Lisbon - Dakar 2007 : Official Discussion thread

[EHM-1752 Luciano]

Thank you Jay, not so good as yours though, you are a professional!

[EHM-1199 Philip]

HELP!! FS2K4 restarted the situation as I flew over GOTT and then I get a crashed airplane report to file in ProPilot!! I was 2500 feet from the ground and not in any way about to crash!! This leaves irritating at the door and heads right on in to annoying city centre!! HELP anyone please!!

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

Hi Philip,

Unfortunately your airplane's black box doesn't show us the same thing.
As you can see on the following image, your altitude was bellow that one, your gear was not down and you also stalled.

I would also advise you to refrain your emotions a bit because we are always here to help, but on this situation we cannot do anything. Better luck for the next event.



Regards,

[EHM-1199 Philip]

Originally posted by EHM-0948 Bruno

I would also advise you to refrain your emotions a bit because we are always here to help, but on this situation we cannot do anything. Better luck for the next event.

Hi Bruno... congratulations by the way - some stuff matter more than flight sim
Whatever you have as my airplane's black box ain't right...I was sat infront of the screen when the situation reset. There was no stall. the airplane was descending from 5000' and hadn't even reached 2500'. Somewhere along the line something is wrong. I just know I've all but lost faith in events and pro-pilot. If it's only me reporting bugs then guess it's my setup. Sorry if emotions were raw but was and still am ticked off at what seems like a waste of time. will return to flying non pp stuff until after I've found time to do a resintallation of fs and see if that helps. I also had weird scenery issues in north africa that seemed to suggest all was not right on my system.

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

Hi Philip,

As I said we can't :$ ... The ACARS shows a clean crash there and as you know if it weren't (like it happened on a pilot from the Dakar event) I would gladly give you a spare airplane.

We still didn't considered this a problem because it's very rare to have situations where we had to "swallow our words" because the Flight Logger uses the FSUIPC software to analyse your flight, and imagine if that software was incorrect at that point ...

So, I would strongly suggest a FS2004 + Addons re-installation in order to try to solve this unfortunately problem.

Regards,

[EHM-1714 João]

Hi!

I've had Flight Simulator become inaccessible for a few minutes while the plane kept flying (meaning that if I was using some ACARS program the flight parameters would continue to be registered), until FS crashed. Maybe this is what happened to our college.
Just my opinion, but he should be given second change after flying all those legs. We're all here just for fun, right!?

Regards,
João

[EHM-1199 Philip]

Joao,
Thanks for this. I really don't know what happened here. I do know that I've never tried to buck the system here and part of what riled me last night was the feel that folks felt their data was infallible and I knew differently. It is, as others have said, only a game

As it happens, I was wrestling to fly these legs and despite having an opportunity for a long weekend away was actually going to stay home til tomorrow morning to fly that extra leg. Daft really. Will now have a longer weekend away by leaving earlier tomorrow or maybe this eve All good in the end. Will definitely re-install FS when I return and before I fly any more PP flights.

Was very disappointing to have spent time only to drop out but really not the end of the world.

[EHM-1001 Robert]

Well, it happened to me many times that Logger lost connection with ...something... It became white, but ran at the background, and came back after about 2 minutes, and continued recording the ACARS. There was not any problem on the return phase. It did not make any penalties upon that, so I think it works in the background but unable to report to the server...maybe a "CPU Quota Exceeded Error" is happening at the site.

The main thing it is a bit annoying but cannot cause you unwanted penalties. And if you check that ACARS on that picture, Logger was alive with half minute recordings.

[EHM-1908 Steve]

Well i have just arrived back at LPPT
What a great event Paris-Dakar on Pro-Pilot.
This was my first ProPilot event and now i can't wait for the next.It's good to see air fields that i would not normally fly to or even countries that i would not fly to.

Well done to the MT for setting up the event  

Could i perhaps suggest that the next Pro-Pilot outing could visit Russia or China ?

Congrats to all other Paris - Dakar pilots hope we did'nt damage or lose too many aircraft :$

Steve

[EHM-1703 Philip]

Steve, well done on getting to the end, I'm not far behind you!

The congrats should really gop to Bruno, he set it up again! It was his baby. I can tell you that the next event may visit some strange and exotic places but not necessarilly the way you would expect!!! Keep your eyes posted, you have a bit of time off first so enjoy it!!!!

Cheers

[EHM-1749 Hector]

One more to go. Here are two beautiful shots when approaching and landing at GCTS at sunset.
This is when descending close to the island


This is when executing the right wind leg for GCTS


Hope you like them both.
Regards,
Hector

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

Hi,

Congratulations for the first ones to finish the Event. Definately this event ran much better than the last Lisbon-Dakar. On that time we got the "mismatched stolen airplane" problem

We are already preparing the next event that will be present to all of you on February. For now, we cannot give any clues about it

Regards,

[EHM-1821 Javier]

first to finish guy right here;D;D;D

Great Event once again, thanks to the MT ;D;D

On the final leg, LPPC_CTR gave me a visual approach when i asked for a ILS approach, had to go around...:]

Cant wait till the Febuary Event;D;D;D

[EHM-1695 Hélio]

Well, as you know, i crashed my aircraft over Malaga because a wrong instruction from the Spanish atc in service:@:@:@. However, I continued the DAKAR, giving assistance to you guys!!! ;D

I already finished the event, but I want to know if I can use another aircraft from Dakar to Lisbon, or if I have to use the B1900d?

[EHM-1001 Robert]

You should use the same aircraft throughout the whole event

[EHM-1001 Robert]

The Event has been finished !

I was the last to arrive to Lisbon. All the birds are in the garage now in Lisbon we only need to wait 2 more days until the awards will arrive...

Thank you for the creators and the participents

[EHM-1714 João]

Originally posted by EHM-1001 Robert
The Event has been finished !

I was the last to arrive to Lisbon. All the birds are in the garage now in Lisbon we only need to wait 2 more days until the awards will arrive...

Thank you for the creators and the participents

Oh... dam it! :] I was the first one to fly the first leg and was hoping to be the last one arriving. Oh well...
Great event!

João

[EHM-1009 Kevin]

Anyone know when the award for this event be added to profiles?

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

Hi,

It's automatically given.

Regards,

[EHM-1657 Jay]

It shows up with a little red x in my award list

[EHM-0948 Bruno]

Sorry, it's solved now

[EHM-1657 Jay]

Hmmmm it is still showing up as a red little x

[EHM-1009 Kevin]

mine to

[EHM-1001 Robert]

I guess we need to wait 1 more day, until the engine replaces the bad filename with the correct one in our profile page code

[EHM-1657 Jay]

Ah ok lol