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Takeoff and Landing
You can rotate around 150 kt when the aircraft is light, 180 kt when heavily loaded. Be somewhat gentle on the stick if you rotate early, as you otherwise might tail-scrape.
There is no fixed landing speed, somewhere between 145 and 175 kt depending on payload. Landing is to be performed by controlling the Angle of Attack. A little AoA bracket will appear down in the HUD, keep the flight path indicator inside the bracket. The top of the bracket is 11 and bottom is 15 deg AoA, the optimum 13 deg AoA is in the middle. To help achieve and maintain that high AoA extend the speedbrakes. This also helps keeping a three degrees approach path. Notice that it can be hard to see the touchdown point when landing with that high AoA, raising the seat with key u will help. Touch down with throttle closed.
If the runway is wet, icy or short use the dragchute (if installed, key o) or hook if the runway has arrestor cables.
See Localizer in HUD.
The hook is toggled with key CTRL-h or the cockpit control.
Make sure all three wheels are on the runway when you catch the wire. And also throttle in idle. Maximum 150-160 kt. Brakes off and try to hit the cable in the center.
Maximum recommended speed for deployment is 170 KIAS. Keys are o to deploy, and O to detach.
Note that not all variants have a dragchute as it depends on selected liveries.