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Historic Dutch East Indies Route Event - Reports
EHM-1749 Hector:
For those using FS9 the default OPSF runway has no lights. Again I made the same stupid mistake of not checking it in advance. It was not an easy task to spot the runway in pitch dark. Result: 400 points penalty for a hard landing. Well deserved!
EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
Same goes for FSX scenery ...
I got a PPPP-free flight this time, though :)
With some 400 ft/min touchdown v-speed ( -364 acc. to saveyourflight, -411 acc. to Flight Keeper) I was probably close to that penalty myself ;)
EHM-1749 Hector:
You were very close indeed Eric-Jan. My v/s at touchdown registered by FS Flight Keeper was 479 fpm.
Anyhow, I just checked the next stop and the runway is lighted. At least in FS9.
EHM-2097 Andrei:
For this leg I have also something to report, but it's on the "odd stuff" category.
I usually - included today - fly with failures off (yes, yes, shame on me, I know ;) ). To navigate 100% VFR, as I like, I just look at the landscape around and periodically switch to Google Earth to guess where I am.
At some moment, when switching back to FS, poof!
- Speed Indicator = 0 and flagged
- Altimeter = 0 and flagged
- Vertical speed indicator = frozen
- FD bars = off
- AP LCD screen = black
First I hoped it's some kind of "temporary insanity" and tried to restore a normal situation (even checked the failure settings, to see whether I changed these by mistake), but eventually there was little else to do other than accept the situation.
I had to disconnect the AP because it was holding an unknown altitude. Fortunately the backup altimeter and speed indicator were operational, so manually holding altitude and steering was easy.
Descent was more difficult, as I continually feared a too deep dive (and thus did exactly the opposite :) ). Final approach was uncertain as I had no vertical speed indication, so I just guess I was on a proper glideslope. Some PAPI lights would have helped but there were none on "my" runway.
I don't even dare to imagine how it would feel with the backup instruments down too. Brrr...
Andrei
EHM-1001 Robert:
Wow ! What a nightmare. Once it happened to me too on board a B757 I think, while I tried to land in Stockholm. But that was in FS2002. I have no clue how these things can happen, that many guages frozen in the same time, whils some backup gauges are still operating...
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