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Formula One 2007 Edition - Official Discussion Thread
EHM-1953 Daniel:
oh Luis, that sounds like something you can blame yourself and Fs for, for a very long time.. :| hate when those things happens...
EHM-1001 Robert:
It is really sad news Luis. I just landed yestrerday morning safely, with a freeware add-on scenery...perhaps that saved my career :o
Well, to be honest, that is why Decision level is there for. If you cant see the runway clearly at decision level (around 200 feet) you can still end your approach and make a go-around, or try to land at the alternate airport.
I remember some extremely foggy approaches at Africa during the Dakar, when I scanned for the runway at 100...150 feet height with gear out and flaps out. Then I made dangerous manouvers when suddenly saw it, but never landed on the sand.
EHM-1442 Luis:
I am not to complain about this, because the responsibility is mine... and as it is usual, I feel myself sick when this happens... because I am always with the sensation that I could prevent it . It was easy to disengage the autolanding and do it by hand....
There was clear sky and i saw very early that i was landing on the grass parallel to the rwy , but after 8 flight hours, maybe i was too tired to think(dinner was on the table...ehehe) and i tryied deliberately to land on the green grass.
Now, i don't know if it is a scenery bug or someting else, because during all the flight (747-400 PMDG) with LNAV engaged i had always a 20ยบ degrees difference between the the true heading and the FMC heading. Maybe IRC or GPS error?
See you again on ProPilot after the suspension....
EHM-1500 Jim:
How many people are actually still involved in flying this event....
Seems alot of us have dropped out for various reasons - would be interesting to know what percentage of those who originally signed up for the event are still flying it.
Jim
EHM-1612 Paolo:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by EHM-1500 Jim
How many people are actually still involved in flying this event....
Seems alot of us have dropped out for various reasons - would be interesting to know what percentage of those who originally signed up for the event are still flying it.
--- End quote ---
Well, if you go on the "lock flight" section on PP you can see that there are 14 reserved planes at Geneve that never took off + 2 spare planes. In Kuwait there are 2 planes parked, in Kuala (we landed there twice) there are 6 planes. In Melbourne 3, In Bahrain just 1. It means that 12 pilots are still participating at the event (they are at Nice or at Montreal).
Totally, 12 planes crashed during the event.
In conclusion, it means that we started in 49 (counting the reserved planes and the total planes crashed) and now we're 12.... :o....which means that only 24% of the pilots participating survived until today...:8
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