Originally Posted by
Check Airman
Sorry. Unfamiliar with that terminology on this side of the ocean.
OP, don’t worry too much about landing the simulator. The airplane doesn’t handle like the simulator. On top of that, your depth perception etc will be off. Just aim for somewhere roughly in the touchdown zone, and that’ll be good enough for the simulator.
Thanks for admitting that ! Nobody will say it very openly, as it could question the zero flight time training policy.
In the end my only problem lies with the simulator figures. My instructors, including the higher ranked ones that will supervise us just before and during the test, will rely on that figure and won't be happy if my figures are outside the TDZ (given the 200m problem, it's more likely that I will fall short of the 300m figure rather than the opposite).
So having some concrete figures in mind may prove useful in the future.
If I touchdown as the 600m mark disappear under the nose, the touchdown will have occured at 535m. That's a geometric fact.
However, sometimes the 600 mark disappear under the nose just after I touchdown, and the instructor comes up with a touchdown distance of 290m. That figure comes from who-knows-where.