Planes slowing down too fast on Runway

My guess is that since you sit in front of your computer you don't feel the effects of rapid decceleration, so you apply full brakes and reverse (something that airline pilots would only do in emergency).

But that's what I also heard: landings are a lot easier in FS than in real life. On the other hand I hear FS makes maintaing level flight more difficult than it actually is.

cumpaniciu_one wrote:

My guess is that since you sit in front of your computer you don't feel the effects of rapid decceleration, so you apply full brakes and reverse (something that airline pilots would only do in emergency).

But that's what I also heard: landings are a lot easier in FS than in real life. On the other hand I hear FS makes maintaing level flight more difficult than it actually is.

I think that is partly true but if you are using an addon plane and the autobrakes, then you are probably going to have to change the power of the autobrakes in the config file - they're normally very weak. Once you have the correct power of autobrakes and spoilers, then you should be stopping quickly depending on the autobrake setting.

Jon,

He means otherwise.In real life, planes take a long time to slow down while in FS it slows down quickly.....

to_coolguys wrote:

Jon,

He means otherwise.In real life, planes take a long time to slow down while in FS it slows down quickly.....

Thanks to_coolguys, I wasn't paying attention.

In that case, look at the config file and look at the autobrake setting, or it may be that you have the autobrakes (if you are using them) set to too high. For good weather conditions and clear runway, you only need a setting of 1.

I think it depends on the model. Those produced by PMDG, Level D and Captin Sim, to mention a few, do not exhibit the problem.

you're probably right about the max brakes. I have a brake button on my joystick, it's probably too strong when I click it. I noticed that if I "only" use reverse thrust, the decelleration is much more realistic and slows down at a normal rate.

When I land I usually applay autobrakes depending on the weather, and how good my approach is, i.e. when I'm too fast on a bad weather I apply Autobrakes to MAX. But on good day it's only 1 or sometimes 0 if the runway is long.