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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