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Originally Posted by Raven Morpheus
Hmm, OK so I'm probably coming in too slow.
I think was at about 100-120 mph when I tried this last night - I thought that was about right, how much faster do I have to be?
I seem to be generally having problems with landing anything but a F4U, Dauntless or PBN (PBN's are easy, you can even cut the engines mid flight and just let it fall out of the sky!) because I tried a BF109 last night also and got it to the ground but dug the nose or something in.
I wish I could find some way of easily identifying the airfields (especially one's without proper runways) and the distance I am from them, then I suppose I could work out how far I need to be away to drop 1000ft in a proper glide path before I'm too low or I've overshot the runway (although a method of actually working that out eludes me at this time).
I tend to drop quite quickly in what I guess is a steep short "glide path" and end up either being too slow (and things like with the Mosquito happen) or I overshoot, either way it results in a crash.
I've got carrier landings down so that about two thirds of the time I get it right with the Dauntless/F4U and on land based airstrips/airfields I'm about the same with those planes also, so I seem to be much better at landing the PF aircraft.
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Most of the carrier aircraft have much lower stall speeds. Land based aircraft tend to have higher stall speeds and fewer compromises in other performance as a result.
Definitely increase your approach speed. It's relatively alright to touch down at slightly above the stall speed with a land based aircraft. Not too fast obviously but my speed is usually just under 200kph which is 110kts(ish).
Kittle is right that a steeper approach and a quick finish can work fairly well. My approaches tend to be too fast so I will sometimes use a rudder skid to kill off some excess energy but once I do that then I keep the throttle between 20-40% and slowly go to landing flaps just as I approach the field. Maybe 10 seconds before.
I tend to eyeball it these days and it works fairly well for me. I'd be a by the numbers guy if it was my own life in my hands but by now I instinctively know whats required no matter what plane. The odd time I still nose it over and blow it up
