Toughest landings?

[svennoj]

My two toughest landings so far were at Glise Fiord (CYGZ) and Lukia (VNLK)

Glise Fiord is not listed in the game but can be reached by heading North East from Pond inlet (CYIO). Finding it is not easy since the in game maps don't work that far north (it's the northern most airport in Canada). Once you find it, the strip is hard to see and pretty uneven, especially at the start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGCR8qqt1G4

Lukia is the closest airport to Mount Everest with an uphill short runway usually covered in fog. Glass cockpit to the rescue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGbzWHD5-H0

Where else is a mental challenge to stick a landing?

(Svalbard was also hard to find but quite easy to land at)

[Moga CMDR]

gratz on the adventuring. I still find St Barts hard in anything that isn't a GA craft. I don't think I properly landed there yet in this sim. I have bounced it, even with crash enabled. but I had stress systems off. So i prolly died.

its my fave location in any sim. Its beautiful, great music and I'd vacation there. Very hard to land at in a proper passenger craft.

[Leather]

What about Alert? Is that not the most northern airport? Or maybe that’s not part of Canada technically.

[svennoj]

Alert is a military airport, no passenger service there. These guys make it look so easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicy-osg8zs

[Moriendor]

The toughest landings are the landing challenges involving the A320neo and its ******** autothrust. I have managed every landing challenge (not exactly high scores on some but any landing you walk away... yada... yada...) but the A320neo drives me nuts with the autothrust that keeps engaging automatically even when I disengaged it manually moments before.

[Neo King Arthur]

I remember there was the Hong Kong Kai Tak approach in FSX that gets me sweating. I wonder if it's in here too...

[svennoj]

Ha yep that auto thrust. I had to land the 747 with the engines cut off because the throttle would get stuck at 100%. Just a big glider. There is a disarm auto thrust switch somewhere.

[Tabakbaum]

Originally posted by Moriendor:

The toughest landings are the landing challenges involving the A320neo and its ******** autothrust. I have managed every landing challenge (not exactly high scores on some but any landing you walk away... yada... yada...) but the A320neo drives me nuts with the autothrust that keeps engaging automatically even when I disengaged it manually moments before.

HAHA same here and i keep Screaming - YOOO WTF WHY TOGA!!!

[Kit]

Try UKUM

[svennoj]

Originally posted by Kit:

Try UKUM

Haha, nice tree at the end of the runway.

[ZombieHunter]

Chicago Midway is a straight in approach but it is surrounded by buildings and you have to drop the plane on the runway, hit the reversers and mash the brakes. In real life I've NEVER experienced a soft landing at Midway. If you overshoot or go too far down the runway you will run right off the end into a neighborhood street...which has happened in RL. Try and land or takeoff in anything larger than a 737 there and you will find out just how short the runways are. They are about 2000 feet shorter than most major airports. Combine that with the fact it sits smack in the middle of a neighborhood and that weather there in the winter can get nasty....and you have yourself one hell of a ride.

[Simrealism]

It makes me sad when he's dismissive of the warnings because the computer doesn't guess his intention.
Aviation accident history shows that when pilots get complacent and dismissive about warnings loss of life can occur.
Always respect your computer's attempts to save your life. Appreciate it and suppress the warming if necessary or possible when the warnings are spurious. Each time you dismiss a warning it strengthens the n-gram for the dismissal reaction.
No disrespect to the pilot. Not everyone knows everything.

[5n4k3d0cToR]

Original Hong-Kong airport was an interesting beast when in the fully-loaded A380...