Draken35 Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 Do you guys practice with your backup/standby instruments? I normally don't but today, I have a practice forced on me.... I was flying the ground attack sortie of Pirate Voyage - Mission 1 - Blackbeard's Folly (https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3311380/ ) and without giving too much away, Dash 2 collided with me during a low altitude ingress, about 80nm from the closest friendly airbase... Surprisingly, my Harrier was still flyable ! The caution lights panel lit up like a Christmas tree but I was too low and with enemy air nearby to risk opening my kneeboard and trying to decipher the lights. Suffice to say that the engine was still working and I saw no fires in the mirror. Lost some data elements from the HUD, like my speed, altitude and heading tape and the plane was flying a bit funny... So, why not, I decided to bring the plane home. Dumped my ordnance and turned around about 180 degrees. Nav system was working so I selected WP 1 (closest to the departure airfield. After a few minutes I was close to it... Here my luck ran out... Low ceiling and 0 visibility near the airport, Bandar-E-Jask... So I climbed a bit and used the moving map, had to turn it on and do the gain trick (PLEASE Razbam improve the quality of the MCPDs! We VR users will appreciate it) and flew around until I got into the right approach... I couldn't remember if Bandar-E-Jask has ILS or not but, either way, I did not had the data at hand (I have a self imposed rule of not using the F10 map while flying) ... So, I got out of the soup at about 800' AGL ,250 knots and pretty much lined up with the runway at about 3 miles... So, I tried the landing gear, and it came down and locked up as it should, next where the Flaps... Set them to VTOL and the moment they passed 20 degrees, the aircraft back violently to the left and went nose down... Tried to retract the flaps and recover but didn't work and the Harrier went nose down to the ground....Barely had chance to pull the ejection handle ... Fun mission... From now on, I'll practice flying with my backup instruments... At the very least to know where they are!
Wisky Posted May 7, 2021 Posted May 7, 2021 yeah flaps test at high alt is very important after any dmg indication or your up for a hard spin
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