Emergency Landing
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When you are cruising along and you have an engine failure, there is much more time to choose a place to land and the chances of actually making it safely are much greater. In this episode, learn to do just that.
Aviator90 Episode 42
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Good to see another “bouncy” landing! Fair play – in the real world I’m sure you would’ve had a better landing in the sand.
Most interesting thing I learned: pop the doors before landing. Completely irrelevant to FS, so fascinating as a result. Makes perfect sense, nice to learn it in A90.
Keep up the good work Chris, thanks.
Yeah, the landing wasn’t that great. These visual illusions are pretty interesting though. That ground looked completely flat until I got down there… Another lesson learned.
Chris I enjoyed 42 but have a few questions … I believe that you first turned off your power switches … would that also turn off your ability to lower your flaps … I did not hear your flaps go down … also when you land on a possible soft ground like sand would you keep your front wheel up as long as possible …
Interesting regarding opening the door before landing …
Very interesting flight and great lesson … as always …
jbn
You would want to try and keep your nose wheel off, but unfortunately FS is pretty horrible at modeling this sometimes, or the aircraft don’t model it. The only place I’ve seen it done consistently well is Xplane. So although I may have been holding backpressure on the yoke, the nose wheel wasn’t staying off.
I’m not sure I put the flaps down on this one… Maybe I did, maybe I didn’t. I’ll have to look again.
Your videos have made me a better virtual pilot I cannot wait for what is next … Thanks
Good lesson, if a little hairy! You couldn’t put down your flaps in this case because they’re electrically controlled, and you shut off power before lowering them. Ordinarily, I think you’d wait until you extended them to turn off the master, making that one of the last things you did.
Thanks for another great vid! I’m sorry we’re so close to the end now. I’ll bet you’re not, though
Yeah, you’re certainly right! Thankfully I got it right even amidst the engine fire situation to come next.
Hi Chris,
Are you using Track IR or similar?
Because I have seen that you are between fixed views, is that an addon?
Regards,
Omer
I’m using EZDock in this episode. Check it out at Flight1.com.
Hi Chris,
I think it’s about time I quickly reach out to you and let you know how much I’ve enjoyed your videos. I’ve watched everyone and have scanned through most of the comments, but have never taken the time to thank you for doing this. I have an interesting dilemma in that I can’t start my pilots training until both of my parents pass away. It’s a strange agreement that we came up with but they lost a friend years ago in a plane crash and are terrified of me even attempting to get my license. So, now I’m a 32 year old guy constantly asking my parents how they’re feeling and if they are ever short of breath
. FSX will do for now!
Thanks again.
Jeff
Wow, that certainly is an interesting dilemma! I had an ex-girlfriend who’s parents went through a similar situation, losing a friend, and forbade her from going. There are ways to ease those fears in people but at the time I didn’t put much effort into it. Had my wife not liked flying, I honestly can’t say things would have worked out (don’t mean to sound shallow). Thankfully the person she is is the type that supports me in my dreams in the first place, so I guess that’s partially why she’s my wife.
Anyway, enough about me. Really glad you’re liking these videos! Look forward to having you around for a long time coming