This plane is flown with a certain AoA NOT a certain speed. In all that practice, do not look at the airspeed. If you are comfortable in doing this in level flight, now practice to establish a balanced and controlled decent at say 3° downward slope. As there is a slight delay, its best to add the power just before banking and reducing it just before roll out to avoid ballooning. ![]() You will need to add power to maintain altitude, as once you bank you need more LIFT aka more speed at the desired AoA. Once you are good at straight and level add some turns. Keep in mind that due to the AoA onspeed your main control for climb/sink is throttle NOT pitch. Practise this first in straight and level flight until you are good at maintaining alt and onspeed AoA. Once you are roughly established in a balance, trim pitch up and reduce/add throttle as necessary to keep the flight director in the E-bracket. This means while deaccelation takes place, you need to add power - more than you first think - to avoid the plane pitching down. Additionally the FCS doesnt automatically trim the plane for the desired AoA in the E-Bracket. But be aware that with deacceleration the pitch up quickly turns to a pitch down and so you might get behind the power curve. Keep the flight director on the horizon line with stick inputs till the speed bleeds away. What usually happens when you come back from a mission, enter the pattern and throw out gear and flaps is that you get a pitch up moment during deaccelaration as the FCS switches to onspeed AoA mode and tries to control the plane to that AoA, but your speed is still above the proper AoA speed and so plane pitches up. In the TO/Landing config with gear and flaps down the plane tries to maintain a certain AoA and wants to fly “onspeed” for that. The F/A-18 uses a Fly by wire or FCS (Flight control systems) that switches its behavior when you configure the plane from TO/LD config to normal flight and back. A little more explanation might help you. About this, can you advice me how to practice about a correct turn at a constant angle? With a free fly I do not have references to understand how good or bad I was (or maybe I just do know where to look). The problem is that I do not bank at the correct angle throughout the turn. I do a 30-degree bank while maintaining the Velocity Vector and the E bracket just below the horizon line, but normally I'm not aligned to the runway. The most difficult part of the shore VFR landing (for me) is the final approach. It's not specific to landing, but about turning about a correct angle. But how small should be the small movements? Few RPM? Sometime to stabilize (and keep the fly path) I need to do something that I would call medium movements (I can clearly hear the different engine sound), and progressively reduce to small movements. Out of interest, are you breaking after 1nm or 2nm?Īs you have already recommended, I should never stop moving the throttle back and forth with small movements. You should be able to bank the jet, take your hand off the stick and it will turn very smoothly to line up on the carrier (assuming you're flying the correct CASE 1 pattern) Edited Apby BoneDust Once you hit the correct speed the AOA will be steady and the aircraft very stable and easy to fly. Never stop moving the throttle back and forth small movements. ![]() Get your speed down to around 145 or so and trim the jet to keep the E bracket centered and increase or decrease your speed about 5kts at a time until the aircraft stabilizes. I'm not sure what weight your at but I'll assume 34,000lbs or slightly below. You can literally take your hand off the stick and throttle fly. If you are trimmed properly and have the correct speed the Hornet pretty much stays on AOA with constant minor throttle movement. The lighter you are the lower your speed. You AC weight will determine your approach speed. Check your weight which is shown about halfway down the checklist. Bring up the checklist on the DDI (it appears in the top right, if not hit the menu button again and you'll see it). If you're gaining altitude you're probably going to fast. I do not use pitch, only pitch trim and throttle, but despite the command order, it's very slow to "stabilize" and I gain altitude. When I put down the landing gear and set the flaps to full the F/A-18C climb a lot and I find difficult to control it and stay at a specific altitude. I'm practicing with landing training and I have a question. ![]() The F/A-18C is my first module, and in general my first experience with a simulator.
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