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Maroochydore/Sunshine Coast Virgin 737 Langing FSX

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Uploaded by on Sep 26, 2008

Overland 737-700 painted in Virgin's Blue colours, celebrating the 50th Boeing to the fleet. The approach is completely un-automated and although the touchdown is hard, it is alright. This airport is my local airport and touchdowns here are often hard especially when there is a crosswind.

Just the other day a Jetstar A320 misjudged the wind and made a very hard touchdown.

I will be posting a video of this landing for real.

Q: Why do so many pilots achieve hard landings at YBMC?

Well the runway for jets is 18/36 and the dominant wind comes from the ocean (90) which means that there is often a crosswind.

Also the runway is slightly too narrow for jets, but a allowance was made, and the runway is very short compared to others used by the 737 and A320 and so pilots often just try and put the plane on the runway as fast as possible.

Most pilots don't allow for these factors and so have hard landings.

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  • is there a button on the keyboard that does reverse thrusts on all the engines instead of me having to use reverse thrusts manually while landing

  • Page Down does reverse thrusts on all engines.

  • Does it have an FMC? I like the autopilot in the defaul planes better, just simple flying :D

  • No FMC. Same as the standard autopilot.

  • You are running FSX on lowest graphic performance? and what screen capture program are you using?

  • Yea, I am running them on low, my 256mb graphics card struggles otherwise. I use fraps.

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  • you can not fly

    

  • jesus CHRIST RIP headphone users.....

  • whered u get the repaint from?

  • @Finelite05, yes..hold down F2 :)

  • i love keane !!!! haha !

  • is this a downloaded plane if so can i have a link?

  • or you can also hold the F2 key and it instantly revers thrusts all the engines

  • where you get the 737

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