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How do you land

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Pepere

Charter Member 2015
Was wondering how different people land their aircraft. For a long time I would land from the outside view rear of the aircraft. Now I land in VC mode with tracker on. To line up I play it by the seat of my pants - no special spot in cockpit - because my tracker is on and I can look around. Also may center the top of the runway with the bottom. The top being smaller because it's further away.

David :kilroy:
 
I allways land from the vc,anyway else would be totally unrealistic for me.You can allways raise your eyepoint for a little better visability over the panel.
 
Colin,

Roger - If you can walk away it's a good landing. If you can immediately re-use the airplane it's a great landing. :ernae:

Glenn
 
Awwww,
Come on Panther.We all know that if Crash and Burn was a world sport you would be champion....lol.


Buddha13
 
I always land from the VC.

Track IR is wonderful for being able to sit up & look around the cowl/sides of the aircraft's nose.
 
I do it from VC most times, sometimes I switch to spot as soon as I am over the runway, to watch touchdown, but not too often...

And I try to touch the ground with the wheels only, not flying upside down is extremly helpful for that aspect...
 
From the VC of course. Anything else would completely miss the point of using a Sim.
 
vc - here I thought this discussion was more about technique than camera view...

I like a nice smooth descent whenever possible - a settle, rather than a dive whenever possible - however some approaches call for a steeper line maybe due to terrain, trees or buildings / neighborhoods under the pattern.

I like to look at the aircraft briefly from the external views while in flight because of REX and the lighting effects in FSX but never on departure or landing - as the man said - landing in external view defeats the purpose of the sim and would make those 3d modelers wonder why they spent so much effort making them as accurate, beautiful and functional as they have obviously strived to do.
 
In most cases the VC, but with airliners and bombers, anything with a long noses, I'll cheat and got to the 2-D with instruments.

I normally will not do a serious flight unless it is a plane with a VC I can live with, i.e. Carenado's Mentor, Piglet's Mite, etc.

Caz
 
Colin:

Ya must be having a blast with the U-bird then! I always land from the VC. With some planes (such as the U-bird) I will shift the eye position, which is mapped to a hat on my X-52, to the left such as to sight along the side of the cowling. Think of your dog's view from the rear side window as you drive along......

I think that flying from the VC gives the best clues to attitude, if sometimes not the best view of the runway.

Cheers: T.
 
I always take off and land from the VC. If I really want to watch from the outside, I'll either watch a replay, or have a new window open in the corner with spot view. This is especially nice with AI carriers, because they don't show up in replay.

I've been landing using the ILS a lot recently. Not autopilot or flight director, just following the needles to keep me on course and at a nice decent. Otherwise, I usually come in too steep.
 
I always land, as well as taxi, takeoff, and fly, from the virtual cockpit. I try to make it as real as possible and use exterior views for screen shots. I do admit to using the exterior view on the ground if I'm flying from an unfamiliar airport. Before flight I will look around and make note of the runways and taxiways, then kick the tires and light the fires.
 
Neither - i just shut my eyes :isadizzy:

Works for me in real world so why not in the sim
 
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