landing problem

05pricej · Post by **05pricej** » 01 May 2007, 09:59

i also just noticed that the plane only took 0.01% damage from a 270fpm landing. They really were built to last in those days.

Post by **DaveB** » 01 May 2007, 11:23

Hi Jonathan,

Were we still back in the dark days.. you'd have lost .3, maybe .4% for a landing like that. No matter if you had a 0fpm landing.. FlyNET used to knock off .1% per flight.. very boring. However.. times change and the airframe calculations did too as it's now split between engine life/hours and landings making it much better

In reality, a 270fpm landing, while not exactly kissing the tarmac, is not heavy for an aircraft of that size and in this respect, the new calculations work very well

Don't forget.. if you're gonna bail out.. do it before you hit the parking brake

While on the subject of landings.. certain aircraft (the way I fly em anyway) are prone to kiss the tarmac.. get airbourne again for a second and then settle again. Checking your landing figure when the flight is finished may reveal a nice low figure but.. FlyNET does take into account the first touch too and this is reflected in the aircraft percentage dropping a bit faster than you'd think. Nothing drastic but something to be aware of

As an example.. I took a DC3 into Portsmouth a few weeks back and managed to find an uneven bit on PeteP's scenery. This threw the DC3 into the air tossing and cartwheeling everywhere in one of Fsims lovely sporadic convultions.. bouncing off the deck then suddenly 200ft in the air!! It did this a couple of times and I wondered what the hell I should do. Rather than bug out.. I opened the throttles and got the DC3 stable then went in for another landing.. this time avoiding the scenery jump. The flight recorded a -15fpm landing but.. the airframe life had dropped by either .3 or .4!!! The moral of the story.. you hit anything and FlyNET will know about it

John.. Rgr on the failures.

ATB

DaveB :tab:

05pricej · Post by **05pricej** » 01 May 2007, 12:55

just finished my flight and landed with about 4 bounces at Gatwick. It took quite a while to get ot the gate because my world of Ai traffic made BA and easyjet hog the taxiways.

This time my rating was-13fpm which i pretty proud of.

One last thing. THe briefing says 2h00 and without taxiing the flight took me 2H30 maybe it could be adjusted.

IM now looking for ward to my next flight which will be to Rome where i think i will stop over for a spot of sightseeing in a chippie.

05pricej · Post by **05pricej** » 01 May 2007, 13:40

If anyones interested ive just had a change of plans. I am now going to try and fly to pakistan. This could be interesting.

Post by **RAF_Quantum** » 01 May 2007, 14:11

05pricej wrote:One last thing. THe briefing says 2h00 and without taxiing the flight took me 2H30 maybe it could be adjusted.

Hi Jonathan,

According to the flight log you completed the flight in 1hr 48mins

Rgds

John

05pricej · Post by **05pricej** » 01 May 2007, 15:25

oops i was reading local time. I still cant work that one out though? It's probably just my skills at reading the time.

05pricej · Post by **05pricej** » 01 May 2007, 18:51

just found the culprit for the freeze up. I used SFAutostart to shut down Norton but it didnt shut down live update. LiveUpdate decided to install updates just as i touched donw. Typical!!!

Post by **DaveB** » 01 May 2007, 19:39

That's a bummer Jon :sad: I have to be careful on this system when flying as McAfee spits the sim out at scheduled AV checks :curse: Ah well.. you know what to do now should the same happen again

ATB

DaveB :tab: