Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg
Target for the Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg
Up to 100fpm
Full marks for descent rate up to 100 fpm, and no note for a soft touchdown: a feather-light arrival is the right technique here.
- G-force
- 1.10Gfull marks, the category's curve
Not part of this aircraft's grade: an approach-speed target, a tail-strike check and a touchdown-zone window.
German rigid airship built by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, 245 m long and lifted by hydrogen, first flown in March 1936 and destroyed by fire while landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in May 1937.
Roundout scores this aircraft with the Hot Air Balloon category's curves. 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
- Luftschiffbau Zeppelin
- Model
- LZ 129
- Variant
- Hindenburg
- FAA approach category
- None
- MTOW
- 214,522 kg (472,939 lbs)
- Vref in flight
- Not used
- MSFS source
- Payware (Red Wing Simulations)
- Category
- Hot Air Balloon
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