T-K's Andean (mis)Adventures

Well that was an interesting landing! I had nothing to navigate with apart from a compass and stop watch and as I crossed the last ridge I was frantically looking around for the airport when suddenly I spotted the VASI lights off in the distance to my 3 o'clock position. It was a mad scramble to get the speed down and everything out as I dived for the strip. I am just thankful that it was another loooong runway as I came in hot and was 1/3 of the way down it before I was slow enough to touch down. Phew!

Arrived at SCKP

Fuel Used: 1610.0 lbs
Flight Time: 00:50:05
Maintenance Points: 0
 
ARRRGHHHH!!! Just got to TOC and wasn't paying full attention to the sim when I heard the overspeed alarm going off. I got about 5 seconds of OS before it went POOF! :pop4::isadizzy:

So much for flight sim's 60 seconds of accumulated OS before you crash! :angryfir:

Back to SCDA. :crybaby:
 
No idea. I pulled back on the throttle and kicked out the AP so that I could ease back on the stick to climb and lose speed and that's as far as I got. I don't think it was an over-stress crash (at least it didn't say so) so can only assume it was an overspeed issue. The Duenna didn't give any clues either.
 
Gosh, Larry. FSX doesn't seem quite as friendly as FS9 in giving us a warning. Ouch.

How much time in overspeed did the Duenna record? (More generally, does FSX give the same amount of overspeed as FS9? Or do we know this?)
 
MM said:
Gosh, Larry. FSX doesn't seem quite as friendly as FS9 in giving us a warning. Ouch.

How much time in overspeed did the Duenna record?
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5.1 seconds

MM said:
(More generally, does FSX give the same amount of overspeed as FS9? Or do we know this?)
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It's usually 60 seconds of accumulated time like FS9. During pre-event testing I did notice that Jen's DC-4 is particularly sensitive to overspeed blow ups though and I have been very careful up to this point to stay below the yellow band on the ASI. I just got distracted this time and forget to throttle back at the TOC point as it will overspeed in level flight below about 12,000 ft if you are at max. throttle.
 
An aggravation to be sure Larry ... sorry Dude.


I can't recall the "how-to" portion of the project, but Mike (n3306tx) and myself took the overspeed alarm out of one of the default Boeing(s) or maybe the Lear and put it in some of the race planes that had none at all.

Excuse the pathetic memory, but you get the idea ... wasn't all that hard to do once we found what we were looking for .... I think it was just a little copy and paste work.


Sure did work well on at least a couple of instances.
 
salt_air said:
I can't recall the "how-to" portion of the project, but Mike (n3306tx) and myself took the overspeed alarm out of one of the default Boeing(s) or maybe the Lear and put it in some of the race planes that had none at all.

Excuse the pathetic memory, but you get the idea ... wasn't all that hard to do once we found what we were looking for .... I think it was just a little copy and paste work.


Sure did work well on at least a couple of instances.
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I did put an overspeed alarm on it that I use on my RTWR aircraft in FS9 because I found out it had 'issues' during pre-event testing. I can't remember where it came from but this one has a bell/horn and a voice shouting 'Retard!' That's what alerted me to the problem in the first place but I still only got 5.1 seconds before she blew up.

Unfortunately it only works in the VC/panel view so if you are in external view you are stuffed!
 
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