What Module Aircraft is your Hardest to Land ?

For Me,

When using proper procedures the MiG-29 can be a mess. The full aft stick Flare is a beast with power pulled off. It normally results in some sweet skateboard tricks like a totally nar nar ollie followed by a sick railslide with lots of flames and junk. The good thing though, most of the mangled game jet is off to the side of the runway so the rest of the flight can land. No need to divert as briefed! But if I come in off mins and roll in fast and long... no prob.

That Bloody Mi8 is ditch maker for me.. Might as well have all the troops jump out and press their luck if I'm the pilot.. because if I go to land it.. well someone will need to bring a mop.

The MiG-21 if I'm landing at Mozdok due to the fact the game does not model brake fires ... All is well as I max out the ABS. But Landing at a field shorter than Mozdok... its done and dusted... bring TUG out to the far end of the runway because there is a MiG-21 stuck in the dirt!

The Trail Draggers ... it's a wrap from the start... I can't get down the runway to get them off the ground. If you see Bones on the runway in a tail dragger... you can bet the runway will be shutdown until they get the fire out.

For me it's the bloody Spitfire. How'd those Brits win any battles? Boneski, your responses made me laugh out loud.

Three sorties last night in the Su-25T on a multiplayer server. None of my fighter team mates wanted to provide top cover, so I was a magnet for a variety of A2A missiles. 3 takeoffs. 0 landings.

Hardest module to land for sure!

Ya, Spitfire was the hardest to learn to land. But once you figure out you have to be going under 100 mph, it isn't too bad. Then it's a bit of a dance with the wheel brakes to make sure you don't tip.

Huey is easy to land but difficult to land precisely. I do ok considering I don't have rudder pedals or an extended control stick.

The Harrier.. By a Mile. Explain? Well, alright then.

Granted ive only flown the Warthog.. with its Wide Trike Gear.. BEAUT to land. Love it. Im a hog pilot at heart.

The P51d Mustang.. Just as easy, its inclination and long nose issues are offset by the fact its a reverse trike, with a tail wheel. It puts down like butter. Infact, i fly the Trainer with video turned al the way up sometimes just to fly.

the FrogFoot.. easy. Its mushy, the gear area close in.. smaller wings.. still doesnt matter.

THE HARRIER.. omg. First, the sonoffagun has gull wings, short and stubby at that. So shes gotte be above 190 just for stable flight.

ITS FLAPS are computer run.. so you dont roast them off with nozzle changes. and when they come down they make the speed issue even worse.

Its Gear completely ruin its aerodynamicis.. noticeably.

Its Airbrake.. cany be deployed when the gear are out.. its part of the gear system.. great!

its CoM and CoL are designed for hovering.. so if you brake hard or you use nosewheel, you can flip the plane way before you would flip the mustang

ITS UNDERPOWERED FOR ANY TYPE OF LANDING.. SO.. They include a water tank so you can OVERPOWER the engine. meaning, you have about 30 seconds worth of water before you CANT hover land.. or safely land for that matter. So if you are going to VTOL.. not only do you have to be really good at it, you gotta do it in a short time frame. against the wind.

thats another thing.. cross winds? nope.. hang it up for the day. especially if you got a heavy wing load.

dont get me wrong i LOVE it.. there nothing better in this game than helicopter hunting in the Harrier.. but you gon' learn ta-day

The reason I think the huey is so hard is your supposed to come to a hover around 5 ft agl 0 airspeed then gently lower the collective so it takes a minute to land iirc that’s when things go wrong

AV-8B VTOL for sure

TF-51 and any tail dragger.

I do not know why, why I cannot T/O or land any tail dragger in DCS. On T/O of TF-51 the aircraft veers to side and does not respond to rudder yaw. On any attempt to land, slight application of wheel brake flips the aircraft.

The Spit or the 109 - first time I landed the Spit it was perfect, and I've never managed to do it again without some mishap or other. T/O is fairly simple, remember to hold the stick back to lock the tailwheel and if you have rudder pedals ( if you don't, boy are you masochistic flying those things ) disable that takeoff "help", it really doesn't help.

The Viggen is probably the one I wrestle with most out of the jets, it gets really unwieldy when it's on the edge of stalling & if you want to short-land it that's where you have to be - it's not exactly hard, it's probably the most awkward though. The Harrier is a dream, super easy.

The reason I think the huey is so hard is your supposed to come to a hover around 5 ft agl 0 airspeed then gently lower the collective so it takes a minute to land iirc that’s when things go wrong

The Spit for me - can be quite challenging.

Mig 21 is probably the hardest for me to consistently grease a landing on followed closely by the Gazelle. I can land it fine, precisely is another thing entirely.

The Spit or the 109 - first time I landed the Spit it was perfect, and I've never managed to do it again without some mishap or other. T/O is fairly simple, remember to hold the stick back to lock the tailwheel and if you have rudder pedals ( if you don't, boy are you masochistic flying those things ) disable that takeoff "help", it really doesn't help.

You can't lock the tail wheel on the Spit — it's free-castoring all the way down the runway. Makes for some interesting take-offs to be sure since the rocket pendulum effect is present in full force. :D

The I-16 is even worse since it's the roughly the length of a shrivelled cucumber and doesn't even get the minimal lateral stability that a longer body would provide.

I still have most trouble with the MiG-29. It bounces about 20 meters every time. I jsut can't fly that by the numbers it seems.

I don't know why everyone's saying AV8B unless they're trying to land way overweight. I find S/VTOL to be a piece of cake. Far less complicated than a good case 3.

The F-16 at Novorossik. You need to be pretty spot on or you run out of runway quick.

Mig 21

#1: F-5 Tiger II, due to high angle of attack during approach and its sensitivity to quickly decreasing lift with decreasing airspeed, and "delayed" RPM changes

#2: MiG-29, due to its - obvious - bug with the inverted ground effect

No problems with AJS-37, F-14, F-16, L-39, F-15, Su-27, Su-33, A-10A.

The Huey, you don't want to be anywhere near me :)

For me the Spitfire.

what problems do you have with the spitfire?

Used to be the Mig-21, but that became easier to handle over many patches.

Now I'd say it's the Spitfire. If you don't grease it in very close to stall speed you will ground loop every time.

My hardest is the HUEY...wants to stay high, stay high, stay high, then the bottom drops out...

My main mistake with Huey was not getting low enough while still having some speed - so I had to then descent almost on the spot, which was a recipe for problems.

Used to be the Mig-21, but that became easier to handle over many patches...

Or maybe it became easier with more practice?