Nose smashes onto the ground

[papabear]

It is very hard to make a soft landing on the nosegear. After the main gear touches down, and you activate thrust reversers, spoilers and autobrakes, the nose just drops like a brick.
Even with full backpressure on the joystick...
My center of gravity was good, and I was not landing overweight at all.

This combined with a very bad nosegearsuspension, kind of breaks the experience.

[mari8it]

I encountered this behavior only in airports affected by fs2024 on final stuttering , maybe it is linked to this situation, because it don’t happens on smooth sceneries, I don’t know, maybe this info could help inibuilds team.

Edited October 20 by mari8it

[papabear]

For me the framerates are acceptable. Way better than the a330.
If you have bad FPS then you basically crashland every time, but this is not the case.
For me its just a bad tuning of the flight characteristics... But im not the expert here ofcourse

[Swisspilot1986]

many videos on Youtube show a hard front landing. Anyway all pitch attitudes should be tweaked as too sensitive.

[Farlis]

10 hours ago, papabear said:

It is very hard to make a soft landing on the nosegear. After the main gear touches down, and you activate thrust reversers, spoilers and autobrakes, the nose just drops like a brick.

That is because you are landing her wrong. You have to make a complete tripple touchdown before activating the reversers.

First the back wheels, then the front wheels then the nosegear and after that you activate the reversersers, not before. If you do activate them after the first touch down with the nose gear still in the air reversers will activate, the spoilers deploy, destroy all lift and the nose gear will slam down.

Edited October 20 by Farlis

[papabear]

What you just said makes no sense... I suggest you look at this... 

Spoilers and reversers deploy when the main gear touches. And then with almost no stick backpressure the nose gently drops. And in the inibuilds you have to pull the stick all away backwards and even then... controls are soo sensitive that the nose raises way to fast/ or if your speed is SLIGHTLY lower, your nose drops like a brick. With your landing technique, you will run out of runway one day.

[Farlis]

Sure what do I know?

You keep looking at videos, I'll be listening to A340 pilots who explained the technique. 

 

And then waste your time asking for a sofware fix instead of fixing your faulty landing technique. 

[papabear]

You just told to wait for reversers and spoilers untill after the nose gear touches. I think i will go and believe the 1000's of video's posted online instead 😉

[DeeJay]

Hard to make a triple landing if you can't feel neither hear the double touchdown of the main wheels in the inibuilds A340. They promised to improve that (no idea why it hasn't been modelled from the beginning like their A330 perfectly does), but so far, it still just makes "boom" a single time when landing the mains.

[Swisspilot1986]

The version 1.0.2 is coming. Let's see.

[CONVEEN]

By heavy wind  it can be It makes sense to engage reverse thrust when the front wheel has not yet touched down because there is a lot of wind under the wings?

[COT_87]

On 10/20/2025 at 9:12 PM, Farlis said:

That is because you are landing her wrong. You have to make a complete tripple touchdown before activating the reversers.

First the back wheels, then the front wheels then the nosegear and after that you activate the reversersers, not before. If you do activate them after the first touch down with the nose gear still in the air reversers will activate, the spoilers deploy, destroy all lift and the nose gear will slam down.

Rubbish. No matter how I land the 340, even with great fpm reading, the noise comes down very fast. Inibuilds needs to improve this 

[DeeJay]

I got the feeling that flying characteristics at landings have improved with the new version. Is it only an impression, because the sounds now support the double main gear touchdown a bit better? Or has something really been changed?

BTW: I've seen a video of a young new A340 first officer being trained by an experienced captain. The captain told him after landing: "That was a good one. You could also have engaged the thrust reversers directly after the first contact of the main wheels." And the FO answered: "Well, then the second touchdown is a little harder. That is why I've waited for the full main landing gear to touchdown." So, it can definitely be activated before the nose wheel touch the ground and that is seen pretty often. It's not an MD-80 where the reverse mechanism could be smashed by the runway surface by touching the runway on high pitch angles on the ground with those tail mounted engines.