Hi there,

I usually fly the Learjet, and I have a question about the landing... When I am lined up with the runway, in final approach, trying to keep the speed down to 140 IAS, flaps at 20, and descending at 800 fpm , the nose of the plane goes up, so that I often lose the runway out of sight. I know I can use SHIFT+ENTER to adjust the view, but is that how it  happens in real life ? Should the pitch angle be kept to the minimum and how would I do this ?

Jeff

Unfortunately it's just another one of the quirks on FS. To answer your question: NO this is not the way it appears in real life!   I noticed this effect on many of the aircraft on FS. What I have gotten in the habit of doing, is to raise the seat up two notches, and then right before touchdown, toggle the view to the side(with a sidewinder joystick). This will return the view to the default setting, or else you'll be looking straight down at the runway centerline, when the nose wheel touches down. Also, make sure you use full flaps during landing, not 20degrees.

If your going to be doing an Autopilot landing then there is no need to look anyway... Just hope.

yea...but autopilot is a great way to collect aircash for long flights on esky


then again...server errors work very well to! 

Some of this is down to approach speed. If you slow too much, the M$ flight model makes the nose rise in order to generate more lift to the point where the aircraft will eventually stall. Increase speed and the nose will lower giving a better view.

But for some reason many designers seem to think this is how heavies especially really land. Can you imagine a 747 approaching a field like O'hare with 500 people on board and the pilot can't see the runway. Stoopid.

I correct many FDEs by increasing the flap lift. This means that in order to stay on glidepath the model has to lower it's nose otherwise it climbs. Result, a better view. But the other side is that nose down increases speed - so you often as well get a slower, more realistic approach speed. If it goes too far though then you often have to make other FDE changes to get the speed back up again while retaining the improved pitch attitude.

Hope this is useful info

BTW you don't do 140kts with 20deg flap in a Learjet. You'd need full flap and in any case you ALWAYS land with full flap in a heavy or a jet like the Lear

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Which is neither heavy, nor a Lear.

I know, just making a point.   

Yeah OK guys - very esoteric discussion.

We're not talking fine points here - trying to help someone overcome a fundamenal problem