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I'm pretty new to FSX, but, I'm LOVING it so far.

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You be better off flying slow props  untill you get the hang of it. Jets are a lot harder to slow down and due to there nature usually land at a lot higher speeds. Try to be at 1500 ft AGL ( above ground, you need to know airport altitude ) at 5 nm out. Start slowing down, easiest is to reduce throttle and just keep the nose level the plane will start slowing down, once the plane gets below gear deployment speed , drop the gear that will slow you down further, and start deploying flaps, you need to know some of the aircraft specs for this as gear and flaps can only be deployed below ceratin speed so they wont break. Now most runways, but not all have VASiI lights, they are the lights on the end of the run way. There are two types in fsx, the T and the red, white lights. The red white lights are easy, if ther are four lights, and teo are red, two are white you are on glide slope, if more are white you are too high, more are red you are two low. IE red your dead. The T have a t form if you only see the horizontal bar you are on glide slope if you see the upside doen t you are to high, normal t too low, ( corect me if im wrong its hard to see in fsx ), But generally most planes on glide sope descend at around 500 feet per minute for a normal 3degree glide slope. You dont always need full flaps especially on smaller planews with long runways, also some planes will nose up when you deploy flapes and this need to be countered. Too slow down more on glide slope simply reduce throttlse but watch your stall speed, if that is too slow pull nose up slightly that will help. If you have a 737 they have speed brakes use them sparingly ast the slow you down quiet fast, but not all jets have them especially smaller ones.

Great to see a new guy not asking about auto-land!

For landing:

I suggest you use the Cessna 172 Skyhawk for the first time around. It's a fantastic plane, and I still use it.

When you descend, you wanna descend 1000 feet, every three nautical miles you fly. If you wanna know how fast to descend, take your airspeed, and multiply it by six. That'll give you a not 100% precise, but still a solid number to go from.

When flying small props (which I do almost exclusively) I like to fly most of the approach at 90 knots. A descent rate of 485 FPM will get me to the runway.

When you wanna slow down, do it in good time.

Several miles out from the airport, pull back on the throttle, and hold the plane in straight and level flight, don't let it descend.

That will naturally give you a lower speed. As you slow down, slowly add flaps. You don't want to be going too fast there, as you'll get way too much lift, and it'll be hard to descend, plus you might damage the flaps.

As for the airport, if you want, I can take a look around, and make an updated version of it?

If your to high and fast you can always just use the speed brake (/). Not really a good way but it does the trick.  ;)


And sorry I don't know where to get that scenery and I know how fruatrating it is trying to find home airports. (Theres no decent Brisbane INTL (YBBN) at this time. Grrrrr... )

You've posted this question twice.. I answered in the other post..lol

So sorry about the double post.  There was a glitch with work computer when I was posting  :-[

Thank you all for the advice, it is much appreciated

Great to see a new guy not asking about auto-land!

I want to learn the "correct" way

Thank you again for the advice, I thought it was kinda odd that the sim drops you into a huge plane that fast, but, i was just going through the lessons  ;D

hey dude i fly outta lansing too,

no decent airport for us. but if you ahve a good computer, UTX/GEX/Xclass and real world AI, you really dont need an addon, it looks pretty close to the real thing.

stock is a whole nother ballgame.

Great to see a new guy not asking about auto-land!

I want to learn the "correct" way

Thank you again for the advice, I thought it was kinda odd that the sim drops you into a huge plane that fast, but, i was just going through the lessons

Thank you all once again.

Great to see a new guy not asking about auto-land!

Ahh man, I was starting to warm my fingers up for my anti auto-land speech....

Oh, give it anyway!  

Great to see a new guy not asking about auto-land!

Ahh man, I was starting to warm my fingers up for my anti auto-land speech....

Well once I read newbie question then saw that andrew has the last post I knew I had to get in this conversation  ::)

Well, I *really* don't want to disappoint anyone, so, I have one more question... How do you auto-land?  ;D  ;)