Landing advice

[Lane]

 

 

1 hour ago, oldcrusty said:

No, the real Hornet's stick doesn't move as you trim. 

Off course not.. trim mean disconnect the system and then you return the hotas to center position. This is just for don^t have to apply force on the hotas all the time.  for Landing ( honest you can land an hornet in any way  landing on hornet is not reallly hard ).. take the AOA descent, correct the angle if needed then use throttle for stay on speed, 

Flaps full down will create a balloon effect, it is normal.  You know it so correct it by pitch down a bit at same time. then you will see the ballon effect will stabilize. Peoples tend to do this just close of the landing. omg you have time to prepare you way before. go down on speed and prepare the plane way before that so you are not in hurry and stress before touchdown.  Do not react, act before

 

 

 

 

Edited September 9, 2022 by Lane

[maxTRX]

So... what else is there?  Landing Hornets is easy and ballooning is normal... We're all good.

[Ephedrin]

Am 9.9.2022 um 20:54 schrieb oldcrusty:

No, the real Hornet's stick doesn't move as you trim. 

So it always moves back to the center when you trim? 

[maxTRX]

2 hours ago, Ephedrin said:

So it always moves back to the center when you trim? 

Yep. Some time ago 'Curly' posted a pretty good description of how the stick works in Hornets, Eagles, some other folks chimed in with viper stuff. Interesting material.  It was posted in Hornet's general forum.

[CBStu]

I am not sure what exactly you mean by 'it always moves back to the center'. But let's think of why trim exists in normal flying. Whether it is an uneven missile or bomb load, or a change in speed, or a crosswind, one could fly w/o using trim at all. But that would get trying real quickly. For any influence that causes the plane not to fly straight and level no one wants to have to hold the stick off center constantly to go straight. Also for at least some length of time, the offset stick needs that same amount of offset constantly. Getting a constant amount of offset is why we have trim.

[BuzzU]

Speaking of the Hornet and trim. Every now and then the Hornet freaks out and suddenly is trimmed about 20 clicks up. That's how much down trim I need to apply to get it to fly straight again. I have no idea what i'm doing to cause that?

 

What would cause that?

 

 

[razo+r]

13 minutes ago, BuzzU said:

Speaking of the Hornet and trim. Every now and then the Hornet freaks out and suddenly is trimmed about 20 clicks up. That's how much down trim I need to apply to get it to fly straight again. I have no idea what i'm doing to cause that?

 

What would cause that?

 

 

Do you have a track?

Or do you mean the ballooning that happens when you deploy flaps?

Edited September 20, 2022 by razo+r

[BuzzU]

I don't but i'll get one the next time it happens. I kept thinking it was me and I was trying to figure out what I could be doing wrong.

[maxTRX]

3 hours ago, BuzzU said:

I don't but i'll get one the next time it happens. I kept thinking it was me and I was trying to figure out what I could be doing wrong.

Did you have A/P on and dirtied up before disengaging A/P?  This can cause pitch trim to act up...  in DCS.

[BuzzU]

I'm not aware of that but anything is possible. I'll see if I can reproduce that.

 

I don't care if i'm to blame. As long as I know what it is I can avoid it again.