I can't land?

[darkhorse]

I was crusing around in the Cessna Skylane, or which ever one it is that has the retractable gear.  Anyway, every time I tried to land, I would shove the nose in to the ground as if the nose gear wasn't there.  It would not be detected as a crash, so I even used the slew to try and land again.  I tried 5 times with the same result each time.  My gear should have been out because I have failures turned off.  At first I was doing 85-90 knts.  Then I slowed it down each time, the last time I was on the ground at about 50 knts with just the 2 back gears touching.  I tried lowering the nose down, and even with a very gentle rate still dug in.  I haven't landed this plane before, so am I doing something wrong here?  I'm thinking of coming in at a higher rate of speed so I can land without having to flair as much.  But I have to go to bed soon, and don't want to try again tonight.

BTW, this was happening at KBGL, right next LAX if it makes any difference.

[x]

Are you using runway #30?
{main runwa}
just did 2 landings
one at 70#s full flair and one at
90#S hit and stick
no problems
have you added any scerney in CA?

[FSTipster]

[quote]I was crusing around in the Cessna Skylane, or which ever one it is that has the retractable gear.

[Moach]

check your approach

maybe if you come from too high into the runway (on a steep dive) you'll be forced to land on your nose gear

since the nosegear is not designed to withstand the stress of a landing, it breaks off

once it's already broken you won't be able to land without it

try reloading the plane on the SELECT PLANE screen, that should fix your wheel

[darkhorse]

Well, I don't know what it was, but it is fixed now.  i reloaded MSFS and it works fine.  I can't remember how hard I landed the first try that could have broken the nose gear.  I might try gear up landings late to see the sparks.  I did it with the float plane, now I think I'll move up to other props and big jets.  OOOohhhhh, pretty sparkles. lol