Confession Time

harrybasset

harrybasset

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OBIO posted on the Cessna Big Twin thread that his piloting skills may leave something to be desired, thanks OBIO for breaking an FS Taboo and confessing you can crash almost anything. I too will come clean and confess that I regularly make smoking holes in runways. I can usually make walk away landings of most straight wing piston egined planes but it all comes apart literally if I try a touch down with any swept wing jet. Try as much as I can and I always come to grief.How many others are keen but hamfisted?
 
Sim pilots can walk away from smoking holes or ripples in the water. :wavey:
 
only crashed my personal F-104 in sim, bloomin' wind shear! nice approach, hit a nice quiet pocked and dropped like a large chunk of lead! most of my landings are silky but that F-104 boy is she touchy! good excuse for a repaint though! scratches along the underside from the few occasions i've forgotten to lower the gear :monkies:
 
My landings vary, some I get silky smooth every time - like the Bulldog and the A-22 Foxbat. Others like the Vulcan Isometimes get wrong (too little power and then a stall). While still more I don't even bother trying to land unless I wan't to see some carnage.
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Smoothie said:
i've forgotten to lower the gear :monkies:
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Glad to know that I am not the only one who has forgotten to lower the gear...most cases where I have forgotten to lower the gear is in CFS2, trying to make a successful carrier landing. I get so preoccupied getting the hook down, the flaps set right, getting my air speed and glide path just perfect to hit that moving and pitching deck that I forget to lower the wheels. And I refuse to listen to the LSO...that guy is an idiot...when he waves me off. I KNOW that I am properly lined up, at the right speed, at the right glide path...and do not realize that I have not lowered my gear until the belly of my plane slams onto the deck.

Most of my sim crashes are a direct result of me doing stupid things....hammer head stalls in 747s, trying to do barrel rolls 30 feet off the run way. I can take off just fine, fly just fine, land just fine...but when I start doing stupid things, my piloting skills go out the window and I turn my plane into a potato plow.

The only plane I have not been successful flying is Piglet's A-5 on Hard with total realism. I have not made it more than 10 feet from lift off before I stall and do an insane crash and burn. That A-5 just hates me!

OBIO
 
Me,

I've been crashing more than half the time now that I am trying to get the Helo thing down :kilroy:

LouP :icon_lol:
 
Ive been simming for 6 years or so and im pretty good with almost anything now but its been an uphill struggle, the only problems i have these days are some cold war 50's fighters and the few classic tube-liners i have esp DM's VC10, i think ive bought the farm in BOAC's entire fleet,
a dont worry about the A-5 obio, it dos'nt like me much either.
By the way, should'nt it be Panthering, not crashing.
cheers ian
 
I can usually at least make it into a crash on-runway! With Helos, usually within 500 ft. of my desired location, too... but that still doesn't mean that my passengers or any random plane-spotter remains alive when I finish...
I tend to approach too high, and I tend to fly small planes. When I fly something bigger like a B-17, Connie, or (heaven forbid!) a Seven-Thirty-Seven, I usually grease the landing because then my landing height is more or less correct.
 
Like OBIO I learned that forgetting to lower the gear when trapping is not a good idea in CFS2 or any other FS for that matter. Frustration compelled me to always fly with a Spot View window open and I still have this habit in FS9 regardless of what I'm currently flying.
I am confident landing pretty much anything by now... that includes Helis if I REALLY want to :icon_lol:
Carrier landings in FS9 is an entirely different affair for me. I have good days and bad days. On a bad day I tend to blame the carrier or the aircraft I'm flying... on a good day I praise myself. A bad day can cause me to not fly carrier ops. for a while. If ever I run out of challenges in FS, I return to trapping... it's always rewarding whether the recovery is successful or "oops" try again. :running:
 
I'll admit it I am not even close to being the best virtual pilot out there. I've pranged many a crate in my day, starting way back in my fs5 days when I flew a Lear 35 all the way from Boston to Chicago Midway only to pancake just short of the runway. Since then me and jets never really mixed. Generally if it has less than four engines and piston powered I am usually good to go; otherwise...well...let's just say that is one of several reasons I don't do the virtual airline thing (that and it just seems too much like real work)
 
more times then not I wined up in the dirt on landing. I find that FS's ground handling has much to be desired, even for stock aircraft.
 
At Transload, I have a reputation for being the owner of Tom's Lumber whenever there's trees cloase to the approach! I've also been known to dabble in mining when we landed at Lukla!:isadizzy:
 
Ok I confess im the Backcourse king for landing at overspeed, but give me a P-47 and call the fire dept I cant for the life of me get the landing down. Oh at transload im the Overspeed Demon of the skies:redfire:.
 
I'm getting better at the over speed issue. For a long time, I fired up the engines, went to full power and kept it there the entire time I was flying the plane. Now, I am getting to the point that I am pulling back on power, adjusting prop pitch and mixture....trying to act like a real pilot and not just a ham-fisted swivel chair pilot. Still have a lot to learn about piloting a plane really....navigation is basically a mystery to me...I know how to read a compass, but getting from point A to point B without using the GPS to show me the way is beyond me. The finer points of fuel management, cruise speed settings, climb settings, landing prep, all that jazz...totally new to me. VFR, IFR....I know one is navigating by visual land markers, the other is navigating by instruments....that's as much as I know about those subjects. I really need to stop downloading and tweaking and painting planes and spend a good 6 months or so just flying planes. The longest flight I have taken since getting FS9 is from Mansfield, Ohio (KMFD) to Columbus, Ohio...a 15 minute fight that got turned into a 45 minute flight due to air traffic control.

OBIO
 
i usually try to fly "by the books," but i often take chances that i would never do in real life. This usually happens on landings; where i'm coming in too high or too fast, but i still try to put the plane down instead of going around....i've crashed many times doing this.

oh, and i don't follow airspace rules in FS9...takes too much pre-planning...haha...this had led to a few mid-air collisions w/ airliners...

-feng
 
Some great comments on here guys. It helps to know I'm not the only one with problems. To save virtual lives and expensive aircraft can anyone reccomend any tutorials for handling fighter jets?
 
OBIO said:
I'm getting better at the over speed issue. For a long time, I fired up the engines, went to full power and kept it there the entire time I was flying the plane. Now, I am getting to the point that I am pulling back on power, adjusting prop pitch and mixture....trying to act like a real pilot and not just a ham-fisted swivel chair pilot. Still have a lot to learn about piloting a plane really....navigation is basically a mystery to me...I know how to read a compass, but getting from point A to point B without using the GPS to show me the way is beyond me. The finer points of fuel management, cruise speed settings, climb settings, landing prep, all that jazz...totally new to me. VFR, IFR....I know one is navigating by visual land markers, the other is navigating by instruments....that's as much as I know about those subjects. I really need to stop downloading and tweaking and painting planes and spend a good 6 months or so just flying planes. The longest flight I have taken since getting FS9 is from Mansfield, Ohio (KMFD) to Columbus, Ohio...a 15 minute fight that got turned into a 45 minute flight due to air traffic control.

OBIO
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if you try to "fly by the books," FS9 becomes a whole new sim. I used to do "whatever" style flying a few years back, and spent more time collecting planes, etc. But overtime, it became boring, since if you don't fly these planes correctly, they all pretty much feel like the same thing.

So a year ago, i deleted almost all the planes except for the best ones (good VC, flight dynamics, etc), and i printed out all the manuals and read them just like a real POH. Each plane now feels so different from each other, and you start to "fall in love" with them. Start at cold-and-dark and do everything by the books. Navigate from VOR to VOR, or plan your route using the GPS (not a straight line, but use the STARS/SID points, etc). Trust me, when you finally touch down and shut off the final switch, the feeling is almost like the real deal. I sometimes get a cold-sweat after a tough virtual flight....just like in real life.

I recommend the following planes if you want to "do it by the books." These planes all have great visuals (VCs, exteriors, etc), but they also have very deep system simulations:

- Aeroworx Super King Air 200 (twin...very complicated engine management)
- Digital Aviation Cheyenne (twin)
- Dreamfleet Baron 58 (twin, the easiest to manage of the three)
- Flight1 Cessna 172 (use this to learn your VORs, IFRs, etc.)

- Flight1 ATR-500 (breathtaking system modeling....i love this plane!)

-feng
 
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