Soft Field Takeoff and Landing Tutorial (MSFS)

[romeogolf72]

Your videos are well thought out and thorough in their presentation. Many thanks.

[NICENAD]

Thanks for the reply. I will remember that a soft field takeoff/ landing can't hurt you on a normal paved runway and is good for your practice compared to normal takeoffs/landings.

[NICENAD]

It was the soft field landing that kept me from getting my private pilot certificate

because my simulated soft field landings almost always ended up like normal landings and I never landed on soft fields. These are excellent tutorials.

[FSX404]

@NICENAD

Thanks, I do them all the time too, but never on a actual soft field either, the insurance on the planes we rent won't allow it.

[FLSimaviators]

Great job with this tutorial, I appreciate people like you taking the time to make these videos for sim pilots to learn...

[FSX404]

@FLSimaviators

Thanks, glad I could help.

If you are into sim flying a lot, check out the extreme airport series I have, that is getting into some serious stuff for higher level simmers.

[FLSimaviators]

@FSX404 Will do, thank you.

[UkraineStar77]

Hi,

can I do a video as a response of the soft field takeoff and landing...and postit here ??

[FSX404]

@UkraineStar77

I don't want people to post videos on my tutorials, or videos that are in the tutorial playlist, but you can post it as a response on any other video I have.

[UkraineStar77]

@FSX404

no no, i meant i upload it as a normal video and send you the link, so you can rate it.

[akashley]

Very good job. I will soon be flying a c-180 tail dragger are the procedures different ?

also could you talk a little about the pre take off set up for a constant speed prop.. thanks .. 

[FSX404]

@akashley

Very different in a taildragger, you're supposed to touch the ground with your small rear wheel first for a soft field landing, & the rudder work is so much more difficult in a taildragger that it is impossible to simulate in the flight sim. When they say you need to stay ahead of the plane, you really do need to stay ahead of the plane while taking off or landing in a taildragger.

As far as the constant speed pop, every one I have flown is set for max RPM for takeoffs & landings.

[logstarful]

After 500 AGL I have to carry my normal procedures?

[FSX404]

@logstarful

At 1000 feet AGL, at 500 we just bring the flaps up, we still need the safety of 1000' AGL before we proceed with the normal climb out.

[guroc82]

Keep the tutorials comming...........they help add some realism to FSX....thanks

[727freak]

R u a real pilot?

[triggerjoe65]

awesome demo!  Subbed

[danben1001]

awesome man..really nice and informative..

[skybluemovies]

Really interesting! Thanks for this! :) Your videos are what keep interested in flying Cessnas. I'm not only an airliner fan, I like flying in general. The feeling of flight :) S.

[FSX404]

Prop planes are more interesting to fly, believe it or not, they are more complicated to fly.

[skybluemovies]

I just like flying. Flight, Gravity, everything to it. X-plane is really nice if you want to fly VFR and IFR with props, and I just can't wait to start doing Traffic patters, VORs, flightplans all done on the Cessna 172 ;)

[fsxman1]

Nice Video! That was Great and good information!!! you are a great pilot!! just checking but when you do soft field landings shouldn't you do a fly by around the runway to make sure that the runway looks good to land on? Nice Video!! it helped a lot i tried it right after i watched the video lol 5/5

[FSX404]

It is a good idea to overfly it, it is also a good idea to ask another pilot if he/she is in the area, or even call the frequency of the field and seeing if anyone answers.

Someone around the field may also have a two way radio. They may answer, so you can just ask them.

Again, all of this goes to judgment calls.

The bottom line is any additional information about your landing field is always a plus, any way you can get it.

[FSX404]

Thanks for the nice comment,

[JSegundo02]

awesome!!

[hairybearz]

thanks for telling me the landing strip name

[SNSKreationz]

my landing was good like yours :) (after 2 tries)

the hardest part for me was getting the right glideslope.

i guess u get that from experience

[FSX404]

It took me 5 to get this one right,

just kidding, they were all first tries except the 172 takeoff. I played too long in the ground effect on the first one, by the time I put the plane into a climb I was at 72 kts (which is OK if it wasn't for the trees), so I re-did that one.

finally someone admitting they tried it, LOL, thanks, I appreciate your comment

It takes a few tries to get used to the 60/63 kts pitch attitude approach. You really have to control that descent using the throttle.

[FSX404]

But if you did it in 2, that is awesome. It's really automatic with me, you're right, I've done it so many times I can't remember.

I looked at my official logbook to check and I have done over 700 actual landings, and still manage to mess half of them up, LOL, thank God for soft field touchdowns, it will fix any landing, LOL, just add that power, it smooths any touchdown right away.

[SNSKreationz]

700 landings...i probably havent had that much in FSX haha

i watch your vids like a briefing before i go to fly. and in front of my keyboard i wrote on a piece of paper "pitch controls speed, power controls descent" before i had these words my landings sucked. thx :)

i would like to record my vids but i only get like 35 fps and when i press record with fraps its like a powerpoint slideshow for some reason.

[FSX404]

I did a lot of airport hopping in my early training, 5-7 at a time, it teaches you to stay ahead of the plane.

During a cross country flight, you actually have a second to catch your breath, but when you fly 7 airport in 1 hour, you are really extremely busy.

The first time you do it you have to do it with a CFI, because you WILL have a nervous breakdown and crash the plane.

That's when a CFI smack you upside the head and says:

AVIATE

NAVIGATE

COMMUNICATE

Especially if her name is Gina, LOL

[TheyTookMyWoody]

Another great tutorial!

Do you plan on making new version of any other tutorials you've done in the past?

[FSX404]

Actually some of them yes, as helpful as some of these tutorials may be, a lot of them have "improper" terminology. There is a certain way a flight instructor teaches, terminology wise, as I start getting into my flight instructor training, I'll revise them and improve them to actually meet the FAA standards for teaching a flight lesson

I never really expected it to get this big, my channel I mean, but I'm glad you guys are actually paying attention to a crazy guy on youtube posting sim lessons

[FSX404]

But for now, I'm just replacing my early ones and adding some important info, I think I may have 2 or 3 to go, but I'll have some new stuff out too.

[jonthedoors]

Great stuff as always!

[MSFSX94]

Very helpful video!

I learned alot, like when to bring up the flaps and many things about the ground effect.

Have you allready seen my video?:)

5/5

[FSX404]

I saw a part of it, the beginning, and then my computer at work took a dump during the lunch, so I'll take a look at it when I get home. But I really like the checklist part and checking the controls, etc, very nice

[RedBravo65]

Well done again.  Always informative.

[Flyboy4500]

definatly another helpful vid! thanks a lot. how much more realistic are the carenado planes than the defaults?

[FSX404]

A lot more realistic, there are a few important maneuvers like slips and spins that default planes cant do.

They are also easier to fly (in a way, maybe because I'm used to the real thing), like the real planes are, because they are a lot more stable, like a real C-172 or 182.

Plus a lot of default planes are overly sensitive to the pitch. The default Mooney is a killer.

[whiskeyportal]

Very informative, thanks for posting

[FSX404]

Thank you

[02KAINE]

Another excellent tutorial "G" !

5 Stars of course.

[FSX404]

Thanks

[hairybearz]

nice tut. can you tell me the name runway field?

[FSX404]

This airport is

Crawleys South Prairie (02WA)

[WakeUpDummies]

Nice. I used to keep my 150 at a soft field of about 1500ft in length and and obstacle on one side. Great way to become proficient at soft field procedures.

[FSX404]

Was this the 150 that had an engine failure?

[WakeUpDummies]

@FSX404 Thankfully, no. It was a 1940 J-3 Cub.

[iflightsim]

Excellent video.

[FSX404]

Thanks