Simviation Forum - Quick question about the Project Airbus A380

Aug 28^th, 2011 at 2:56pm

Dave71k Ex Member

Hey everyone!

I've been flying the Project Airbus A380 recently and all is good, however when I try to land I find the plane has far to much lift.
For example if I approach an airport with no wind and full flaps (with a decent amount of fuel on board) at around 140-160kts which is comparable to the approach speed of a a340 or 747 I end up having to pitch down to 5 degrees to get the a380 to descend at all.
To approach and descend at a pitch I'd expect to be normal (slightly nose up) I have to fly the a380 at around 120kts which to me seems far to slow for this size of aircraft.

Has anyone else experienced this? Or am I doing something wrong?

Cheers! Cheesy

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Reply #1 - Aug 29^th, 2011 at 8:44pm

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Hey everyone!

I've been flying the Project Airbus A380 recently and all is good, however when I try to land I find the plane has far to much lift.
For example if I approach an airport with no wind and full flaps (with a decent amount of fuel on board) at around 140-160kts which is comparable to the approach speed of a a340 or 747 I end up having to pitch down to 5 degrees to get the a380 to descend at all.
To approach and descend at a pitch I'd expect to be normal (slightly nose up) I have to fly the a380 at around 120kts which to me seems far to slow for this size of aircraft.

Has anyone else experienced this? Or am I doing something wrong?

Cheers! Cheesy

Though I have not tried this aircraft I do know that with downloaded aircraft they are not always designed very well.
I have had some air craft that will spin in circles on the takeoff roll, A contact problem more than likely other aircraft like the one you described do not set up the weight and balance correctly this along with where they put the center of gravity at can cause all kinds of issues. It is really hard to find a good aircraft that is freeware. even if you try adjusting the cfg file. if the model was made wrong than you are out of luck all the adjusting in the world will not help.
Although I have not had to many problems with aircraft downloaded from project airbus. Or did you find this someplace else if so there is your problem so many people up load aircraft calling it something it is not. Trust me it happens all the time. Cool

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Reply #2 - Sep 2^nd, 2011 at 9:05pm

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Hey everyone!

I've been flying the Project Airbus A380 recently and all is good, however when I try to land I find the plane has far to much lift.
For example if I approach an airport with no wind and full flaps (with a decent amount of fuel on board) at around 140-160kts which is comparable to the approach speed of a a340 or 747 I end up having to pitch down to 5 degrees to get the a380 to descend at all.
To approach and descend at a pitch I'd expect to be normal (slightly nose up) I have to fly the a380 at around 120kts which to me seems far to slow for this size of aircraft.

Has anyone else experienced this? Or am I doing something wrong?

Cheers! Cheesy

No, it's not just you.

I don't know how to fix this problem, but I just avoid it by using flaps 5 instead of 6 for landing.

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