Just did first successful emergency landing! Whoohooo!

[apoll]

Hey...just need to share this. Lined up ready to do a qual hop...running finr up the runway...rotate..then bang! right engibe fire and I lose the engine! Pull fire extinguisher...almost pancake into the sea because I forget to fly the thing...all over the place...manage to stay airborne...I crank up the left engine to max pushing against the stops and keep it there. Still in the air. Fire is out but engine useless...just concentrate on keeping it level and in the air. Slowly gaining speed and height...come around for an emergency landing..the guy who is rating me bellows that I've failed because I broke the deck of 2000. Sheesh! Got mu hands full to worry too much about it. Line up eventually and wallow doenwards toward the deck, the HUD scale is way off to the left and I have my foot hard pressed to the left to cenytre it. Wallow into the deck...manage the speed...keep her straight and don't put the nose too high...steady..steady...touchdown! I'm on the deck and running out. Yikes! The front wheel blows and I'm careening across the runway. Keep her straight! But at least, she slows then stops. Whew! Did it. My first emergency landing. What caused the fire on takeoff? I don't know. The rating guy above me circles at 8 grand. I'll need a new bird to join him!

 

apoll out :thumbup:

[GGTharos]

Probably a bird strike :)

[bluepilot76]

Hi apoll,

Congrats on your safe landing. Its much harder to control during the takeoff than any other time in flight. Good practice because I find the engines take a lot of hits on the missions. Did you have any stores? good to jettison them pretty quick.

 

About birdstrikes, I have turned off birds, thinking that would save me a few frames. Are there actually birds that you see or is it just something you can enable to create the chance of random failures?

 

Although I dont have birds, I did lose some instruments the other day on a training flight (so not due to enemy action) There was a big flash of lightning at the time so I assumed that was what caused it. Its good that this stuff is modelled.

[GGTharos]

Birds are not visible, they are modeled as a probability.

 

Your loss of instruments probably was random, though it sounds suspiciously coincidental that it happened during the lightning. Aircraft shouldn't be terribly susceptible to that though :)

[apoll]

Bluepilot76..yea...no sign of birds...as GGTharos says, not actually seen in sim. But that explains the mystery. Bird strikes. Must lower the probability. Sure as pie gave me a start. It's a measure of how realistic they have got this thing that you actually tense up as yopu power up and hurtle down the runway. An engine failure, just for a moment, invokes a real sense of fright and Oh @#!%%!!. I had no stores...clean skin. Was dopig one of those excellent qualification hops you can download. They are brilliant.

 

apoll out

[bluepilot76]

Cool! I think I will turn the birds back on. I quite fancy a bit of that realism! (I am sure my instrument failure was caused by the lightning, it was like FLASH/BANG/BEEP BEEP BEEP...)

[Ozz13]

Very nice. That's the great thing about a game with this ones complexities. You'll remember those things, those victories, for years. :D

[Frostiken]

Hey...just need to share this. Lined up ready to do a qual hop...running finr up the runway...rotate..then bang! right engibe fire and I lose the engine! Pull fire extinguisher...almost pancake into the sea because I forget to fly the thing...all over the place...manage to stay airborne...I crank up the left engine to max pushing against the stops and keep it there. Still in the air. Fire is out but engine useless...just concentrate on keeping it level and in the air. Slowly gaining speed and height...come around for an emergency landing..the guy who is rating me bellows that I've failed because I broke the deck of 2000. Sheesh! Got mu hands full to worry too much about it. Line up eventually and wallow doenwards toward the deck, the HUD scale is way off to the left and I have my foot hard pressed to the left to cenytre it. Wallow into the deck...manage the speed...keep her straight and don't put the nose too high...steady..steady...touchdown! I'm on the deck and running out. Yikes! The front wheel blows and I'm careening across the runway. Keep her straight! But at least, she slows then stops. Whew! Did it. My first emergency landing. What caused the fire on takeoff? I don't know. The rating guy above me circles at 8 grand. I'll need a new bird to join him!

 

apoll out :thumbup:

 

 

I had the exact same thing happen to me on one of my early, early flights. Except due to wind I came in all cock-assed on the runway, blew my RMLG, overcompensated on steering, tore off my LMLG, flipped over, and blew up :)

[hassata]

Nice write-up!

[BBall]

Hey guys,

 

 

Terrific flight sim (obviously), and I’m really glad to see you guys doing some stuff we call “abnormals”….lol. “Airline speak” for when the shite hits the fan!

 

 

 

I’m really impressed that you are taking the time to actually learn to fly this machine on one engine. One of my pet peeves for years, when it comes to flight sims that attempt to replicate what it’s like to be a fighter pilot, is this: LOTS of emphasis on the “fighter” part, not so much on the “pilot” part. Most people are not aware that weather and accidents typically kill more pilots than actual combat.

 

 

Anyway, here’s a link to a thread I responded to last week. Some insights (I hope) on the mindset of an airline pilot on what to do when one of the motors stop working.

 

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=72267

Thanks guys, and for all that have shut an engine down and made it back to the runway in one piece….GOOD SHOW!

 

 

 

Oh, and as my dear father used to say (he was an Army helo driver for many years)…”any landing you’re thrown clear of is a good one!”

 

 

Have a great day all,

 

 

BBall

[redtail]

absolutely. I've practiced single engine in this thing since I first got it and it handles great! awesome sim. I even go up sometimes and fly inverted til both engines die then try restarting them :) if i'm unable to in time......then I practice looking for a place to do an emergency landing....load of fun

[redtail]

also, remember to use your trim while on single engine......really helps!

[apoll]

Trim AND the big lesson I got out of this experience was to always fly the plane as the number one priority. Then once you're still flying more safely, turn attention to other things. I almost pancaked ito the sea in the first 30 seconds because I forgot to concentrate on flying the plane in the first instance.

 

apoll

[jeffyd123]

i havent lost an engine on takeoff... yet.

 

you're right about "Flying the Plane"... I try to stabilize and trim first then emergency jettison the weps or deal with fires.

 

then If needed I will switch the dead motor to "Motor" and fire up the APU in case its needed... If the left engine is hit, I try to get the APU up quickly.