crash reality check in fspassenger

June 18th, 2006 - 09:06 pm ET by Lee & Luke | Report spam
so here I am on approach to travis afb (KSUU) after a good flight in a C_17
using fspassengers. I had previously set passenger for 40% chance of
failures and in 3 months havent had one problem. I had tried to fly a HU-16
from lost isles to Lake berryessa and had failure as soon as I started
loading passengers. So here I am on approach, wheels are down thank f**K. Im
flying right base and I'm over Buchanan doing KIAS of about 160. there's a
sizzle and my co-pilot tells me my electronics have gone. I look and no
avionics. the engines quickly speed up to 225 Kias. I bank for final with no
radio to call emergency as I was just about to call in before it went. I go
to drop my flaps and sizzle, "captain, our hydraulics have gone". Sizzle
again, "Captain, our engine controls have gone."
So I approach for final on the left runway at Travis but Im too high. I
decide to go for the right runway because as we all know, the right runway
at Travis starts off to the right of the end of the left runway. I was still
doing 225 so I bought it down on the grass at the beginning of runway left
but in line for runway right. I still had spoilers so I activated them?
hydraulics? I however had no brakes at all so the runway became history. "60
knotts" I slowed down to 30 knots and the edge of the feild was getting
close. I had realism set for crash as you do. What ended a good flight was a
bush, not a tree, a garden sized bush. My 50 tonne aircraft travelling at 30
KIAS crashed into a garden shrub killing half the passengers, injuring crew
and pilot. The report from passengers took off 400 points because I landed
plane full of passengers at 225 knotts and said it was dangerous and
illegal. But hey, half the passengers survived the garden shrub so I gues I
did well.
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#1 John Ward
June 18th, 2006 - 09:36 pm ET | Report spam
Hi Lee and Luke,

Sounds like Lawn Dart might finally have some serious opposition!! :-))

Regards,
John Ward
"Lee & Luke" wrote in message
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I'd like to add that the other day I did a water landing at Q86 (Lake
Berryessa) using passenger and landed on water at -645 ft/min and
according to passenger, damaged my landing gear...?!?



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#2 Lee & Luke
June 18th, 2006 - 09:39 pm ET | Report spam
I'd like to add that the other day I did a water landing at Q86 (Lake
Berryessa) using passenger and landed on water at -645 ft/min and according
to passenger, damaged my landing gear...?!?
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#3 RandyL
June 18th, 2006 - 10:05 pm ET | Report spam
L&L,
Like I always say:
"Any landing that you can
walk away from, is a landing that you
can be fined, sued, or prosecuted for."

Randy L.

"Lee & Luke" wrote in message
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so here I am on approach to travis afb (KSUU) after a good flight in a
C_17 using fspassengers. I had previously set passenger for 40% chance of
failures and in 3 months havent had one problem. I had tried to fly a
HU-16 from lost isles to Lake berryessa and had failure as soon as I
started loading passengers. So here I am on approach, wheels are down
thank f**K. Im flying right base and I'm over Buchanan doing KIAS of about
160. there's a sizzle and my co-pilot tells me my electronics have gone. I
look and no avionics. the engines quickly speed up to 225 Kias. I bank for
final with no radio to call emergency as I was just about to call in
before it went. I go to drop my flaps and sizzle, "captain, our hydraulics
have gone". Sizzle again, "Captain, our engine controls have gone."
So I approach for final on the left runway at Travis but Im too high. I
decide to go for the right runway because as we all know, the right runway
at Travis starts off to the right of the end of the left runway. I was
still doing 225 so I bought it down on the grass at the beginning of
runway left but in line for runway right. I still had spoilers so I
activated them? hydraulics? I however had no brakes at all so the runway
became history. "60 knotts" I slowed down to 30 knots and the edge of the
feild was getting close. I had realism set for crash as you do. What ended
a good flight was a bush, not a tree, a garden sized bush. My 50 tonne
aircraft travelling at 30 KIAS crashed into a garden shrub killing half
the passengers, injuring crew and pilot. The report from passengers took
off 400 points because I landed plane full of passengers at 225 knotts and
said it was dangerous and illegal. But hey, half the passengers survived
the garden shrub so I gues I did well.




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#4 Crash Lander
June 19th, 2006 - 01:53 am ET | Report spam
I set my failure possibilities to 5%, and when I first started flying, I got
failures quite often! Haven't had one for a while, so I must be due! 40% is
a bit unrealistic wouldn't you say? Only ever had landing gear failures and
flaps failures. Had a brake failure once I think, but nothing else.
Apparently you can get broken windscreens and all sorts!
Crash Lander

I'm not always right,
But I'm never wrong!
"Lee & Luke" wrote in message
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so here I am on approach to travis afb (KSUU) after a good flight in a
C_17 using fspassengers. I had previously set passenger for 40% chance of
failures and in 3 months havent had one problem. I had tried to fly a
HU-16 from lost isles to Lake berryessa and had failure as soon as I
started loading passengers. So here I am on approach, wheels are down
thank f**K. Im flying right base and I'm over Buchanan doing KIAS of about
160. there's a sizzle and my co-pilot tells me my electronics have gone. I
look and no avionics. the engines quickly speed up to 225 Kias. I bank for
final with no radio to call emergency as I was just about to call in
before it went. I go to drop my flaps and sizzle, "captain, our hydraulics
have gone". Sizzle again, "Captain, our engine controls have gone."
So I approach for final on the left runway at Travis but Im too high. I
decide to go for the right runway because as we all know, the right runway
at Travis starts off to the right of the end of the left runway. I was
still doing 225 so I bought it down on the grass at the beginning of
runway left but in line for runway right. I still had spoilers so I
activated them? hydraulics? I however had no brakes at all so the runway
became history. "60 knotts" I slowed down to 30 knots and the edge of the
feild was getting close. I had realism set for crash as you do. What ended
a good flight was a bush, not a tree, a garden sized bush. My 50 tonne
aircraft travelling at 30 KIAS crashed into a garden shrub killing half
the passengers, injuring crew and pilot. The report from passengers took
off 400 points because I landed plane full of passengers at 225 knotts and
said it was dangerous and illegal. But hey, half the passengers survived
the garden shrub so I gues I did well.




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#5 Lee & Luke
June 19th, 2006 - 01:57 am ET | Report spam
same approach again and I got another failure. same plane, same place, right
over Buchanan. didnt lose av's, didnt lose hydraulics...think it might have
been throttle control because I slowed the c-17 down to 15 KIAS and exitted
the runway, then slowly taxiied to a gate. When I stopped pressing the
brakes, the aircraft lurched forward into a building. CRASH. I killed 40
this time. perhaps I shouldve shut off engines on the taxiway and let
passengers off since until then I hadn't killed anyone. Anyway, is Buchanan
like, haunted or something? the concorde triangle or something?, maybe I
should put a waypoint over commodore centre and approach over Metro Oakland
or something. Scary. I would just like to say if I ever go stateside, I'll
make sure I never fly over Buchanan.
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