06-04-2006, 08:37 AM
The flaps penalty is applied if you forget to use them for landing or taking off, if you are already airborne then the flaps penalty does not
apply, instead what happens is that if you extend the flaps and you are above the flaps damaging speed then they will be damaged (usually
they will get stuck extended) and the co-pilot will report the fault. I don't think that there is a specific panalty for this, I can't remember for
sure, but you will of course have a nice bill to pay for the damage.
So I would think that in your case sfgiants, that one of two possibilities occured.
A. The planes flap damaging speed was above 250 knots
B. you managed to close the flaps quicke enough to prevent any damage.
I think that A is the more likely as the program is probably set to register the flap extension being activated rather than the extent to which
the flaps actually extend and for how long. I could be wrong though.
apply, instead what happens is that if you extend the flaps and you are above the flaps damaging speed then they will be damaged (usually
they will get stuck extended) and the co-pilot will report the fault. I don't think that there is a specific panalty for this, I can't remember for
sure, but you will of course have a nice bill to pay for the damage.
So I would think that in your case sfgiants, that one of two possibilities occured.
A. The planes flap damaging speed was above 250 knots
B. you managed to close the flaps quicke enough to prevent any damage.
I think that A is the more likely as the program is probably set to register the flap extension being activated rather than the extent to which
the flaps actually extend and for how long. I could be wrong though.