New on F-14 Part 2 : aircraft behavior during landing

[Black Viking]

Question 1: Why is it necessary to begin the landing pattern entry with the wings set to 68°, when we switch back to auto mode right afterward?

 

Question 2: I believe I’m following the instructions by reducing speed down to 250 to lower the landing gear, then to 225 to deploy the flaps, and then deploying the spoilers. From time to time, when setting the AoA to 15° with trim, the aircraft pitches up massively around 150 knots. I can barely recover an acceptable attitude with the spoilers… in any case, maintaining altitude at 600 ft becomes impossible. What should I do? The Chuck’s Guide says not to use the stick to control pitch…
 

Thank you for your help

[speed-of-heat]

Q1 because it looks cool!

Q2 are you using DLC?

[Ivandrov]

1 hour ago, Black Viking said:

Question 1: Why is it necessary to begin the landing pattern entry with the wings set to 68°, when we switch back to auto mode right afterward?

 

Question 2: I believe I’m following the instructions by reducing speed down to 250 to lower the landing gear, then to 225 to deploy the flaps, and then deploying the spoilers. From time to time, when setting the AoA to 15° with trim, the aircraft pitches up massively around 150 knots. I can barely recover an acceptable attitude with the spoilers… in any case, maintaining altitude at 600 ft becomes impossible. What should I do? The Chuck’s Guide says not to use the stick to control pitch…
 

Thank you for your help

Question 1: There's probably an actual answer for it, but in my experience it stops the aircraft from wanting to pitch up on you as you increase speed faster than the wing sweep schedule can keep up with. It's one less thing to have to fight the pitch up with trim as you are doing the pattern.

 

Question 2: Would have to see a track to know what exactly you are talking about. Not sure why Chuck's is saying not to use the stick for pitch adjustment. You absolutely should be using the stick for pitch adjustment during the landing while you adjust the trim. (Trim adjusts the center point of the stick, so trim nose up or down can be thought of as slower stick movement for pitch.)

Edited 16 hours ago by Ivandrov

[Black Viking]

1 hour ago, speed-of-heat said:

Q1 because it looks cool!

Q2 are you using DLC?

Yes, I use the DLC. But it is not sufficient to counter the pitch. At which speed do you start the DLC?

[speed-of-heat]

Use the stick to hold yourself on the horizon, don’t use the stick once you are on speed, on speed is not an air speed , it’s an AoA. Use dlc in the final to control rate of decent, which will allow you to control it without, using the stick for pitch.

[Black Viking]

11 hours ago, speed-of-heat said:

Use the stick to hold yourself on the horizon, don’t use the stick once you are on speed, on speed is not an air speed , it’s an AoA. Use dlc in the final to control rate of decent, which will allow you to control it without, using the stick for pitch.

Thank you.

A last question : is there a specific section in the forum to address issues about TrackIR?

[speed-of-heat]

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