Airbus A350-900
Target for the Airbus A350-900
60 to 120fpm
Full marks for descent rate up to 120 fpm; under 60 fpm the coach says the touchdown was softer than this aircraft is normally flown.
- Vref reference
- 140ktat 205,000 kg
- Tail-strike limit
- 10°this aircraft's own
- Ideal touchdown zone
- 300 to 700mpast the threshold
- G-force
- 1.10Gfull marks, its own curve
The A350-900 is Airbus's modern wide-body, the airframe most likely to behave correctly out of the box in MSFS payware. Composite wing, fly-by-wire, and an approach feel pilots describe as 'genuinely easy' once configured. The challenge is restraint: it's so well-mannered that it rewards small inputs and punishes large ones.
Landing technique.
Vapp shown on PFD includes GS mini, fly it directly.
Idle thrust at 30 ft, flare and hold. Same Airbus playbook as the rest of the family.
The aircraft is shockingly quiet in the flare. Don't let the lack of engine noise mask a high sink rate.
Reverse thrust to 80 kt, then taper. Auto-brake medium for normal landings.
Crab approach + de-crab at flare; wing-down is not an option with the engine clearance.
Common mistakes.
Over-reliance on automation in the flare, the auto-thrust hands off, but pilots sometimes don't realize and let the aircraft float.
Side-stick PIO on touchdown, same FBW caveat as the rest of the Airbus family.
Late configuration leading to high-speed final.
How its touchdown is scored.
The score at each point of its curves. Between the points, scores fall in a straight line; the full method is in the scoring methodology.
No shared landings or board for this aircraft yet. Its figures appear once pilots with a public profile have shared 5 graded landings in it, and a board once at least 5 opted-in pilots have flown it 10 or more times each. See the boards there are.
For reference.
Aircraft data
- Manufacturer
- Airbus
- Model
- A350
- Variant
- -900
- FAA approach category
- C
- MTOW
- 280,000 kg (617,294 lbs)
- Vref in flight
- Adjusted to the weight you land at
- MSFS source
- Payware (iniBuilds)
- Category
- Wide-Body Twin Airliner
Roundout recognizes it in a title that contains
Airbus A350-900A350-900A350 -900A359
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