Video: CFIT and Scary Music.

[DPS]

Here’s a video on how to avoid hurtling into the ground (CFIT = Controlled Flight into Terrain) whilst flying in cloud. It’s really pitched at FS2004 users, but it also features Lock On explosion effects.

It’s 5:47 mins long. If you can’t be bothered watching it, the gist of the lesson is that if the Aural Warning System yells ‘PULL UP, PULL UP’, pull back on the stick and climb to a safe altitude – and probably into the engagement zone of an SA-10!!

Here’s the link to the video: http://www.dpsflight.com/Kras727CFIT_0001.wmv

[Colt40Five]

So lemme get this straight...the point of the vid is to tell you to pull up when the audible "pull up" sounds?....genius that, never would have figured...

[Force_Feedback]

What about aerobatics, if I had to listen to all them computer voices, I would never have scraped the ground, losing boht my engines.

 

Hmmm, great hint, listen to Betty/Rita

[DPS]

A lot of commercial (and military) pilots don't listen to Betty

 

http://www.flightsafety.org/cfit1.html

 

On Nov. 27, 1983, an Avianca Airlines 747 flying from Paris to Madrid landed several miles short of the runway, killing all 183 aboard. It had a newfangled device called a Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS). Last words on the cockpit voice recorder are the GPWS saying, "Pull up! Terrain!" and the captain responding, "Shut up, gringo!” True story.

DPS.

[Force_Feedback]

A lot of commercial (and military) pilots don't listen to Betty

 

http://www.flightsafety.org/cfit1.html

 

On Nov. 27, 1983, an Avianca Airlines 747 flying from Paris to Madrid landed several miles short of the runway, killing all 183 aboard. It had a newfangled device called a Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS). Last words on the cockpit voice recorder are the GPWS saying, "Pull up! Terrain!" and the captain responding, "Shut up, gringo!” True story.

DPS.

 

We all know the pilots had too much of teh white stuff, hence their agressive reaction. Hell, I bet they even started a long conversation with the GPWS voice after that.

 

Saw a programme on Nat. Geog. about a terrain coupled GPWG, to avoid mountain CFITs due to bad visibility, and too late pilot reaction, resulting in stalls, and smacking into mountains at high angle of attacks.

 

My biggest wish is to have a real Rita on the mig and su-27, so she will say things like "Right engine intake failure, slow down to 600 km/h and don't push the throttle past 80%" or, my favorite (due to her suggestion): "Hydraulic system failure, check pressure of backup system, if pressure is above 100, fly at angles of attack of no more than 5, if below 100 eject immediately!"

Man, that system makes me squeal like a little girl, just thinking about it being implemented in a sim some years from now.