737-800 landing flare

[philyare1]

I'm struggling to perfecting my landing techinque in FSX in the 737 when I disengage the autopilot on the ILS approach. At 100 feet I switch it off but this throws the aircraft up about 5-10 degrees and I am unable to smoothly touch down and flare the nose up 3 degrees because of this

my realism settings are on 50%

can anyone help

[Jonathan12341234]

Simply disengage the autopilot at a thousand feet instead and land manually

[magnulicious]

I'm not sure this is the problem, but perhaps you forget to adjust pitch down after takeoff and engaging the autopilot? Make sure the aircraft stick/joystick is not pulled back or the aircraft will pull up, as that's how you left it after engaging the autopilot after takeoff. Hope this is your problem and solution. Also, disengage the autopilot at lest 3 miles before landing, that will give you some time to adjust any errors etc. Good luck!

[mikeandpatty]

I doubt if it is the autopilot; they normally trim the airplane as required (speed change, configuration change, etc).

Are you lowering flaps or changing power rapidly as you disengage? - the AP may not have trimmed in time if you do that

[ricardo_NY1]

I'm pretty certain it is a software vs hardware input situation.............sort of like not having a motorized throttle quadrant. With the AP engaged, different control inputs are being applied or maintained which are not matched with your static hardware device. An example of this would be having the throttle lever of whatever quadrant you use at idle position with A/T engaged to maintain a particular airspeed. If the simulator has the levers or power setting at close to full power and you disconnect the A/T, the slightest twitch of your throttle lever will instantly cut the power back to idle and it will not be done smoothly. It will be instantaneous. That is my best comparison to why you experience the sudden change in pitch, and probably the most likely.

[philyare1]

no at that moment the aircraft is fully prep for landing and all i'm doing is watching the airspeed- i've took magnulicious suggestion and just switched it off earlier and then fought a bit to stabilise but the extra time allows me to get back to a 3 degree pitch.

problem solved but still a bit odd!