Please help with a few missions (long)

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Originally Posted by DaveE30

Landing in Realistic is easier than in Arcade? When I played the tutorial in Realistic, it took me 6 tries before I could land successfully, and even then it was a rough landing. I guess I need to slow down a lot. So your throttle still going when you touch down?

Yeah! I mean it's harder in the sense you need to get used to how the plane acts under stress and etc, the controls are much more touchy but (and this is from my experience not actual game knowledge) it seems arcade is designed to be faster paced, the planes move faster, accelerate faster, etc etc; Heres my approach to airfields:

As I said earlier, fly-over and lineup, then fly out till your about 8-10 k/m away and about turn, as the airfield comes into view reduce throttle to 40% till your speed hits 120 mph, you should still be level at this point. As you become about 2-3 k/m from the field and you have it in plain sight, drop gear and slowly decrease your alt and throttle till your speed is 100 mph and your lined up, just slightly above the ground. Just before you get to the start of the field, drop throttle to 0% and maintain only the smallest possible amount of height from the ground, let your plane touch-down by itself when it cant maintain alt anymore. Ideally this should be at 80 mph.