At the same time look up along the centreline to the trees on the horizon and keep looking there.Īt 20’ raise the nose slightly to arrest the sink, but not too much or you’ll climb again. This will disengage the autothrust automatically. On approach you’re looking at the start of the runway, the PAPIs (red and white lights on the side of the runway) and the large touchdown markers.Īs you approach the runway, say around 100’, you shift that focus to the 2nd set of markers after the threshold (piano keys) and fly there.Īt 30’, close the thrust levers to idle. Landing an aircraft is very dependent on where you are looking. It will take practice, but you will begin to nail it fairly quickly (and it’s very satisfying!). If you keep looking at the touchdown zone during touchdown you will get unstable landings (it’s harder to focus on a moving target afterall). I can’t stress enough how important it is to look toward the end of the runway during flare/touchdown, as this is the only real way to get a proper sense of how much you’re flare reduces the descent rate, resulting in a consistently smooth landing. Retard throttles when commanded to by the system.Keep looking towards the end of the runway, and at around 20ft, begin to flare gently whilst applying rudder if there’s a crosswind.At 100ft, look toward the end of the runway, but still maintain the constant descent rate (resist the urge to pitch up at this point!)

Keep your eyes on and ‘aim’ for the start of the runway/touch down zone (roughly where the four white/red PAPI lights are).

Ensure you have a correct approach/landing speed (usually somewhere in the region of 128-135knots).

You can keep it on for longer, or enable AP2 aswell for a Autoland sequence (only avail.

Personally, I use a CAT3 ILS approach, and disable it at around 1000ft to complete the approach and land manually.The FBW version of the A320 certainly does have far more realistic handling than the default A320, so I highly recommend it. (Use the “Development” version for the latest updates).

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