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I downloaded a file (dehavilland.zip, FSX props, page 4) from Simviation and have a couple issues with it.

First, I can't get the plane to stop moving forward after landing on the water unless I stop the engine.

Second, the plane keeps hopping out of the water.

Any ideas as to what would need to be tweaked?

I downloaded a file (dehavilland.zip, FSX props, page 4) from Simviation and have a couple issues with it.

First, I can't get the plane to stop moving forward after landing on the water unless I stop the engine.

Second, the plane keeps hopping out of the water.

Any ideas as to what would need to be tweaked?

Well, some of that may be pilot error.

You hop out of the water on landing, right? If so, then slow down quite a bit before committing to your approach.

It is actually common practice from what I have read to shut down your engine when landing a float plane. If that doesn't work, then either engage reverse thrust, OR do it the "turbo" way, drop your propeller pitch to 0, and push the throttle to full.

No, it isn't hopping out on landing.  The plane is hopping out of the water whether it's moving across the water or sitting still.

Never had a problem getting other float planes to stop simply by reducing the throttle to zero...but I'll try playing with the pitch.

Bring it to idle and then 2 or 3 taps of reverse thrust (F2).

Don't know about the hopping. I believe I still have the default values in the [contact_points] section and it doesn't hop. You could try playing with the 'Static Compression' and 'Max/Static Compression Ratio' for the floats.

I've seen this happen if terrain scenery is drawing in slowly (particularly with add-on terrain enhancement), but it should eventually settle down. If your loading into an 'enhanced' scenery area, try a default SPB.

Dave

Thanks for the tips.