A320 landing "G" factor
I have recently started analyzing the smoothness of my landings and the pitch at which I touchdown, primarily to cross check if the pitch values that I perceive I'm landing at is anywhere close to the actual aircraft pitch. From what I have inferred from various threads on this forum, it is the VRTA value in the S3 row of the load factor report, that gives you the g loads at the time of landing.On analyzing some of my recent landings I was surprised to note sometimes the landings which I felt were incredibly smooth and were duly appreciated by the captain, in fact carried a 'g value' several echelons above landings which I perceived to be not so on the smooth side.
Is it that the g values are prone to discrepancies to a certain extent or am I missing some part of the larger picture? And secondly there's a row of values below the s3 line which have their label as s4. What do the terms s3 and s4 refer to?
Last edited by Bkdoss; 30th April 2015 at 11:15.