does anyone else experience this?..ok down to final on as soon as the aircrafts especially small airliners main gear touches the run way the aircraft is jolted to the opposite side of the crosswind. to the point one of the main gear is lifted making the wing to touch the ground. If its my incompetency kindly guide me how to safely land if not i thing its a bug…
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What are the winds like? And did you calibrate your device before landing?
roughly between 16 and above the aircraft kinda behaves the same and yeah its always calibrated… experience this when main gear immediately touches the ground
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Sorta sounds like you are landing in a bit of a crosswind? If so; are you maintaining rudder input until slowed and aligned on center line?
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i use rudder immediately on touch down, should i start before i just maintain centerline using yaw
Ah I can almost grantee this is your issue. Use rudder all the way in for sure during landing. Once the aircraft is nicely settled and slowed enough where you aren’t generating any lift you can safely relax that thumb! 🫡
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See if you can land without a crosswind.
Hi there,
These videos should help you understand the pb and get your crosswind landings better :
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landing without crosswinds is easy for issue is ,crosswinds above 16kts
nah i maintain centerline using yaw
Thanks tep
Allerons into the wind rudders away from the wind that should help you keep centerline and the gears just hold the yoke or side stick up to keep the gear from smashing into the ground and make the mechanics angry at you
Welcome to the community!
It really helps to use short final mode in solo and practice many repetitions, starting with no wind and gradually increasing the crosswind. Rehearsing in your mind each time the control inputs just before you have to use them (which involves estimating how much input):
And watching good technique examples such as in @Tep_NEMO 's links cannot be overemphasized. What you have just seen with your own eyes is easier to imitate than a description (using both is ideal). I’m always relearning this fact.
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basically i tested the same issue on some other different simulators(xplane11, and aerofly fs global )and i’m able to handle the situation quite perfectly with no dramatic jolting like infinite flight i think the sim is exaggerating the crosswind effect
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Infinite flight should check into the issue
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I don’t have a problem with even strong crosswinds in IF, as long as my practice is fairly current.
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Maybe it is worth trying to find a better sensitivity setting? I personnaly find I’d need one setting per plane to be fully happy, which is a bit annoying…
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By “small airliners,” what do you mean? CRJs? E- jets?
The following you have to be very careful with in a crosswind as it can easily cause you to go off to the side of the runway.
I assume for the above you mean when the nosewheel is down, steering for the centerline (as if not in a crosswind) rather than still compensating for the wind by the time the nosewheel comes down?
The rudder controls have to be neutral as your nose wheel makes contact.
You say main gear but have you released your rudder control before the nose gear comes down?
seems to involve a crosswind, i would recommend being at an angle that you maintain flying forward with the crosswind and use rudder input to align to the runway when you are about to touchdown.
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