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Approach Pitch Low

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The approach pitch appears to be low. It should be around 7 degrees on a 3 degree slope with flaps 33. This is from the manual and landing geometry.
 

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Edited by G550flyer
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Yes agreed.
The L1011 had a noticeably high nose attitude while landing, substantially different from most other airliners.

This thread from PPRUNE lists exactly what you say, it should be maintaining 7 degrees nose up and a normal flare would be to 10 degrees.
13 degrees is the attitude to strike the tail.

"On the L1011, the normal deck angle is 7 degrees during the approach and ten degrees in the flare, and any more than 13 degrees and the risk of a tailscrape is apparent."

https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/9509-tristar-flare.html

It was one of the things I was most looking forward to with the Ini L1011 along with DLC simulation as landing this airplane is just very different to almost every other airliner where at 10 degrees nose up you're smacking the tail on the runway!

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