA. There are numerous videos. Here are 2 plus Matt Wagner's original VFR landing Video

 

Practice lining up from a fair distance and trimming to On Speed to land with the Velocity Vector (Flight Path Marker) where you want it, On Speed controlling your descent with throttle only.

 

Then you can progress to circuits.  A good rule of thumb is to try and maintain 3 degree glideslope, so about 300 feet altitude for every mile from the runway. Start at 10 miles and 3000 feet, trimmed to on speed and take her down. Then progress to  shorter approaches keeping this in mind, then circuits.

 

Honestly, it is pretty easy to make your own mission. Open the Mission Editor, place an aircraft where you want it on approach to a runway so you start more or less lined up and practice on speed approaches. I think there are some Instant Action missions that get you more or less in the right place as well.

 

The Missions are located:

 

X:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World - Open Beta\Mods\aircraft\FA-18C\Missions

 

where X is the drive your DCS is on and the DCS folder (DCS World or Open Beta or whatever you named it)

 

If you edit the mission, be sure to save it under a different name, and preferably in your X:\Users\<username>\SavedGames\<DCS>\missions  folder, usually on C drive, but you may have it somewhere else.

 

 

 

Edited June 22, 2021 by Recluse
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