Pucker factor 10

[alphie]

So being a newbie to the sim, I was working thru the training missions and was only on the basic flight, when I stopped receiving training instructions from the instructor.. bug? I did everything he told me to do, but he just stopped giving instructions after telling me to climb to 12k, so I was basically in free flight mode.

 

Since I was just flying along, with no more communications from the expert I decided to have a little fun. I saw a river below me and did a reverse immulman, promptly exceeded my flight speed characteristics and flamed both engines out. Alarms and claxxons going crazy, engine noises deafly silent.. pilots worse nightmare.

 

I was able to stabalize the plane with a slight nose down, but I was loosing altitude quickly. At the flameout I was only 3k AGL, so I was frantic. I began contemplating ejection, but I said hell with it, I will ride it down and try to belly land in a field somewhere. Uncle Sam would be PO'd if I wrecked this nice warbird, besides there aren't many left.

 

All of it sudden it dawned on me, like a light bulb going off over my head. Maybe I can get out of this. I remembered my earlier flight training about cold starts on the field, so I desperately tried to remember the engine startup steps. Now, I dont know if this is the "correct" way to do this, but.. I put both throttles to idle, I shut off both fuel master switches to the main engines, powered up the APU and APU inverter, waited a few seconds for the APU to settle out, then enabled the starboard engine fuel and, OMG it started stuttering, hiccuping and whining to life. When it was fully settled out I punched it forward past the detents, and prayed for salvation. I was 600m AGL at 78kts.

 

Let me tell you, flying the Hog on one engine and low speed is like trying to keep a fat chick on a surf board in a tsunami. I contimplated flaps, but I was so slow and fighting so hard, I didnt want to risk another issue. I faught it hard and slowly my airspeed kicked up and was able to slowly regain attitude. I only have a single stick throttle and haven't memorized the keys for individual throttle control, so I climbed my way back up to 2 grand, set the throttle to idle, turned on the port fuel flow and heard it kick back up to life. Oh sweet salvation!!!

 

I promptly landed at the closest airfield. I really wanted to watch it again, but I dont know how to keep a record of the flight I just had, so I lost it.

 

I havent even fired a weapon yet on this bird, but man oh man was that fun. Going back to the manual now to read up and try to learn more. The only problem is, the sim is just too beautiful. I get a couple of pages into the manual, get bored and then get into trouble in the sim because I didnt RTFM. :lol:

 

Cheers,

alphie

Edited November 28, 2010 by alphie

[159th_Viper]

Great read and good job :thumbup:

 

For what it's worth, next time you have a flight you would like to 'replay' so to speak, when exiting the mission [Esc] you always get a prompt to save the track. Just click the 'Save Track' box and follow the prompts.

 

The track from your last mission is also saved in your Temp folder under 'LastMissionTrack.trk' file - obviously overwritten with every subsequent flight. With MP every track is saved and not overwritten as above.

[alphie]

Great read and good job :thumbup:

 

For what it's worth, next time you have a flight you would like to 'replay' so to speak, when exiting the mission [Esc] you always get a prompt to save the track. Just click the 'Save Track' box and follow the prompts.

 

The track from your last mission is also saved in your Temp folder under 'LastMissionTrack.trk' file - obviously overwritten with every subsequent flight. With MP every track is saved and not overwritten as above.

 

Awesome, thanks for the info. I dont think training missions give you the options to save the .trk file tho. At least I didnt get that option when I exited.

[galagamo]

Let me tell you, flying the Hog on one engine and low speed is like trying to keep a fat chick on a surf board in a tsunami.

That's a pretty good analogy.

[alphie]

The track from your last mission is also saved in your Temp folder under 'LastMissionTrack.trk' file - obviously overwritten with every subsequent flight. With MP every track is saved and not overwritten as above.

 

I found it! Right where you said it was, thanks again!

 

http://6ahdda.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pm50z0A8jXZyFx6GKlR0RKhjvseAR6Kq_Rl44Ek32mZf8DDCY70hfv0DFc0u8Pd4oOaHl0HJa1jrOgQzL1OhzeWnqClDkL6LU/Flameout.trk?download&psid=1

 

Its your basic boring training mission until 11:14 game time. You can tell I come from WWII flight sims the way I land. Lots of hard rudder to cut speed. Yeah, it aint pretty, but was successful.