Whether in real flight or flight simulation, the landing phase is basically considered the most difficult maneuver.

I discovered a nice Plugin/Addon that displays the vertical speed at touchdown and evaluates the landing operation, which is very helpful for practice. Here is an introduction.

First, regarding the installation method: download the old version from here or download the new version that supports 64-bit from here, and extract the files into the Resources/plugins directory under the main X-Plane directory.

Then, start X-Plane, open the Plugins menu, and enable the Landing Speed plugin. Afterward, every time you complete a landing, this plugin will automatically pop up a window showing the evaluation rating and the vertical touchdown speed. As shown in the image above, the result is “good landing,” with a vertical speed of 124 ft/min and 0.628 m/s. I flew several times, and every time was “Good.”

By the way, the evaluations are categorized as follows. Come and see what rating you can get: R.I.P. = rest in peace. Anybody Survived? = You are fired = Acceptable = hard landing = good landing = Excellent landing =

In addition, this plugin automatically generates a landing.log file in the main X-Plane directory, with the following content: Sun Sep 2 23:32:17 2012 N172SP RJTA ‘ATSUGI NAF’ 0.745 m/s 147 fpm good landing Sun Sep 2 23:37:13 2012 N172SP RJTA ‘ATSUGI NAF’ 0.515 m/s 101 fpm good landing Sun Sep 2 23:43:09 2012 N172SP RJTA ‘ATSUGI NAF’ 0.628 m/s 124 fpm good landing It is convenient for checking the history at any time.

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