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There are always lots of questions on here about landing

FINAL APPROACH

LINING UP, FLARING, AND LANDING.

At this point in the

Wow!
Great post Nav.
This one should be a sticky  :)

Thanks nexus, appreciated.

Only thing is, if I'd realised before how much there was to explain, I might have thought better of it!  :)

What a marvellous production FS2004 is, though.  SO close to the real thing.

[quote]Wow!
Great post Nav.
This one should be a sticky

Gets my vote, make it a sticky, perhaps it should be called 'IFR Landing Tutorial with Screenshots' though to allow for visual, procedural and backcourse approaches.

If it's OK with you Nav - I'll add a link this from our tutorials page......

Great tute - thanks

By all means, pete - honoured!  :)

Permit me to add my thanks for all the work you put into this. As a realworld instrument rated pilot and aircraft owner , I am always cognizant of the fact it's going back to (or not forgetting) the basics of what we are trying to achieve which keeps us (and others) healthy.

I find the users who ask these type of questions the most rarely use the word 'please' nor 'thank you' so -- once again -- thanks for all the work you put into this; as noted, it will be of great help to me and other simmers.

Fly High,
Bill

Thanks, wji - I'd be surprised, though, if I could teach someone with an instrument rating anything. I never got that far, I got married instead, which was the end of flying lessons!

You're right in what you say. However much flying you've done, every flight, and especially every landing, is a new 'adventure'.

Very nice job!!
I have also added it t the FS2004 FAQ's!

Dave

good thread, you nearly mucked up your landing though!  :P

Thanks Dave, good idea.

ya nav, it was quite a helpful guide. I'm new to the forums but im not a total noob, I regularly go flying in Pipers (dont know the make) from Brize, and play on fs a lot.

i understand pretty much every part of fs and my only difficulties were trying to stay on the centre line when landing, and getting the rate of descent rate, i've pretty much mastered that so for the time being their isnt really anything im having major problems with.

im okay with the physics side of it too (i.e how to counteract wind, working out the right for speed f or certain weights etc), but i could do with some help on jet take off, as i always seem to get the nose up with the plane now climbing at all, jsut flying along the ground with the nose up for ages.

I understood your guide, its fairly simple, but you could have expanded on bits and pieces and described why and exactly what you were doing, so a total noob would be able to perfect their landings.