Dumbest thing you ever did in flight.

[Buizel_411]

Lets see.... How about forgetting to uninstall your highly detailed TNCM scenery that gives you 4 FPS and attempting to land... But my
friend from a multiplayer server put gear and flaps down for landing at FL200 at 300KIAS, but he wasn't trying to crash, lol. The gear hit the
engines and the broke off, and he hit the rnwy too hard and flipped. It took 30 minutes before he was back, since the crash was so bad,
LOL. BTW, he was in a 747, lol. And my other friend, who is much younger than me, was over at my house and I made him a FsP company. After practically killing the pax with G-forces, I helped him line up for landing. His gear were up at 0.3nm out, and he was about 1000ft to high, but before i could say anything he nose dived into the rnwy! XD He smiled, turned to me, and asked "did I do it?" But the funeral music answered him... But MY dumbest thing would be screwing up my pitch trim in a Posky 747, and failed to takeoff... Quite sadly there was a large building at the end of the rnwy.



Post Edited ( 04-21-08 02:29 )

[Buizel_411]

And the moral of this thread is... WE ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BE PILOTS!!! lol

[Powerke]

And the moral of this thread is... WE ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BE PILOTS!!! lol

I think you would be surprized about some "real"pilots ......

Everybody screws up from time to time , only big difference here is that the "real"pilots dont have a RESET FLIGHT option

[Aegean]

Well..I received a -150 penalty (If I remember the number right..) because...: I forgot to switch on the beacon lgihts at starting engines and for the
whole flight..

[SirN]

I haven't done soo much dumb things in MS FS... Loading it too heavy in the rear, and I did not understand why I could not steer when
taxeing and then all of a sudden sitting on the tail at thrust...

But I can tell you about something from a long time ago, it was when I had Amiga500 and Falcon flight simulator. You know that war
game came with an 200 page printed manual and coverred everything in that game... And about landing there was only a small section
saying:
" When you should land, use speed brakes and thrust to lower the speed to 180 knots. Extend your landing gear and set down your rear
wheels on the runway first." And soo I did... At altitude 3000ft... I lowerred my speed and put my gears out and raised my nose to gently go
down to the runway and get the rear wheels down first. I stalled over and over again up there at 3000ft and I did not know why - I followed
the manual precisely... In the end (after stalling 100 times almost) I dicided to kamikaze to the runway just to see what happened in the
game and that was the moment I learnt that if I dove down to the runway and kept the speed up then I could level off just above the runway
and set the rear wheels down first! I learnt it the hard way, believe me!

After managing that in the Falcon I was able to land in every game and I was having a lot of fun landing the F117 on the hangar ship even,
although landing on an hangar ship was very much like controlled crashing... Great fun anyway!

[Powerke]

Landing manually is one of the most enjoyable things in FS9.

That reminds me of a flight i did in a Cesna 182 ....

Was trying to land at EBAW (Belgium,Deurne airport) with the real weather turned on,
as soon that i got below 2000 ft my plane got pummeled by severe crosswinds , i was unable to land that little plane
on the tarmac ....and i was forced to land on the grass several meters to the right of the runway.

That i forgot to turn the seatbelts sign to ON was not appriciated by the 2 PAX i had aboard.

The thing i learned from that is to put my personal pride aside and notify ATC for a go arround
(and not to use the 'real" weather option when its terrible weather outside )

[Oskar]

probably put the gear & flaps down without checking airspeed .. and once i've turned on a movie in a 25 minutes flight

[CulchaCandela]

today i did a 9 hour flight (without time acceleration) and "crashed" after landing while taxing. The wingspan was wider than expected and the wingtip
"touched" a building at the arrival airport --->> CRASH!!!.......9 hours for nothing...
^^

marty



Post Edited ( 05-24-08 02:18 )

[dschoene]

Well, yesterday was a new entry in my "flight stupidity" log

I'm soon to crack C6 with my company that I re-started on my new fs9-dedicated gaming machine. So i preparation I started evaluating some machinery to
purchase as C6. I'm most likely to go big-Turboprop rather than hop on a jet right away, so yesterdays candidates fro evaluation were Samdim's AN-24
and Flight1's ATR-72.

Well, what I was about to learn is: never and fly. It might be a nice thing to enjoy a well-deserved beer or twelve after a long day at work,
but your landings aren't getting any better, nor the judgement. Thank goodness it wasn't a FSP flight
That must have been the first time that I flew a nice approach only to land on the taxi-way

[fsaddict]

Trying to land behind a plane that has already landed and is less than halfway down the runway....
Did I mention that the plane on the Runway was a 182 and I was flying the triple seven......

I should have listened to the ATC when they told me to go around......

[Valoran]

My last WT flight I was decending into destination with AT and AP on in my ERJ-145. I was also reading a good book at the time.
hmmmmm...I forgot that I was supposed to switch back from Mach to IAS on the AT at 17,800 ft. Yup...klaxons roaring at 16,000 I threw
my book across the room and tried to save the situation. I kept the plane in one piece but lost 600 points from an otherwise routine
flight. grrrrrrrr

[AryaTanner]

Number 1

I had a friend over, this friend being an avid pilot, and we decided to fly to Iceland. I chose BIKF, Keflavik as destination, since I\ve noticed that
757's and such fly there. Now the trouble starts, I decide to go to BIRK, Reykjavik instead, because the capital should have the longest airstrip,
right? So we start from Aberdeen, and fly towards Iceland. Over the Faroes, my friend decides to take the lead, and we have an uneventful flight until
the approach. My friend touches down at the beginning of the runway, Autobrake on max, and braking in every way possible. He landed with a speed of
180, and crashed into some trees at the end of the runway, going in 80.

Number 2

During a landing at Heathrow, I forgot the autothrottle on. I landed three or four times before ran out of runway, and smashed into an inconveniently
placed building.

Number 3

At EKCH, Copenhagen I mixed up the runways, and landed at the wrong one. Turns out, it wasn't empty, and I aim for the concrete, and swerve around the
plane in front of me, a Dash Q400 belonging to SAS.



All the flights have been with the default 737-400, Painted in the British Airways(Chelsea Rose) Livery

[dannye92]

forgetting to turn off the autothrottle on the a321 landing in Dublin


did 3 go arounds before i noticed lol

[Den Dee]

LOL, some pretty scary stuff in this thread Here are mine, these are not nesessarily the dumbest ones, just the ones that came to mind.

FLying a C208B.

After climb: "Hmm, what the heck is it with speed?..."
15 mins into cruise: "Guess I overestimated my cruise capability with this payload..."
30 mins into cruise: "Aha!!! Flaps up. Problem solved"

Landing in Mogadisho.

"Wait, there can't be THAT much crosswind... hmmm... Autopilot off. Problem solved"
"Them 3rd world airports sure could use some more lighting... Oh wait. Taxi/land lights on. Problem solved" (way after landing)

[Razgriz_10000]

well the dumbest thing i ever did in fsp was.....ohhh i was in concorde @ 60,000 ft and i accidentally hit shift + E and well you can pretty
much guess what happened after that...lol