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I'm sure its a conspiracy... I've not been too well for the last couple of days .. only a head cold but enough to make me feel miserable. Today I thought I would spend my time constructively (Well simming  ;D).

I set up a nice 2000+ mile flight in the newly posted Potsky Cathay Pacific A340. Hong Kong to Deli ... nice for a few hous bus driving. Took off nicely .... poddled up to cruising altitude and sat back to enjoy the scenery. It got a bit bumpy so climbed a few thousand feet for smoother air. Got some spectacular views over the Himalayas. Everything was going great untill it came to landing.

Everything lined up .... trimmed ... started to knock some speed off ... at that time my wife decides to disguss the arrangements for our impending visit to the pub tonight. At this point I turned round and missed the P button to pause. On turning back I find the aircraft still flying ... but only just  and barely above the scenery. I wack on full power and pull back on the stick only to be greeted by the fast approaching ground 2 miles short of the runway.

What is it about Wives/Kids/Pets and Phonecalls do they have 6th sense .... Something about landing patterns obviously triggers something ....."YESSSS he's landing lets get in his face!!!".

Ach well tis only a sim ......... God help them if they try it on a real Pilot.

5hrs flying and no landing shots... should have saved the flight with half an hour to go ... but still you live and learn.

cheers
eno

Don't worry Eno!
I nearly always get asked to hold the baby when on final... if its a dead-stick then the baby just lands in my lap

Don't worry Eno!
I nearly always get asked to hold the baby when on final... if its a dead-stick then the baby just lands in my lap

I'm not going to say anything about dead sticks ... and babies  ;D

Instal a door with a lock on your computer room.  Get one of those "do not distrub" maid tags that says "on final".  When you're about to come down from cruise slap the tag on the door and lock it.  Turn the volume WAY up and ignore the rest of the world.

Geez, do I have to come up with ALL the solutions?

[quote]Instal a door with a lock on your computer room.

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I could do that in the old house ........ now I just have to pin the signs on my back...it doesn't quite work and the pins leave holes and bruises

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I'm dissappointed.

"Them indoors" have an unerring knack for doing this. I think they learn it from their mums. Fortunately I'm happily divorced & no longer bothered by this annoying little habit of theirs.

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Now there's an idea ...... sacrifice a child ...... one less to disturb me

lol, I don't have any young kids, but I have 4 cats, a dog two sisters, and parents to take care of the bugging...

worst is when I'll be on final and one of the cats decides to walk in front of my monitor...

talk about FULL IFR! :-)

eno - get yourself autosave.dll. Pop it in your modules folder and it quietly saves your flight every few minutes.

Then when your lovely wife decides that she craves your love and companionship just at that crucial moment  :-/ should you have an accident  ??? you can just recover the flight from an autosave complete with all the settings, speed, alt etc that applied at the time.

We know we love em....... but you know it makes sense  ;)

 
What is it about Wives/Kids/Pets and Phonecalls do they have 6th sense .... Something about landing patterns obviously triggers something ....."YESSSS he's landing lets get in his face!!!".

LOL...I know the feeling.  7 out of 10 landings gets interupted by something.  At least the heavies are easier to control when that happens.  The worst ive had was while on a flight from Paris to New York on the Concorde.  Everything was going smooth and I began an almost perfect aproch but 10 miles out my mum decides she needed to tell me something...  Insted of pausing like i should have i just kept flying.  But all it took was one second look away and i was sudenly coming in to low and way to fast.  Luckly I was still high enough to pull up and exicute a go around.  Interuptions are one thing but in an aircraft that sensitive its the last thing needed while landing

[quote]eno - get yourself autosave.dll. Pop it in your modules folder and it quietly saves your flight every few minutes.

Then when your lovely wife decides that she craves your love and companionship just at that crucial moment

Also does this .dll actually save thousands of files on your drive, or just overwriting the previous file each time...?

Try at the link below