5.8 How do I land the Lear using the autopilot?
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I JUST TRIED LANDING THE LEAR IN A X-WIND AT LOGAN 4R WITH ILS AUTO-PILOT TURNED ON- - IT WORKED GREAT UNTIL I TOUCHED DOWN. THE PLANE BOUNCED BACK UP IN THE AIR APPROX. 200 FEET--THOUGH THE ENGINES WERE AT IDLE, AND I COULDN'T REVERSE THRUST OR DO ANYTHING TO KEEP IT ON THE GROUND-- UNTIL IT STALLED AND CRASHED AT THE END OF THE RUNWAY. AM I SUPPOSED TO KILL THE AP AS SOON AS I REACH THE APPROACH PLATE? I DON'T HAVE THAT MANY HANDS.
How long is the loading? If it is long loading, it will sometimes do that as the auto-pilot tries to correct for what it perceives as changes. Then its Not really a bug. The faster the computer the less of a problem. A P- 90 kinda slow on these days standards. Also you must disconnect the A/P before the landing. An ILS system was never intended to land the plane. You have to have cat 3 gear/rating ect to do that. That would be your autoland in say a Boeing. Only certain airports support cat 3 landings. ILS is just designed to guide you to the runway. You must manually land the plane. If you bounce, that means you were a little fast at touchdown. You want to have the speed bled off at touchdown to avoid bounces and gain control of the plane on the ground. The stall horn will be close to or be going off at touchdown.
MK
I've also found that the trim may be set rather badly by the
autopilot just to maintain the glide slope. This is caused by low
power settings and not enough flaps. If you disconnect the autopilot
at the time of flare out, all sort of bad things can happen. If you
had autothrottle controlling the throttle, control returns to where
ever your throttle is set. This may increase the throttle just when
you want to cut it. If the trim is set to up-ailerons the plane will
jump up and miss the runway all together. So, be sure the throttle is
fully retarded before disconnecting the autopilot. The x key
disconnects the autopilot, not too many fingers involved. >>It
sounds like you may be flying with keyboard control (no stick or
yoke). This makes landing very tough anyway, let alone crosswind
landings. I've had a lot of ILS landings where the plane flared and
everything. I don't run surface crosswinds if I have a choice.
Practice, practice, practice and upgrade!
Bob Fiedler
If you hit "shift +/" it arms the spoilers so you don't have to
deploy them yourself.
Aaron
