Question about landing ?

[hachiman]

Hi. Forgive me if i sound extremely dumb here.:cry:

But in my understanding to go high or low, you mostly use your joysticks forward and back movement. And to increase or decrease speed you use your throttle.

 

However in the part of the manual which covers your landing approach it says to increase/decrease height to use your speed. And to increase/decrease speed to use pitch up and down.

 

Why the difference and not just use the designed functions as in my first paragraph?

 

Thanx

[mvsgas]

Do a search in google. You can find many, many websites about sims/real aircraft information on landing aircraft. For example;

http://stoenworks.com/Tutorials/How%20to%20land%20airplanes.html

 

I did not reed the entire site, just using it as example.

 

Read chapter 8

Edited September 1, 2010 by mvsgas

[profanicus]

But in my understanding to go high or low, you mostly use your joysticks forward and back movement. And to increase or decrease speed you use your throttle

 

I think your understanding is a common misconception, and the manual is correct. When flying an aircraft you use the joystick forward/backward to control your speed, and the throttle to control your height.

[hachiman]

Much appreciated guys. Thanx

[TeeJay82]

its all about the glideslope/aoa

[Stickers]

Here is a general idea I put in my head when I am landing:

When you are on final for landing, think of the aircraft as always falling towards the runway. Your throttle is what you want to use to slow or increase your rate of descent. I usually just try and keep my flight path indicator hovering on top of the runway numbers. Each aircraft lands differently but this is a good place to start when grasping the idea.

[Jinro]

....the way I fly it's a mix.....when you decrease throttle to slow to landing speed, you have to raise the nose a bit to keep the plane airborne, but it can't be too high because then you won't be on glideslope.

 

Unless I'm mistaken, the only time you solely rely on throttle to change altitude is when you're landing on a carrier. Watch some YouTube videos and you'll hear the engine on Navy jets constantly change power. Air Force tends to keep the engines at a steady pace until just over the runway.