Landing assistance

[J. Heller]

I land at around 150-140 knots most of the time, the flaps shouldnt come up until you are exiting the runway. Just get it on the ground as close to the proper end of the runway as possible and apply full wheel brakes and you will stop like a champ every time. If you come in too hot you can also pop the speed brakes immediately on touchdown, just like the airlines do(though most large passenger jets have automatic speedbrakes nowadays).

The ILS is completely unnecessary unless the weather is so bad you cant see the runway lights from a ways off. Keep the true aircraft heading piper on the part of the runway you want to touchdown on and at 50 feet cut the power all the way off and give it a little flare to ease it down. Aim for 140 knots with full flaps and its perfect everytime. Biggest thing I can tell you though, practice, practice, practice. Once you've landed a 747 in a 32 knot crosswind with moderate windshear this fighter plane stuff seems trivial.:smilewink:

[J. Heller]

Flying at a reduced speed you will want to add some nose up trim. But, as you slow passed 190 knots you will want to add in 7° of flaps which has a nose up effect. You may want to hold the stick back only until you slow on the approach for flaps and then add less trim because the flaps are helping keep the nose up. Full flaps have another nose up tendency.

 

Hanging the flaps out doesnt cause a "nose up tendency", it increases lift which makes the aircraft "float" a bit above your path before lowering the flaps. The actual attitude of the aircraft shouldnt change so much as the amount of lift it has. I dont understand the difficulty in landing these things, you have a HUD that tells you exactly where the aircraft is going to go, airspeed, altitude... I guess I've been doing this for too long.:pilotfly: