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Community Discussion => Flight Operations => Topic started by: EHM-1749 Hector on October 23, 2009, 06:03:23 am
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A few minutes ago just when landing at RPLL in Phillipines as I was about to start flaring at 100' over the runway I had a crash warning and 11 hours of flying were lost. Everything looked good. I don't have a clue why this happened. The only explanation I could think of is scenery related as I installed a new scenery for RPLL before the flight. I will check that tomorrow after I get my anger over.
I apologize to the EHM community for damaging the record we were achieving with almost a month without crashing.
I should add that the approach and almost-landing was being performed using the excellent MD-11 AutoLand facility.
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It certainly seems likely to be an invisible building crash, sadly these still happen all too frequently with addon sceneries ::)
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Hi Dominic,
the strange thing is that a building crash is not reported. I just finished a short fly in the MD11 to RPLL and executed the same approach in the same conditions and there was no problem. So, I don't think it is scenery related which is worst because now I am in the limbo.
I normally use FS Flight Keeper and the ACARS report shows that the crash was just very shortly before touchdown. It was about 1230am at home but in plain broad light in Manila. No IVAO traffic. Nothing. EHM ACARS also shows the speed was just the Vref of 155 kts and the v/s was less than 200 fps because the flare had already started. The problem is that I will learn nothing from this crash.
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That really does seem a mystery - if you've done a successful flight along the same flightpath I can't think what else could have caused this. Sorry!
Anybody else got any ideas ???