Originally posted by EHM-0654 Murray
Sotiris, what were you flying for the event? (I was in the B738 v4 livery, and I seem to remember LSZH_GND saying Peter was in the MD80...)
Hi Murray,
I was in the B737 at first but after finishing the SID and engaged the A/P although I set a climb rate fo 1800fpm the plane got a 55 deg nose up attitude, registered more than 4500fpm before stalling. (I'm glad this wasn't pro-pilot!!).
After leaving Mila ctr I switched to the A320 which also couldn't keep altitude, making the whole task harder. Especially trying to trim this plane was extremely hard as minute changes in trim meant HUGE changes in attitude.
Did I mention that both birds could not steer well on the ground?
And to top it all, with throttle at idle, speed brakes deployed and auto brakes at MAX the bird would not stop on the runway. (And yes, I had both autothrottle and A/P disengaged)
I think it has to do with a couple of small old planes I installed for the Alps tour (C172, Cirrus etc.) They also have wild responses to small stick movements etc. [I should have been suspicious when during their installation I got a prompt about overwriting protected files to which I responded yes...]
I am seriously contemplating de-installing everything and installing everything again.
FSNav also made the birds behave like they were drunk.
Saying that, it was cetainly an experience, flying those skies over zurich. The guys, despite the holdings and the inconvenient altitudes, were great and handled everything very well.
See you at the next one (hopefully after I've de-nstalled and re-installed everything)