What on earth am I doing??
Posted: 27 Sep 2007, 08:33
Hi All,
Another weird one with FS9 (and actually with FS8).
My aircraft seem to be suffering from some degree of gliding capability and extreme light weight - particularly with winds above 5 kts. EG, when the Aircraft flares, I go sailing along the runway at about 30 feet AGL until either a: it eventually touches down about 75% into the runway, or b: I stick the throttles forward and go around. I've tried, in both 8 and 9, using autopilot with descent rates up to 500fpm, and (making sure throttle control is idle when I switch off at threshold) even then, I get the same result (on various airfields). Anyone any suggestions?
Surely not a conflict between the two versions?
As an aside, wanting to try something out, I used a super VC10 in both 8 and 9, fully loaded, and on liftoff, I shut the fuel valves on engines 1-3, and put flaps up. I was able to climb at 170 kts to 5000ft while doing a 5 degree turn to reverse course, and land safely with no flaps/slats - apart from being slightly fast, a smooth landing. The point being: is the sim overpowering my aircraft?
Another test was an standard VC10 at the NASA SSLF runway, when I rotated early, became airborne and immediately touched down and activated thrust reverse. I pulled into a climb with the engines on reverse, gaining 700 feet before the Aircraft was about to stall. I killed reverse, and the aircraft began to sink at 65 kts, full flaps, 5 nose up. Nose forward, full throttle and it recovered easily within 300 feet. (Incidentally I got no stall warning).
Are my installations kaput???
Another weird one with FS9 (and actually with FS8).
My aircraft seem to be suffering from some degree of gliding capability and extreme light weight - particularly with winds above 5 kts. EG, when the Aircraft flares, I go sailing along the runway at about 30 feet AGL until either a: it eventually touches down about 75% into the runway, or b: I stick the throttles forward and go around. I've tried, in both 8 and 9, using autopilot with descent rates up to 500fpm, and (making sure throttle control is idle when I switch off at threshold) even then, I get the same result (on various airfields). Anyone any suggestions?
Surely not a conflict between the two versions?
As an aside, wanting to try something out, I used a super VC10 in both 8 and 9, fully loaded, and on liftoff, I shut the fuel valves on engines 1-3, and put flaps up. I was able to climb at 170 kts to 5000ft while doing a 5 degree turn to reverse course, and land safely with no flaps/slats - apart from being slightly fast, a smooth landing. The point being: is the sim overpowering my aircraft?
Another test was an standard VC10 at the NASA SSLF runway, when I rotated early, became airborne and immediately touched down and activated thrust reverse. I pulled into a climb with the engines on reverse, gaining 700 feet before the Aircraft was about to stall. I killed reverse, and the aircraft began to sink at 65 kts, full flaps, 5 nose up. Nose forward, full throttle and it recovered easily within 300 feet. (Incidentally I got no stall warning).
Are my installations kaput???
:think: 
Brought a tear to the old eye to see it all go but that's it.. consigned to the recycle bin.. emptied and defragged. Reason for the little SWMBO having no space was her bl@@dy Itunes folder had almost 7gig of music on it (and this on a drive partitioned to 10gig doesn't leave a lot!) :roll: A simple solution would have been to buy her an external drive but as she's already half a dozen plug sockets short (ipods (x2).. pc.. laptop.. hairdryer.. hair straightener.. ipod dock/clock/radio.. tv, VCR.. dvd player and hi-fi - hope I've left nothing off!).. but as you can see from that little lot, it seemed more 'user friendly' to bang in the 40gig and thus save the trauma of yet more plug juggling!