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Roxas_XIII
Shur'tugal (Dragon Rider)
Joined: Jan 09, 2007
Age: 17
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Location: Somewhere over Alagaesia
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 Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject: I love aviation... |
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..but it hates me.
I was using FlightSimX to fly a Cessna Skyhawk from Memphis Int'l to the muncipal airport in Jonesburo, AR. The hour-long flight went fine, until i decided to join the traffic pattern at the Jonesburo airport. I was too high on my first final, so i told ATC i would fly over the runway, turn around, and try again. After flying the crosswind, downwind, and base legs of the pattern, i set myself up for a second final. My glide slope was perfect... at first. Then i realized with my engine at idle, i wasn't going to stay airborne long enough to reach the runway. So i added power to get myself a little more time. Unfortuantely, i didn't add enough power to fix my airspeed. As a last resort, i tried very forcefully manuvering the joystick to fix my flight path.
The outcome was thus: my front wheels hit the dirt about 100 feet from the threshold of runway 23, and my precious plane went tail-over-nose. I'm not sure what the aviation term for this manuver is, but when a human does it, i call it a "faceplant."
At the very least, this crash occured in the safety of cyberspace.
The morale of this story is... WATCH YOUR DAMN AIRSPEED, PILOT!
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hyperbolic
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | At the very least, this crash occured in the safety of cyberspace. |
Dying in the crash of a private plane is more statistically likely than dying in a commercial plane crash. (Even though flying commercial is safer than driving a car, statistically speaking.) |
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T-rav20
Wandering Albatross
Joined: Jan 06, 2007
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Location: South Jersey
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Trust your instruments, 999,999 times out of 1,000,000 they're right and your perception is wrong.
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jolly_magpie
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Joined: Feb 18, 2007
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Location: Vancouver Island
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:33 am Post subject: |
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I have thousands of hours on flightsims but I just don't have fun if there isn't a gunsight in front of me.
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Roxas_XIII
Shur'tugal (Dragon Rider)
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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Same here. They need a new version of CombatFlightSim...
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jolly_magpie
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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CFS is in version 3 and it pretty much sux unless you get the Firepower addon. Even then...
Il-2 Sturmovik is terrific but has a few AI issues. There's a new version coming out later this year called Storm of War: Battle of Britain. Can't wait!!
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