FSX Tutorial 1: How to Land a Cessna 172

[gserlenga]

Thanks for your response, my technique has improved greatly since my last post and I've moved up to flying the C182 RG II Skylane Carenado model, I appreciate your input though, I have great fun practicing and perfecting my landing technique as much as it can be said to be "technique" in a computer simulation hehe :)

[keesvh]

Approach is too high, and not enough flare for a Cessna.

If you approach with 4 white lights, you need much rate of descend, and that could be uncomfortable for passengers

[CartesqueFilms]

@keesvh No

[MRBMYERS25]

too high on approach

[CartesqueFilms]

@MRBMYERS25 Quit whining

[RaNd0m2667]

please take a minute to look at my videos:)please

[CartesqueFilms]

@RaNd0m2667 You got it!

[RaNd0m2667]

what editing software did you use?

[CartesqueFilms]

@RaNd0m2667 FRAPPS...works well enough for me

[gserlenga]

More than anything in FSX, even with all weather off and a fast frame rate, I have some difficulty lining up head on to the runway and am always making micro corrections right up to the threshold. Also I seem to bounce at least once on landing, I think i am flaring too much possibly. the other aspects of adjusting speed, flaps, and descent rate are not as difficult for me, its the lining up steady to the runway that is tough.

[CartesqueFilms]

@gserlenga Often times beginner pilots have trouble over correcting...instead try setting up far out, and moving the controls as little as possible. If you're bouncing on landing you're most likely flaring too low. A trick some instructors use is having the student fly just feet above the runway a couple times to get a handle on the "sight-picture"....i.e. what you should see out the runway when you're in the landing process. Keep at it!

[rickypbrown1]

Personally, I think your approach is fine. If flying at Vref, following the PAPI and your engine quits, you are going to struggle to make the field. When the runway is long, leaving yourself some safety margin in height is a great idea, providing the approach is stable and that the height can be lost without having to resort to S-turns or sideslips. Also, what is everyone's problem with adding full flaps?! They shorten a landing roll and provide more lift hence lowering the Vs? Puzzled.

[kevinjamesryan]

first of all yes i "AM" a pilot,

You never just put on 30% flaps!! you put on 10% then 20%, and if your landing in a short field you apply 30% when your just about to land, the power you need to keep flying at 30% flaps is nearly full power for one....... its a good video expect from that, but because you can land a plane in FX you will not in the reall world sorry.

[CartesqueFilms]

@kevinjamesryan Congratulations on being a pilot, I'm happy for you. As it happens, I too, am a pilot. Please reference the C172SP Information Manual or aircraft specific POH for step by step landing PROCEDURES. Adding flaps is hardly a PROCEDURAL event in general aviation, and is instead entirely dependent on the aircraft, the environment, and the Captain. Blue Skies.

[bajesus666]

NEVER LAND WITH FULL FLAPS!

[CartesqueFilms]

@bajesus666 It's common practice to land with full flaps, and the Cessna 172S operating handbook recommends doing so.

[bajesus666]

@CartesqueFilms I should say when heavy dont do it :P

[BijuHDvideos]

bad graphics

[reedyspeedy12]

id say ur too high on approach! the 4 lights should be 2 red 2 white

[reedyspeedy12]

id say ur too high on approach!

[JonnyBgr]

The runway is long enough people. And he's approach very shoft and good but sure if you use the PAPI the landing looks more great and more prefessional. but he doing well

[2011skaterblue]

lol steven hawking

[dextersheep]

Nice landing, BAD approach, you were way too high

[CartesqueFilms]

@dextersheep My approach enabled a stable descent and allowed me to touchdown at a point which I had predetermined. In other words, I think my approach was fine. Approach path angle is more a matter of preference than procedure; so long as the runway is achieved safely.

[Sii010]

@CartesqueFilms Actually, I always like low approach's for some reasson. I think low approach's are better at smaller airports, but yah anyways I like low approachs. By the way nice video =)

[SmellsLikeMineCraft]

@CartesqueFilms

well said

[futurepilotkid]

@dextersheep small aircrafts come in way above the glideslope so tht they can land closer to the taxiways thn wasting all those minutes taxiing up from the runway

[SuperAbbid]

@dextersheep he wasn't that is actually the best approach probably

[fevo101]

Next time use papi lights

[CartesqueFilms]

@fevo101 Papi's are good references, but in my opinion the 3 degree glide slope provided by referencing the papi lights is too shallow for most slow trainers. My approach was completed in a stable configuration, and the runway was achieved safely.

[1267harry]

his voice is so boring man

[Brad5312]

Terible graphics

[1267harry]

@Brad5312 cause he hasent changed the settings



[rumia06]

u bad approach-too high. touchdown nice. bad quality

[TJace50]

@rumia06 HEY I HAVE BAD QUALITY BUT IM A PROFESINAL PILOT SO DONT COMMENT ABOUT BAD QUALITY> IT ALL ABOUT THE FLYING. you are right about the approach too high. use the papi system when landing

[theKoreanDonut]

@TJace50 Don't you mean, Private Pilot?

[fruitloop33344455555]

How do u do full flaps instantly? and how do u cut off ur engine instantly?

[quehacespoc]

@fruitloop33344455555 F8, and F1 respectively

[TJace50]

@fruitloop33344455555 get a joystick it will help. flaps to a degreee f7. throttle to ilde f1

[fruitloop33344455555]

@TJace50 I cant buy a joystick i spended all my money on my laptop

[rpg481]

nice landing