02-07-2013, 10:17 PM
At 1% failure rate you should not see many but I find that they tend to happen in a series and then nothing for extended periods.
After some 60 or so FSP trips without incident, had a string of errors across different FSP airlines:
TCA Connie out of Vancouver, lost an engine on takeoff, circled and made a superb 2-engine overweight landing. Two-engines because I
shut the wrong one down initially and did not have time to restart it.
Three flights later, different Connie, successful wheels up landing at Prestwick, Scotland on the first leg of a trans-Atlantic trip to Montreal.
Two flights later (different FSP airline, same failure rate): HJG Convair 990 lost oil pressure during takeoff roll at Amon Carter Field, Forth
Worth TX. Shut down defective engine and rejected takeoff for a whack of points.
Next flight, Douglas DC-6B, flap failure coming into LaGuardia NYC. Prop reverse came in handy to keep from getting wet after a ugly,
high-speed landing with in a nasty cross-wind.
That was about 50 FSP flights ago, since then, nada...
The Team Constellation L-1049 that I use has built in failures should you abuse the engines or hydraulics that FSP does not recognize
but you can avoid these just by flying according to the numbers, leaving FSP to create your problems.
The Toronto Island Airport was always a nice place for a kid to plane spot (for GA anyway) back in the sixties but I haven't been there since
1979. Hated when they renamed it Billy Bishop Airport, that honour should have stayed with little Owen Sound municipal field.
Cheers.
After some 60 or so FSP trips without incident, had a string of errors across different FSP airlines:
TCA Connie out of Vancouver, lost an engine on takeoff, circled and made a superb 2-engine overweight landing. Two-engines because I
shut the wrong one down initially and did not have time to restart it.
Three flights later, different Connie, successful wheels up landing at Prestwick, Scotland on the first leg of a trans-Atlantic trip to Montreal.
Two flights later (different FSP airline, same failure rate): HJG Convair 990 lost oil pressure during takeoff roll at Amon Carter Field, Forth
Worth TX. Shut down defective engine and rejected takeoff for a whack of points.
Next flight, Douglas DC-6B, flap failure coming into LaGuardia NYC. Prop reverse came in handy to keep from getting wet after a ugly,
high-speed landing with in a nasty cross-wind.
That was about 50 FSP flights ago, since then, nada...
The Team Constellation L-1049 that I use has built in failures should you abuse the engines or hydraulics that FSP does not recognize
but you can avoid these just by flying according to the numbers, leaving FSP to create your problems.
The Toronto Island Airport was always a nice place for a kid to plane spot (for GA anyway) back in the sixties but I haven't been there since
1979. Hated when they renamed it Billy Bishop Airport, that honour should have stayed with little Owen Sound municipal field.
Cheers.