Flaps, I don't need no stinking flaps! or gear or ....

[Spectre230]

Approach flaps in King Air at 150 KIAS making tight, descending turn to final at KSEA. Speed crept up beyond max flaps speed.....bye bye.
How conveniant in a plane with no speed brakes This distracted me to the point of forgetting to lower my gear. Funny how my co-pilot
could bring up that I blew off the flaps but couldn't bother to tell me the gear wasn't down - that's it, he's fired!
Imagine my suprise after executing a wonderful very low approach to near stall speed then greasing....no, screeching the numbers.
Passengers were pissed....1600 penalty points....screw-em.

IT'S MY PLANE, I BOUGHT IT, I BROKE IT, I REBUILT IT (repeat again and again) I'LL FLY IT ANYWAY I LIKE!

Next flight. I boarded my passengers at the runway threshold to save taxi time then proceded to takeoff WITHOUT CLOSING THE &#$%
DOOR

Seriously, if your PC has a good sound card and speakers....crank it up and try this - ah, the mayhem!
[/i]Once again, a brilliant approach and landing.
Once again, the passengers were pissed....1400 penalty points....busted back to C3 yada,yada,yada....

I'm beginnig to see a pattern. Could be the pre-flight briefings with my plane co-owners (Dr. Smirnoff and Dr. Quervo)

I'm never gonna get out of props

[Jason]

LOL

[timtomairways]

wow

[Wreck1463]

Checklists....
there for a reason.

Not that I've ever "forgotten" a checklist on purpose in flight simulator, definately not to save time and get more money quicker for FSP...

As you can see, costs you more in the long run.

Thankfully, I'm pretty conservative in the real cockpit, 'cause you'd be amazed what a checklist can catch for you that you'd normaly skip right over.

[Joeflyer]

Don't feel bad, Wreck. I just completed a A320 flight, PAKT-KSUU, but during the descent, the autopilot kicked off without command and the airplane
went into a dive of death Fortunately I was able to quickly arrest the rate of descent but the paxs were screaming their wigs off. I just threw
a box of bones in the cabin so the paxs could gnaw on them until after landing At any rate, gotta love the new Wilco Airbus I
bought....what a semi piece of junk software. My company rep is down to 96% because of this episode. More beer to follow...

[969SQN]

As far as I can remember the worst I have done was cutting of the fuel on 3 of my engines on the pmdg 747 over China at 35000 and see if I could land it.
The one problem was that I turned the engines off over a vast amount of mountains and the nearest airport that could hold a 747 was over 11000nm away
and that I couldn't start the engines back up as I didn't know how too. I do now of-course. Shows you that drinking and flying dont mix well at all, as you will
end up doing something ridiculously stupid Anyways I still manage to fly and drink at the same time and come out fighting another day

[timtomairways]

we need to whatch our stories around here

new people and visitors are going to think we are a bunch of drunks

[gbapache]

What's your point Tim?

[poden]

Ouch! Yep, a checklist is a great idea!