07-03-2018, 05:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-03-2018, 02:53 PM by Minami Chan.)
Hi all. Today I did a little experiment. I flew a fully fueled PMDG 747 over a war zone in a holding pattern at low altitude. After having every possible failure I noticed that you will never have more than one engine out. I continued to fly the crippled jet for hours until it eventually ran out of fuel. No further engine failure after the first one.
This bugs me because when you are flying SEPs and you have an engine failure, you lose all the power, which is challenging. But later in your career you fly multi-engine jets, you will never have the opportunity to enjoy gliding an unpowered plane full of passengers.
Any ideas or thoughts?
(Btw hydraulics failure doesn’t seem to affect the flight controls. Is this because of PMDG’s own failure model?)
Happy flying.
Minami Chan
This bugs me because when you are flying SEPs and you have an engine failure, you lose all the power, which is challenging. But later in your career you fly multi-engine jets, you will never have the opportunity to enjoy gliding an unpowered plane full of passengers.
Any ideas or thoughts?
(Btw hydraulics failure doesn’t seem to affect the flight controls. Is this because of PMDG’s own failure model?)
Happy flying.
Minami Chan