Without looking at the model you downloaded:

Close throttles
Shut down engines
Full flaps
Airbrake
Gear down
Point nose towards tarmac
Keep fingers crossed

The above not in any particular order...

Carlo

PS. Just kidding ofcourse. Pressing F1 (or F2, try it out) will close your throttles completely. Maybe that helps?

It is probably a case of the last flight you saved you were flying with this level of throttle whilst using the AP. It is a well known bug in FS9.
Try closing your throttle on your stick then pressing F1, this should close the throttle down.
Failing that just load a different flight, land it and close the throttle then save (make sure the autopilot is OFF)

Fozzer wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2010 at 12:01pm:
As a person of the Scottish persuasion, I've done this most of my life  .  Just kidding Fozz.

Try "leaning the mixture".

Even though jet engines don't have mixture controls in the RW, they seem to in FS.

Press CTRL+SHIFT +F2 until right before the engine cutoff and see if that helps.

cheers,
Joe

I'll be the first to say this.... that is normal idle for a jet engine!  What you are reading is N1 rpm, the gas generator speed.

You cannot "lean the mixture" in a jet engine.  It's fuel or no fuel.

In a turboprop, the condition levers usually have 3 settings, cut-off, low idle, and high idle.  At low idle, you're N1 speed stays down.... 20-30 % depending on aircraft.  At high idle, N1 will be up at 50% or over.  This is normal.

If you are cruising along at 2000 feet at mach 0.9, I'd say there is a problem with your flight model.  Most aircraft will slow down with the throttles closed... aerodynamic drag.

RAFAIR100, jets are just 'different.'

For a start, they're enormously streamlined. Beyond that, their ASIs - 'Air Speed Indicators' - 'under-read' at height, given that they work on air pressure. So a jet doing say 550 knots at 35,000 feet will only show say 275 on the ASI. The Mach. speed, on the other hand, is calculated taking air pressure into account - so it gives the 'true speed' expressed as a percentage of the speed of sound,

Even so, on a landing approach on ANY aeroplane, you should work on knots, NOT Mach. numbers.

Trick is, starting a landing descent, set the 'Speed Hold' to say 240 knots. That will probably be all of 500 knots at height, but it is 'self-adjusting' as you get lower, into thicker air.

Once down to approach height, say 2,500 feet AGL, set the airspeed to 140 knots and progressively add flap. 140 knots is just about the 'standard' landing speed for jets. You have to bear in mind that, being so streamlined, those things take absolutely AGES to slow down...

More advice on here:-

http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=COF;action=display;num=1111322...

Nav wrote on Apr 27^th, 2010 at 11:17am:


Just wanted to clarify something you said.  Airspeed indicators in jets are not inaccurate, you are just talking about the difference between indicated airspeed, and true airspeed.  That is caused entirely because of the thinner air at higher altitudes, and would affect even a glider at high enough altitudes.  Even at under 10,000 feet, you could have a difference of several kts.  It isn't an inaccuracy, but just the way the system works.  In reality, indicated airspeed is good to know, even at high altitude, because the way the lower pressure affects the airspeed indicator, is the same that it affects the wings.  You will stall at the same indicated airspeed at any altitude, a good number to know.