Bumpy runways and bouncing discussion

[D-Daze]

On 7/7/2026 at 6:02 PM, Gavrick said:

It is quite challenging to find sources describing the behavior of shock absorber struts.

At present, the shock struts are "by default" tuned to absorb energy during landings with a high flare — and the aircraft "dropping" from a height of several tens of centimeters (roughly one foot). In this scenario, they will absorb the impact energy and reach full compression.

This represents the "reference behavior" of the landing gear suspension as a whole, in the absence of other data (which, as I noted, are seldom available).

Therefore, if you happen to have any materials — documents or videos clearly showing the shock absorber operation — I would be very interested to review them.

I don't think it's s a compression issue.  It's the rebound effect.  The rebound once the aircraft has touched down is way too strong. Even with very little compression, coming in at a near straight on approach, the aircraft wants to bounce.  That's been my experience with every aircraft.  Maybe I suck at landing.  Lol Been playing since CFS1 though and never had bounce issues.

[Jade_Monkey]

Lol everyone having bounce issues, even at takeoff, and all of a sudden people are convincing themselves it's their own fault 🤣.

Clearly there is a middle ground where it can be both.