Landing

[Marlin]

A very interesting string of comments going on here.

I usually like to do the IRF manual landings due to the fact that my graphics suck and it is hard to see the airport. Sure there are needles and the what not to point the way but I like to bring it to the ground by hand.

As a matter of fact I did my first auto landing today, quite to my suprise. It was an accident, but at least I did remember to put the landing gear down and there was no accident this time. Just recently I turned the realism setting all the way up for the landings, and have smashed the gear off a couple of times. But at least the replay was really cool.

[Mobius]

In FS, mostly manual, burn 'er in, seat-of-the-pants, white nuckle landings.  In real life, I'm only VFR rated, so only manual approaches.

[jb2_86_uk]

I am flying the new Boeing 7E7 (from simviation of course) quite a lot at the moment and have become quite good at the ol' airshow trick of putting the rear gear down and holding it like that while all the airspeed drops off then the front wheel just drops down at about 40 knots. Not very convensional in a big jet but looks cool as hell (hmmm...not hell....cool as a fridge*) lol!

Jonny

EDIT: Hm forgot to mention, I come in on the GPS, disengage on visual and fully manual after that - very satisfying when you put the nose gear on the centre line

[ctjoyce]

I do it the cheater way. Tune in my navs to the ILS and hit APR on the autopilot well it gets me down and i can enjoy the sceenery

[Jared]

Depends on the weather and all that stuff....

on a good day I'll always fly the approach manually :-)