KFLL Wet Runway Bouncing
Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 12:59 am
Today during two flights (one landing and one attempted takeoff) I experienced severe bouncing along both RWYs 28L and 28R. The landing on 28L was rather smooth but had some bounces including a rather severe one upon exiting the runway at J5, which registered on my VA PIREP as a -602 fpm landing. Later, I attempted a takeoff on 28R (with a different plane and after a reboot) and experienced repeated bounces to maybe 20ft AGL or so, which were registering on my PIREP as repeated -550 to -650 fpm landings until I aborted the flight.
Subsequent testing revealed that this persists despite several different terrain mesh resolution settings (10m, 5m and 2m), aircraft (payware and default) and different versions of SODE (1.70 and rollbacks to 1.68 and 1.66). I had used the scenery for several flights in March without issue, so I suspected a new version of something may have been the culprit.
Ultimately, I noticed it only seemed to be happening during rain, and after deactivating the "model.FLL_slipperyrwys" entry in ...\SODE\SimObjects\LatinVFR_KFLL\sim.cfg, the problem seems to have disappeared - I'm curious if anybody else can repeat this?
Subsequent testing revealed that this persists despite several different terrain mesh resolution settings (10m, 5m and 2m), aircraft (payware and default) and different versions of SODE (1.70 and rollbacks to 1.68 and 1.66). I had used the scenery for several flights in March without issue, so I suspected a new version of something may have been the culprit.
Ultimately, I noticed it only seemed to be happening during rain, and after deactivating the "model.FLL_slipperyrwys" entry in ...\SODE\SimObjects\LatinVFR_KFLL\sim.cfg, the problem seems to have disappeared - I'm curious if anybody else can repeat this?