Reliable!

It's incredible how reliable these sim aircraft are...

I always do my preflight inspection and have never had any water in the
fuel, birds nest in the cowling or even a low tire. Even when it's freezing
cold they always start on the first crank.

That'll be the next thing -

Real equipment failure built in to your FS aircraft and having to pay
customer support to replace a failed virtual magneto, and can you imagine
having to pay for virtual fuel and landing fees. LOL!!!

I'm surprised someone hasn't thought of that as a way to make a fast buck!!

Who knows where this might lead?

Hoss

"Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote:


Now don't you start something - next thing we get is to download our
choice of AI birds who will nest in the cowling ;(((

What's next - insects that plug up out pitot tubes????

-=tom=-

Dallas wrote:

Actually it's weird you should say that. I just had a bizarre problem.

I was flying the Cessna Grand Caravan for the first time. I have
failures turned off--nothing should go wrong on my aircraft. I had just
left SION and was in the climb when my hand bumped the left side of the
yoke. I didn't think I hit any button but it was hard to be sure. At
the same instant, everything electrical in the cockpit went dead. Also
no flaps. (Thank god the plane didn't have retractable gear or I'd have
probably been hosed there too.) I still had my non-electronic
instruments but that was it. No battery warning light. I tried
pressing every button on the yoke and flipping every switch on the
screen just to see if somehow I'd disengaged something, but I didn't
think I could have hit anything that mattered--and nothing helped.
Since I needed GPS to get where I had planned to go, I had no choice but
to turn the plane around and head back to SION and land. This I did,
though I rolled out all the way to the end of the runway since I'd come
in rather fast, lacking flaps. Even though this was just a sim, it was
kind of a scary experience. :-)



John

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I did have a low oil pressure light on takeoff in the King Air once. I
aborted and went through the checklists again. No problem the sencond try,
so I must have done something wrong.

I wish I there was a slider to adjust reliability so I could occasionally
have something take a vacation. With the default failures its a lot of work
to set up something like that, and I always know when its coming.
"Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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freezing

FSD-International's 115TC has maintenance costs for the Commander
115TC. I haven't checked it yet, but I think at 25 hours it
calculates how much it'd cost to repair it based upon the way you
treated the engine, etc...


On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:01:30 -0000, "Hoss"
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We'll all have to befriend VATSIM's equivalent of A&P mechanics...


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well, you did the right thing. maybe it was only the electrical
system, but what if you decided to continue and that was only the
beginning - more things started going out (like the engine)


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Anyone out there fly the FSD Commander 115TC? sometimes the oil psi
goes way down and I dunno why - IRL I'd be finding the nearest A&P but
since it's a sim...


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George Lewis wrote:

Well, I'd hit reset.

In real life, however, I'd probably die. :-)



J

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