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The Staff of SOH
Night flying
- Thread starter Henry
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Its good fun Henry.
Great practice for learning your instrumentation as well.
If you ever get a chance, do a night flight, when its real dark, and maybe even cloudy, and do a NAV run using VOR headings, no autopilot, and maintain your courses and altitude, find your airport and land.
Sweaty palms!!!
Bill
Great practice for learning your instrumentation as well.
If you ever get a chance, do a night flight, when its real dark, and maybe even cloudy, and do a NAV run using VOR headings, no autopilot, and maintain your courses and altitude, find your airport and land.
Sweaty palms!!!
Bill
Meshman
Charter Member
What language are you speaking, Klingon?
I needed to setup some approaches on a couple of airports. Once I did I had to check them for reasonable accuracy, say within 10 miles or thereabouts. I discovered that GPS thingy and some how made it fly the approach whatever it is.
Took two aspirin and layed down for a while, as my head was hurting...:isadizzy:
20+ years of flight simming and I could qualify as the worst pilot given all that time!
Hey Rogelio!!!!...I love flying at night, try a real dark place, its full of stars on my screen and I actually have seen the Southern Cross down in these southern latitudes......here is a dilly!!!!...Fly from Miami to Panama City (MPTO) in a really dark night (FSX 01:00AM) weather= Fogged in...and make your approach tuning the Taboga VOR and shoot the ILS on 3R.....hahahahahahah, there, have fun.......
CG_1976
Ret. US Coastie/RCAF
You got that right MPTO 3R approach in any adverse WX. Gota be one the best in C.America for challenges.:ernae:Hey Rogelio!!!!...I love flying at night, try a real dark place, its full of stars on my screen and I actually have seen the Southern Cross down in these southern latitudes......here is a dilly!!!!...Fly from Miami to Panama City (MPTO) in a really dark night (FSX 01:00AM) weather= Fogged in...and make your approach tuning the Taboga VOR and shoot the ILS on 3R.....hahahahahahah, there, have fun.......
The most challenging one is Tegucigalpa, Honduras.....its really black cross and there is no night landings....pilots flying there take special courses to qualify....scary as the backdoor to hell!!!!!!
Bjoern
worst developer ever
The most challenging one is Tegucigalpa, Honduras.....its really black cross and there is no night landings....pilots flying there take special courses to qualify....scary as the backdoor to hell!!!!!!
Yep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_z5HtME9n8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkDGKggc5Lg
Courchevel and Lukla are a walk in the park compared to this. :isadizzy:
I landed there in my Cherokee a few years back on the way to Guatemala. That is a hell hole.....and pretty windy all the time, in a small plane its not that bad except for crosswinds but as those Youtubes show a 737 or 757 is really a challenge and the dam airfield is short!!!!!!I have a neighbor flying for Copa and he tells me that he has had co-pilots actually shout "we are going to crash!!!!" more than once....not very gentlemanly of the quirks!!!!
cheezyflier
Charter Member
anyone know if there is some kai tak scenery available (freeware of course) for fsx or even fs9? that would be fun to play around with
Dangerous Beans
SOH-CM-2022
That's ridiculous! Surely he would have been better off executing a go around? Looked awfully risky touching down once he was half way down the runway. Must have took some heavy braking to slow it down!
HIja' qatlh ta' SoH tlhob (yes why do you ask?)
QaPla!
<-- salutes
:d
Those shots on YouTube of landing in Hondurus are CRAZY! I have seen them before. Its almost like driving down that hill, but without touching it, (hopefully).
There is one that evidently went over the edge and crashed. There is a cliff on the other end. Grim if you dont stop in time.
What a crazy airport. If I were president there, I would close that thing down and put in a new one with a good approach.
And... WHY???? do they have to come in through pattern 'in' that valley?? Why not come in over that mountain in the background? Why?
Bill
My most memorable flight was a simple Bellingham to Forks, WA hop. It was almost dusk and I was running real weather. Before I got to Forks, weather closed in. It was too cloudy to find the airport so I started working on an alternate. I climbed west over the Pacific and got my location off the VOR. I'm figuring out where to go when my airspeed read 0...icing!
I got out of the icing conditions and setup for Port Angeles. They have an ILS and the wind was favorable - until I got there. The wind shifted to a 25 kt tailwind down the ILS. I dropped down to 1000' and got out of the clouds. I could see the runway. It all ended with a visual approach at Port Angeles, then a six pack
My most memorable flight was a simple Bellingham to Forks, WA hop. It was almost dusk and I was running real weather. Before I got to Forks, weather closed in. It was too cloudy to find the airport so I started working on an alternate. I climbed west over the Pacific and got my location off the VOR. I'm figuring out where to go when my airspeed read 0...icing!
I got out of the icing conditions and setup for Port Angeles. They have an ILS and the wind was favorable - until I got there. The wind shifted to a 25 kt tailwind down the ILS. I dropped down to 1000' and got out of the clouds. I could see the runway. It all ended with a visual approach at Port Angeles, then a six pack
Man, I have had landings like that. Some though, not so good.. But some were amazing.
Thank the Lord for FS... Saves us repair bills on real planes. :d
Holy crap on a cracker!!! :isadizzy: I really thought that tubeliner was about to become an off-road vehicle and then join its elders in that DC-3 graveyard.
As for flying at night, it is a different experience. There isn't much to be seen in terms of scenery and you really need to keep your head down and eyes focused on the instruments unless you are using an autopilot. Flying in low or zero visibility is never fun. A challenge, yes, but not fun. I doubt that real pilots enjoy it either.