I’ve recently started having trouble landing. Things seem to be fine during the rest of the flight, but when I go to flare I have to drastically trim the plane nose up, pull the yoke ALL the way back, and still struggle to keep the nose up as I get close to the ground.
I recalibrated the controller. It did seem a be off a bit and thought that would fix it, but I was still having issues. I played around with the controller sensitivity settings, but that hasn’t helped much either.
I first noticed it flying the Just Flight Arrow Turbo IV. I seemed to land it ok when I first got the plane, but thought maybe it was a behaviour of the T-tail, so i tried the Arrow III. I had the same issue with it.
I then went back to the C152 that I have flown a lot. It was a little better, but I still have to pull the yoke all the way back and barely kept the nose up.
I’m not the best pilot, but I don’t think this is all pilot error.
Anything I should look into settings wise? Or any other suggestions?
Tonight I’ll try getting setup for an approach farther out and make sure I’m set up as you mention, but that’s pretty much what I’ve been doing and haven’t had this issue before.
It feels like right when I start to flare it stops responding to the yoke and the only way to bring the nose up is to use the trim.
Trimming on an aircraft which doesn’t use the horizontal stabilizer for trimming, as in case of the 152, doesn’t change the pitch/elevator authority IRL at all.
In flightsims trimming usually does change the pitch/elevator authority, but not significant.
The flight model has changed with SU IV and you definitely need more elevator during the flare, but not much.
If I pull the yoke fully back on the 152 I’m not only getting the stall warning, I’m even managing to produce a tailstrike upon touchdown.
Another question is, how much are you trying to get the nose up during the flare.
Some people are giving the bad advice too pull the stick back as much as possible to ‘stall’ the aircraft onto the runway.
You just want the nosewheel to be in the air, so you touch down with the mains first.
Suggest to rename the community folder for testing. That way you can at least check if the 152 behaves correctly.
Another point is that it happened to me that a few aircraft after updating to SU IV were flying with the Legacy FDM, despite the fact that I never used it.
I had to switch to Legacy and back to Modern to get the correct FDMs back.
