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What is the funniest situation you have been into when flying FS?
EHM-2155 Mariano:
I was flying a kinda long haul flight, something like 4 or 5 hours. The previous day I had partied with my friends so I figured I'd do the climbing, leave it in autopilot for the cruise and take over for landing.
So I climbed to FL 360 and went to "nap"
Six hours later when I finally woke up, after punching several times the snooze button on my alarm clock, I find my Airbus 330 doing circles at FL 360 above the destination airport :O
So I quickly set a course away from the airport and start like a 3000 ft/m, full spoilers, contact the tower, request ILS and start circling around to it :S
When I touched down I had little more than 15 remaining minutes of fuel...
If ProPilot had a penalty for "Pilot fell a sleep during flight", I would have gotten it :O
I wonder what my passengers thought of that flight and how the stewardesses explained the situation to them
"Hum yes sir, this is completely normal. Our Captain drank too much last night and he's a sleep, we will land as soon as he wakes up. Do you want peanuts?"
EHM-2097 Andrei:
I have also a fuel story (that is funny because of my complete unawareness of the deep trouble I got into).
I was flying the Eurocargo mission between ESSA and LFPO, with the Bae 146. The mission required "strong winds" and I compelled, but it appeared most of these were headwinds during all flight so I burned a lot of "unscheduled" fuel enroute.
Plus, I kind of miscalculated the fuel, so that during approach I noticed I only had VERY little left. I decided to cheat rather than crash and checked "unlimited fuel". Little did I know that the sophisticated Bae 146 panel ignores this setting.
Thinking I solved the problem, I concentrated in doing good on finals and did not think about fuel again.
I landed on the runway, braked, bringing the aircraft almost to fullstop. Then I set throttles again to leave the runway, and AT THAT MOMENT all engines flamed out due to fuel starvation.
This too would sound nice in real life: "Tower, EHM9999 has landed, now we need a fuel truck or a pushback tractor to vacate the runway please".
Andrei
EHM-9302 David:
Great story.
Never experenced anything like that.
;)
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EHM-2272 Callum:
Flying a 24 hour flight from Sydney to Atlanta, just about to begin my approach and got a powercut. never tryed doing one since :(
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