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hello everyone, I recently started playing fsx again and I'm trying to practice my flying skills.
Here is the question, my most recent flight I landed with -100ish ft/m landing touchdown with a cessna 172. Is it good or if not, what is a good landing touchdown?
Thank you

Hey there!

I am no real life pilot, so my ideas here are solely limited to what I fly in FSX. I think it is good but you can aim for even less. When I land I always try to flare so that the transition is smooth, like if I was continuing the ride, only now I have the wheels on the ground. For that you need to be at the right altitude and speed, so controlling these two is paramount. My current mental picture of a landing is (and please, anyone, correct me if I am wrong) is

1) setting up early for landing to get on the right speed and altitude/glideslope; this is important - you want to be proactive and take the actions first, not only react to the plane; also, learn about your plane - at least its speeds should be in your head.

2) cross the runway threshold at around 50ft altitude; for the Cessna 172, wait until I am a bit closer to the runway then start a gentle flare that will put the plane down very smoothly, but still inside the first 1/3rd of the runway. I (try to) almost fly level when flaring, just letting the bird settle.

3) Break, clean up, taxi  - and don't forget ATC if you fly with it. 

As I said, I only fly FSX, no real life experience. But I hope this helps somehow.

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Greg got it.

I suggest going through the FSX training missions as they walk you through basic flying skills.

Tailwinds,
Adam

Thank you, I managed to have a better landing than the -100 one, I'm now trying to be consistent about it.

As Adam has recommended, take the Flight Sim flying lessons, and practice, practice, practice, in the Cessna 172 Trainer, until you have perfected all your flying skills.....
...all of them!

Paul...FS 2004... ...!

I average about -150fps or so in the NGX which isn't too bad, could be a lot less comfortable. I tend to have issues with her floating still as I haven't quite got full experience flying her yet. She's great to hand fly (I usually manually fly her p to at least 10,000ft) but the landings take some adjusting to.

"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one."