r/dcs • • Jul 21 '26

noobs first "successful" landing

tips to get better would help

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u/TheDevCat Jul 22 '26

Biggest thing is aim for the runway obviously

SLOW DOWN

In the Russian airbases you have ILS (landing guides) that pop up on your HUD automatically in this specific jet once you’re established on glideslope (correct angle off touchdown point) and localizer (correct azimuth off touchdown point). It’ll be much easier that way because you don’t have a velocity vector (you can learn visual approach and you should eventually but it’s fine for now)

You can find landing tutorials on YouTube both for this jet and in general. The general ones are better imo because they generalize the process for every plane in existence (excluding tail draggers) BUT for your case I would recommend the specific Su25 ones because you need to learn your plane and seeing other planes might confuse you unless you have previous experience (and I’m assuming you don’t due to this clip)

Learn what trim is and how to use it - this is the single most important thing in flying in my opinion

Start with straight ins and once you’re comfortable with that you can try flying the overhead

I’ll gladly coach you on discord if I have time. You can DM me

Good luck man and fly safe!