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EHM-1465 Dominic:

--- Quote ---Originally posted by EHM-2198 Didimo

1. The extreme windshear above FL300 in Germany/Alps as also reported by another user flying another plane and of course me being there in the right place at the wrong time :)
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If the problem is due to extreme winds then there isn't much we can do about it ;)


--- Quote ---Let us not forget that people run miriads of different computer configurations with FS9, FS9.1, FSX various add-ons that sometimes screw things up.
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That's a fair point about many different set-ups bit it is also your answer - you report many extremely unusual issues in this thread that others have not experienced...  If it is to do with your PC and sim set-up we are unlikely to have an answer for you...

Basically, we will try our best to help all our pilots here. We can give help on flight techniques, layout of the panel, places to get useful downloads etc but if your PC has some component that disagrees with a particular aircraft there's not much we can do...

Out of interest, you have made reference to normally flying the jets like B757/767 - which planes and panels do you use and have you ever experienced any odd flight behaviour from them?

EHM-2198 Didimo:
After further examination I think I have come up with an explanation about the weird behaviour exhibited by the a/c on this "maiden" flight.

It was a ProPilot flight, the server did not take notice of it but that is beside the point of this thread. However, my local FlightLogger client DID grey out the ProPilot button, so as far as it was concerned it WAS a ProPilot flight. The server does not program failures (or it may), it is the task of Flight Logger (which actually connects to FS) to generate these faults at random times. Pretty interesting if you think about it.

The ProPilot system introduces "a complex algorithm for aircraft failures based on the amount of hours accumulated before a maintenance cycle".

My a/c was not so "virgin" and I guess I was given some failures to keep me entertained :) [as it indeed was]. Under normal circumstances this would not be the case as I had flown it manually before.

I recall that sometime during the beginning of the flight there was a mention of "aircraft has been damaged" and hell broke lose at random afterwards.

Some of the causes of the weird behaviour are the windshear encountered with the "real weather" at that time but mostly due to the random failures programmed by FlightLogger in the PP algorithm (as expected).

The behaviour exhibited by the a/c during the "extreme circumstances" seem to be in accordance to some failures I experienced before with a "damaged" aircraft using the FS Passengers trial add-on as well as with the rudder getting stuck either left or right or ailerons getting stuck. The latest also consistent with failures I have seen described in Discovery Channel/National Geographic "Aircraft Crash Investigation". One of those rudder failure episodes was actually on TV just last week if I remember correctly.

And the "horrendous experience" was not mine -I think there has been a misunderstanding there-, it was experienced by the virtual passengers on the flight.

If you haven't experienced those failures then lucky you :) yet at the same time you have certainly missed the oppty. to attempt to handle these situations, luckily mine didn't crash.

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