Hydraulics Failures?

[xvxmatthewxvx]

I did a search and didn't find the answer.


I know although they have happened like..... 5 times in history only in the real world, but are they modelled in FSP?

I can't imagine they would be hard to model. To model a hydraulics failure you basically just need to have a flaps and gear failure and
lock the stick/yoke. To get the gear down just manually pump the gear down.

I wondered if this is or could be modelled but make the chances of it happening way way below the fixed failures percentage you choose.

And it IS still possible to land with a hydraulics failure, but its very hard. I don't know about any of you, but every week Friday at 10PM EST
on the Discovery Channel they show a airline disaster and its very interesting. Not the yesterday Friday, but last week they had a Iraqi
cargo A300 that got hit by a AA missle on its left wing. (I believe this accident happened in 2003, not sure) After a few minutes they lost all
hydraulics and had to land the aircraft using engines only.

After seeing that disaster I just had to try and recreate it with my Level-D 767 and I was able to land/turn/decend/climb only using engine
power! Anyways I did it although I couldn't keep it straight on the runway after touchdown I was able to stop and no crash.

So it is possible to land, although very difficult. Is this modelled in FSP? If not how do you guys think about having this failure in FSP but at
a lower than normal chance of happening? Also this isn't a stupid failure like to model a random explosion or something, as that isn't fair. And out of the 4 times I have watched this aircraft crash program on Discovery Channel 3 of them had something to do with hydraulics failures. So I think its reasonable to put in as this is somewhat common in aircraft crashes.



Post Edited ( 12-10-05 15:17 )

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I had one yesterday cost me 300,117.00 to fix my citation x.

[WE411]

I had a hydraulic failure today..
One brake decided to fail ... So I had to land - and stop the aircraft - with only one brake.

>> http://www.weaf.dk/fspva/FsPlistflight.p...flight=125 <<

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thats the same problem I had http://www.eliteairva.com/Operations/operations.html Flight 842

[xvxmatthewxvx]

Oh no. Hehe, I didn't mean brake failures, but total hydraulic failures. (In other words you can't steer)

[Blicka13]

xvxmatthewxvx wrote:
Oh no. Hehe, I didn't mean brake failures, but total hydraulic failures. (In other words you can't steer)

What on earth would the point of that be? "You failed to prevent your aircraft from crashing into the ocean following a complete loss of steering and
hydraulics. You did not perform very well here (-3000 Points)"

Blake

[SWAFO]

Complete Hydraulic failures are virtually non-existent. If you look at a hydraulic-system diagram for a large commercial aircraft, you'll
notice how many redundencies are modelled. It's nearly impossible (I'm not going to jinx myself though!)

[xvxmatthewxvx]

Oh yes I know its nearly impossible. But somewhat significant number of crashes or near crashes were a result of complete hydraulic
failures because of physical damage on the plane and the hydro fluid slowly drained from the aircraft until none was left. I know its nearly impossible as most aircraft have 3??? systems to compensate. Japan Airlines B747 was a result of complete
hydralic failure, an Iraqi cargo flight A300 a couple of years back, aswell as a MD11 or DC10 from Delta or United aswell. The 2 former
mentioned were not complete crashes, as they landed and turned using only engine power.



Post Edited ( 12-11-05 20:17 )