5.41 All planes crash where they did not in FS95.

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FS98 is more sensitive. You didn't say which airplanes you were crashing. Your question indicated that you were in final approach at 140 kts. This is too fast for most prop. planes. The correct "Speed of decent", not "angle of attack" is almost zero. you can descend at 500 fpm to approach the airstrip and then "flare" at 5 to 20 ft, depending on the airplane to level flight. Reduce the throttle to slowly grease the field with your tires, kill the throttle, stick forward, unless its a taildragger, and reverse thrust and spoilers deployed if its a "heavy". Try turning off the "crash detect" feature in the Aircraft menu while your practicing and turn on the Landing analysis function in the Options-Flight Analysis menu to get an idea of how hard you are hitting. The landing analysis has to be reset each time. Actually anything under 500 fpm should hold together.

Not good but you can walk away from it. Practice, practice, practice. This is the most challenging part of flight training and needs constant retraining. I often wonder how those Space Shuttle pilots do it. Its a dead stick landing and they only get one chance and this is usually their first time doing it. They must spend a lot of time on a very good simulator. Probably costs more than $50.

Bob Fiedler