Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation
Target for the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation
Up to 60fpm
Full marks for descent rate up to 60 fpm, and no note for a soft touchdown: a feather-light arrival is the right technique here.
- Vref reference
- 114ktat 51,256 kg
- Tail-strike limit
- 11°the category's
- Ideal touchdown zone
- 50 to 250mpast the threshold
- G-force
- 1.10Gfull marks, the category's curve
Stretched version of Lockheed's triple-tailed Constellation airliner with four Wright R-3350 radials, first flown in 1951, with 579 built including military versions.
Roundout scores this aircraft with the Vintage / Pre-1950 category's curves and touchdown-zone window. The figures it uses are below.
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
- Lockheed
- Model
- L-1049
- Variant
- Super Constellation
- FAA approach category
- B
- MTOW
- 62,370 kg (137,502 lbs)
- Vref in flight
- Adjusted to the weight you land at
- MSFS source
- Payware (Red Wing)
- Category
- Vintage / Pre-1950
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