JS41Flyer Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 Thank you Orbx. A great scenery addition to Xplane 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymondgoubet Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Nice. But the bottom of the runway where it is less steep is not long enough, unlike in real life: watch this video, and compare from 00:20 seconds with your X Plane addon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGN3XA2Mxfs and here from 04:35: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I18EWPVvjM4 We can see that in real life the less steep area goes beyond the 2 "piano keys". Below, I am flying in the FSX addon by a French addon company, and look from 12:10 when I land: same as in real life : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBeT37kdMvc Raymond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS41Flyer Posted October 18, 2019 Author Share Posted October 18, 2019 Hi Raymond, Yes you are right the bottom is less steep than in reality. Thanks for pointing this out, and I enjoyed checking out your links. Nonetheless the scenery still captures the core of the challenges that Courchevel has, and for now remains one of my all time favorites. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymondgoubet Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 3 hours ago, JS41Flyer said: Hi Raymond, Yes you are right the bottom is less steep than in reality. Hi JS41Flyer, Not really... In reality, the less steep bottom part is much much longer than in this Orbx scenery. In this scenery there is an almost flat bottom that is far shorter than in real life, and too short to touch down on it. Thus, you have to touch down on the steep bit further up, almost 19%, but then this is far too steep for this... That is why in real life, they have a long bottom part that is not so steep, where they can touch down, then the steeper part helps the plane to slow down. They had good reasons to build it this way. I don't know why in the Orbx scenery the runway is wrong; the Courchevel runway is the ESSENTIAL part of this location, the rest is nice, but just eye candy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS41Flyer Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 Hi Raymond, I didn't understand your response above....until I read my initial reply....sorry my mistake, that was not what I intended to say....I'll try again....Yes the flat part of the runway is much shorter than in real life, by quite a significant margin...the slope in the scenery starts before it should. In real life not sure if the slope starting this early would make it too dangerous to land on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymondgoubet Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 8 hours ago, JS41Flyer said: Hi Raymond, I didn't understand your response above....until I read my initial reply....sorry my mistake, that was not what I intended to say....I'll try again....Yes the flat part of the runway is much shorter than in real life, by quite a significant margin...the slope in the scenery starts before it should. In real life not sure if the slope starting this early would make it too dangerous to land on? Hi JS41Flyer, Yes, it would make it more difficult for sure, and dangerous. Reasons are obvious: at nearly 20%, we have to land almost climbing, so the speed would need to be maintained with enough power, and the flare is even steeper to avoid touching the nose wheel first! That is why in real life they have a long enough flat part first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradB Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Excellent video Sir !! . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS41Flyer Posted December 15, 2019 Author Share Posted December 15, 2019 Hi BradB, thank you....I see Meribel is now available as a DLC for this scenery...might just give it a go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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