Your most difficult, scary flight in FS!

fliger747 said:
Ummmm When I ran out of fuel in a 737-400 at night during the round the world race, at night in Africa, 20 miles from the field and deadsticked it to land in the first 300 ft of the runway.....
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lololol....

Goodness! lolol..


That reminds me. I tried a flight from LAX to Hawaii in the 737 (stock FS bird). Ran out of fuel just before the island, perhaps 100 miles out. I tried it 3 times in a row thinking I did something wrong in fuel burn. Found out later that 737's that run to Hawaii are fitted with long range tanks, (in real world). Found that out a bit late, lol.
 
fliger747 said:
Ummmm When I ran out of fuel in a 737-400 at night during the round the world race, at night in Africa, 20 miles from the field and deadsticked it to land in the first 300 ft of the runway.....
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:bump:

This makes me remember an odd yet hair raising accident I had. It was the first times I flew the SGA MD80. Decided for a simple LIML - LICR. My Flight plan brought me over Rome, and overflew LIRA...

How do I still remember this? Simply because when I got just over this airport, at FL300, I had a sudden double flameout.

At today I still can't fathom what the heck happened. I had fuel, everything was in perfect working order, the panel was a simple one with simple gauges with no failure codes, and still the turbines simply whined to a stop in flight. :confused:

Nothing I did, not even repeated instances of the CTRL-E maneuver, was able to start them up again, so I closed the default ATC IFR flight plan, offed the autopilot, and began to dead stick the plane on one of the nearby LIRF's long runways, while all the way cursing and trying to restart the engines.

It was when I was about to line up to the 34R, always trying the CTRL-E maneuver in the by then farther and farther hope for the engines to restart, that after engine 1 failed to start up yet again, engine 2 decided to roar up back to life.

Long story short, with one engine available the landing was a lot less stressful than a dead-stick one, and with a lesser emergency degree as well. I taxied the plane to a parking and, before calling it a day, tried a last time the CTRL-E maneuver... and this time, when it was not needed anymore, engine 1 too started up. :rolleyes:
 
I'm not that easily scared; the ATC however... ;)


Willy said:
Every time I've had the baton in the RTW race and it's been dark or the weather is terrible. That's when the pressure comes on.
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Yep, I know how that feels!
I think it was my second RTW race when Panaka and me flew a pair of B-2 bombers to an Island somewhere in the Pacific. A three-hour or so flight at high subsonic speeds with a steep descent to the field with a lot of team mates waiting for us. The weather was somewhat rough with a lot of turbulence and with so many other aircraft on the ground my framerates went to single digits on finals.. Fortunately I made it in one piece!

Another RTW flight took us to Flores in the Atlantic. The first baton holder and his wingman had both crashed and I was on attempt #3. By now it was nighttime so I had to put my 777 down on that short field in total darkness, after a long flight. I missed the first approach and decided to go around for another try. Just as I crossed the threshold my mains touched the ground and Fs registered a crash............. My heart skipped a few beats there!
 
Sorry to hear that Ferry.

Sometimes, landings (in FS land) are just doomed... arrgh.


Originally Posted by fliger747
Ummmm When I ran out of fuel in a 737-400 at night during the round the world race, at night in Africa, 20 miles from the field and deadsticked it to land in the first 300 ft of the runway....
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There is a famous historic incident where a flight in an Airbus over the Atlantic ocean, ran out of fuel at 40,000 feet. One of the tanks had a leak and as it drained out, the fuel system replaced it with the other tanks fuel to keep the aircraft balanced. The pilots werent aware until the first engine actually ran dry and stalled. Then the second. At that point, the jet became a very big glider. Miraculously, they found a island out there in the middle of no where, that had a runway the length of the Island. (Very small Island). That pilot put it down right in the middle!

I think their glide time was 40 min's, if memory serves correctly. Very famous. As a matter of fact, FSX has the rebuilt scenario as a mission if you want to try it yourself.



Bill
 
Ferry, I remember the Flores Incident well and still don't know how I made it in the Comet 4B. I do know I had a very low approach and kept the trees in sight using the landing lights.

Then there was the night that you and I were flying into mountains with baton to reach a bonus airport without going over the proscribed altitude. I don't know how many P-38s we flew into the cumulogranite before we gave up and went to a different airport.
 
Yeah I remember that one Willy.. IIRC you crashed on the first attempt, and I overstressed a Hornet trying to avoid a mountain suddenly popping up..
 
This one's always a pleasure at the end of a flight

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