5 years ago, I introduced the X-Plane Landing Speed Plugin for displaying and evaluating landing speeds, but this plugin hasn’t been updated for a long time, so I haven’t installed it on X-Plane 11. Recently, I discovered this XTouchDownRecorder V5, which has more functions, including:

• Touchdown time recording
• Recording Descent rate, fuselage attitude, G-force, touchdown speed
• Landing log
• Automatically pops up window during taxiing after landing
• Configurable hotkeys And so on. Here is a brief introduction.

The installation method is very simple. Download the compressed package from the webpage above and unzip it, then copy the XTouchDownRecorder directory to X-Plane 11\Resources\plugins.

Start XP11 and you will see XTouchDownRecorder appear in the Plugin menu. Press SHOW/HIDE to display the recording window. However, during my test, I found that XTouchDownRecorder did not automatically pop up the window after landing, which is a bit of a pity.

Let’s look at its display window again. There is a lot of data, and it looks not very clear. It seems the green line is the Descent rate, the blue line is speed, the orange line is Elevator control, the gray line is Pitch, and the red is Altitude. During the test, I drifted a bit when pulling up, please excuse the poor demonstration.

This plugin also records the landing data just now in XTouchDownRecorderLog.txt, Tue Sep 19 06:38:42 2017 [C172][N172SP] RJTT Tokyo Haneda Intl 0.06fpm 1.06G 3.44Degree 0.24knots| I’m not sure what the last 0.24knots data represents.

XTouchDownRecorder is quite good and can be used to strengthen landing practice. However, it displays a bit too much data, so it feels less intuitive than X-Plane Landing Speed.