clarenceover wrote:With regards to speeds, the speed to fly correctly very much depends on aircraft type and weight, nothing else!
Some aircraft are capable of slow speeds if at light weight, particularly the 757-200 where 124kts would be more than plenty!
A landing speed for a 757 can be, yes, a hair under the 125 shown in the screenshot.... the landing speed. That would still be too low for an approach speed. He wouldn't want to be going that slow until he was already over the threshold of the runway. And that is for a 757. A lot of other jets have a much higher approach and landing speed. Therefore, in this little mystery, it would probably be helpful to know which aircraft/add-on he was flying.
As for landing speed depending upon aircraft type and weight and nothing else, wind conditions and flap settings are also hugely important. As far as I can make out, flaps appear to be set at around 15, or halfway give or take. If he is coming in super slow, for many aircraft in that circumstance flaps would be at full.
I swear I am not trying to be bellicose or obstinate here, but the airspeed keeps leaping out at me as being too low. And, given the scant information we have from the post and the screen shot, it is my first guess as to a major factor of what could be going wrong.
I think we can all agree that the aircraft is below the glide path (at least, I hope being in the dirt short of the runway is below the glide path!!
). The question is,
why is he below glide path?
- Did he capture the ILS signal? Well, it certainly shows up on his displays, both the glide slope and the heading. So, as far as that goes, he seems to have captured the ILS approach.
- Are his displays providing correct information? Given his position in the screen shot, yes. He is below the glide slope (in the dirt) and to the right of the runway, and both those positions are correctly displayed.
At a glance, the AP and ILS all appear to be 'normal'. So, what went wrong? Either the add-on is defective, or there was something wrong with his approach. And, to get any further, it seems almost necessary to know which add-on aircraft is being used, because...
He did say that he had no problem with the default FSX SE aircraft (are the default aircraft being used and the add-on of the same type, i.e., all 737's, all A320's, etc., or of different types?), so I would love to know which add-on this is and give it a try for myself.