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Take a Learjet (or something a little bigger, I fly the CRJ-700) - start at SEQU (Quito), fly IFR to SEMA (JM Velasco Ibarra) at FL 200.

Land at rw 19. Do you succeed in one time?


I made it the second time. How good am I?

One has to rember that a CRJ is not known as what is called a STOL aircraft.
For those unfamiliar with the term STOL = SHORT TAKEOFF OR LANDING.
Landing a CRJ on a short field while can be done it is a little hard on the brakes and I for one would not make a habbit of it.

How good am I?

Do it in a 3 and then come and ask me

I made it the second time. How good am I?

Darn good if you didn't hit the crew cleaning up the mess from try #1.  

How good am I? Pretty good, I guess, conisdering I got an A300 down on the first try!

On final, everything down:



Touchdown!



And I took the CRJ700 out, got it down on the second try:

Departing RW 19:



Finally got it stopped:

I couldn't even find a Starbucks. Why land there anyway?

JKNIGHT - beautiful pics - and a beautiful landing ! (and beautiful proof!)



Do you allways land in spot-mode? I need the cockpitview - last few 100 m.'s I press W 'till I have full view. Only way for me to land.


Actually, I did land in one time, with about 120 KIAS. When I started breaking my frontwheel/frontgear (how do you call it) broke at about 90 KIAS so my nose fell on the runway.

Strange: when this happens sometimes FS tells me I crashed, but this time it didn't. So I had my plane lying with the nose on the ground. No movement possible. I had to change to an other aircraft, and back to my CRJ.
There must be a little small man (a homuncules) in mij FS9 that decides if it is a crash or not. But I don't understand him.

And, logjam: I land there because there is a landingstrip. I like to land, I like to fly ( and I don't like to crash).

I got in with one try with the CRJ-700, it really isn't that hard...

JKNIGHT - beautiful pics - and a beautiful landing ! (and beautiful proof!)



Do you allways land in spot-mode?

Negative, if you'll notice down at the bottom left-hand corner, that was taken during a replay. I don't have a snowballs chance in 'the hot place' of landing it in spot view.

Well Chomp Rock, I guess that's the difference between 5 stars and 1 .....

For me, it's a difficult landing (90 to 95 % of my landings succeed - or 5 to 10 % fails, if you want).

But I'm practising

Well Chomp Rock, I guess that's the difference between 5 stars and 1 .....

For me, it's a difficult landing (90 to 95 % of my landings succeed - or 5 to 10 % fails, if you want).

But I'm practising

Now if you want a really challenging approach search AVSIM for this file: ak_mountainridge.zip and try a landing there in the default Cessna Caravan. Might want to brush up on your short field techniqe first.  :o

Well Chomp Rock, I guess that's the difference between 5 stars and 1 .....

The stars have nothing to do with it, I'm a high hour pilot in both FS and real life. I also have a flight control setup for FS that gives me control unrivaled by most.

High hour Pilot = a pilot with a lot of flying hours?

And flying in real life?

Well, with my performance  .... (crashing 5 to 10 % of the landings) - let's keep it this way.

It doesn't seem too difficult, but it would take some near-stunt flying in a large aircraft.

In the sim world, I could probably do a large aircraft at near-stall speed to get it to drop. They key would be keeping the nose up and applying enough throttle for the plane to level out in time for a smooth landing.

I tried this airport in the B-52 yesterday w/very light payload and 50% fuel.



Taking off was steep, but doable. I'm fairly certain that landing is impossible on the cliff side, even w/full flaps, gear down, cruising at a snail-like 120 IAS.

WOW!!! Thats all I can say.