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Post by Scott Anderson on Dec 25, 2013 11:33:31 GMT -5
Isn't the name of the section in Flying magazine? Well, I don't see this kind of thing on here often, so I thought it was as good a time as any to admit to my own experience yesterday... Making the landing at Juneau yesterday, after two missed approaches, I ground-looped the 247 and ran off the edge of the runway and got stuck. After waiting for what seemed like forever for a tractor to pull me out, I spent the next half-hour making more approaches, two touch-and-go's and two full-stop landings, just to prove to myself that I'm not quite as bad as I thought I was...  |
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Post by Allen Peterson on Dec 25, 2013 14:43:31 GMT -5
Well, OK, Scott, I'd better 'fess up too.
According to Flying magazine, my landing at Fairbanks would have been classified as an accident, probably with 5-6 "suits".
All was going well approaching PAFA and according to the winds I wanted to land on 19. I don't normally use ATC, and lately The ATC screen has been closing just as the tower was giving me landing instruction. But I thought that PAFA would be busy so I'd gave it a try.
Well, the tower gave me clearance to land on 01, enter right downwind! Blast. OK, set up approach speed, turn downwind. Looking good. About ready to turn base the tower says I'm cleared to land, follow the Cessna in. OK, there he is, ease out a little to give him some room. OK, on final, speed a little high, but the runway is long. Looking good, nice flare and... WHAT??? I'm SURE I put the gear down! Ruined my day.
I left the old girl there for repairs and fired up The 247-D Racer for my flight to OZ. Grumble, grumble, grumble...
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Post by louross on Dec 26, 2013 14:09:17 GMT -5
Well. okay.  I never actually forgot to lower the gear, but there were a few times that i moved the gear switch on the controller, but didn't actually comfirm the lights, and the gear never went down. Once I took off at night and on initial climb-out somehow hit a combination of keys on the keyboard and all the electrical systems went off. and there was the time that about 8 miles out on an approach i added power, and there was no airspeed increase- in fact, it was falling rapidly, as for some reason the engines were dead. mmmm, i think that's about it. except for the times i just crashed.  (lr) |
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Post by Allan_Lowson on Dec 27, 2013 7:37:27 GMT -5
On a practise flight for the DCA Berlin Airlift multiplayer I had loaded up a DC-3 to fit in with the in crowd and was taking off and re-familiarising myself with the cockpit at the same time.
End result I fed the frequency for the first radio beacon into the radio and then set the heading to the same value.
So while everyone else headed off for Berlin I was aiming for the Atlantic. Luckily the flight co-ordinator noticed I was 180 degrees off track and reminded me of the correct heading!
I flew an Avro York and Handley-Page Halton in the two flights I managed to join in with, and kept heading the right way with them.
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Post by Allen Peterson on Dec 27, 2013 15:40:20 GMT -5
I've just started the first DC-3 Airways WR flight and I'm reminded of an incident a couple of years ago on a WR flight. I was on downwind to a landing on an island someplace in Scandinavia and it was snowing. I had the pitot and carb heats on. About that time the dinner bell rang so I saved the flight (never be late for dinner).
Later I restarted the flight, turned final and could begin to see the shape of the island. Then I realized that the airport was on a hill at 400' and I was getting too low. Full power, nothing happened, the rpms winding down.
It seems that FS9, in all of its wisdom, always starts (or restarts) a flight with the carb heat OFF.
And I never checked it ...
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