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I’ve broken my landing gear on every landing so far. Is it really so fragile? 4.5 AoA is tricky to keep the speed below 100kts on touchdown. 

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Had only a couple of landings, but with much fuel keeping the right AoA will get you much faster than 100kts. So also keep an eye on your sinkrate. Try to stabilize the approach, cause gauges lagg a bit.

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6 hours ago, gulredrel said:

Had only a couple of landings, but with much fuel keeping the right AoA will get you much faster than 100kts. So also keep an eye on your sinkrate. Try to stabilize the approach, cause gauges lagg a bit.

Thanks. I’m using the rule to add 1.5kts for each weight increment. 60% power on the base leg turn seems to give a seriously bad sink rate. Having to throttle-up a lot to avoid that. On final the 4.5AoA is either too fast or the sink rate is excessive. Hence I always seem to get a heavy touchdown. I’ll keep practicing to see if there is a trick with this aircraft. 

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Nose landing gear probably is too fragile and need to be improved.
Regarding the main landing gear, make sure to not exceed the vertical speed. You will find a diagram which report the vertical speed vs. weight limits in the limitation chapter.

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No issues with nose wheel on my end, I have noticed the flare instantly collapses as soon as the main wheels touch which causes an aggresive pitch down onto the nose wheel if not holding back stick pressure. 

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I have the problem that the front landing gear NWS broke often after landing. The landing gear ist fine, i only cant activate NWS anymore.

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I have the problem that the front landing gear NWS broke often after landing. The landing gear ist fine, i only cant activate NWS anymore.

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This happens if you take off with the NWS active.
NWS bust be deactivated before to start the take off run, or at least before reaching 50kts.
NWS active during all take off run may cause its failure.

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I managed to damage the Nose Gear 3 times yesterday Taxiing out of Nellis - the first two times I felt like I was being gentle on the brakes, the third time I was off the brakes altogether aircraft lurched, pilot blacked out and nose collapsed - am I doing something drastically wrong or is there still ground/ NWS issues? 

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I think this is all related to this bug report. Changes to the front landing gear didn't make it into yesterday's patch.

My plane exploded during taxiing at around 10 - 20 kts, so no where near the 50 kts max. NWS speed. On some occasions, nose wheel dipped deep, pilot shortly blacked out without exploding. But there is a critical point where the plane simply explodes 😉

 

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This nose wheel steering engaged on take off then causing the nose gear fail is a bit over done imo. The following excerpt from the MB339 Pilot training manual describes the reasoning behind having the NWS off for take off. However there is no actual prohibition in the flight manual. With that in mind I think having it on causing the failure on the subsequent landing (regularly) is bit overdone. If the take off was normal with little required NWS input then damage should not occur. Fair enough if rapid heavy use of nws at high speed was used. ... just my 2c worth.

MB339-PTM-NWS.jpg

This snippet from the Flight manual is also relevant:

MB339-NWS-bug.jpg

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