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Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:35 am
by Clipper
Simple....land any commercial jet airliner at SVAS, Armando Schwarck in Venezuela....good luck and if you're up to the challenge, post your pics here!

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:51 am
by ThatOnePerson
I think ill give it a shot,pics later :)

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:55 am
by Stratosaurus
This is easy. Try the same in SESM, Rio Amazonas, Ecuador.

Regards from Spain.

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:46 am
by chomp_rock
I'll give it a shot, looks like it shouldn't be hard in my jet airliner of choice for this sort of thing: the Boeing 757.

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:59 am
by Ecko
Damn clip, this was a pretty tough one! At first I thought it looked pretty easy, but that wasnt the case.

I started off in something small, an Airbus A319, bad choice. Way too hard to slow down.. the landing speed on that thing (with 15% fuel), is like 100 knots, so I constanly overshot the runway. Then I tried the an MD-11, better choice for sure, though it still wasnt easy!!

Small Airbus A319, bad choice!
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Large Mcdonnell Douglas MD-11, better choice! ;D My approach on the edge of the "valley".
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I guess you could call this the final.. :p
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I didnt actually get a shot of the 'go around', but here I'm on my second approach.
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And the touchdown.. VERY high nose to get the landing speed down, and way off centerline, but the touchdown itself, was actually not bad at all.
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At this point I had just cut off the engines, as the effect of the reverse thrust was down to a minimum. I had also gotten the nose wheel down.. Now time for braking!!
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I actually made it, with runway to spare, about 4 feet..  ;D

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:10 am
by Omag 2.0
Sweet landing!

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:10 am
by Omag 2.0
[quote]HERES MY ATTEMPT.

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:25 am
by The_Joker_Flyer
I'm on it right now....

dont expect any pics!!!  ::)

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:51 am
by chomp_rock
My 757 was obviously one-upped so I decided to use my old friend: the Boeing 747 (747-436, G-BNLI to be exact).

Seeing as there is a 500kb limit on these threads, I'll just link to my shots ::)

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/crsvas1.jpg
Taking off (20% fuel and no passengers of course)

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/crsvas2.jpg
Starting my approach

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/crsvas3.jpg
Side-slipping and stalling to decrease speed

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/crsvas4.jpg
Airspeed reduction successful ;D, had to apply thrust to arrest the stall :o

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/crsvas5.jpg
Touchdown! And hard too!

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/crsvas6.jpg
Just about... stopped...

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:00 am
by Theis
Yawn! :-/

You call THAT a challenge??

now THIS is a landing challenge!!

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Or this one!!
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Cheers Theis ;D

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:05 am
by chomp_rock
Where is that one Theis? My 600HP C172 might do the trick ;D

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:14 am
by Clipper
I must have forgotten what a bunch of yahoos you simpilots are. Who says "V" doesn't have the worlds greatest pilots!! Ecko, that was impressive!! Doctor Theis if it's no sweat for you show me the money..take a jumbo up. And that strip you're showing is beyond belief. Choppers only! Omag, nice try, you came soo close. I wonder if Ozzy might show up. Chomp that 747 stuff is just plain rude! Nice try.....Joker, no pics, no shtik!

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:25 am
by Rifleman
In all fairness, the toughest one I've done so far, is a blind landing in the hangar deck of the carrier off the coast of San Deigo (done in FS 2002), with a Tiger Moth (it has no brakes)
The reason it's blind is because you can't see where you need to touch down until you pass through the rear of the carrier itself,................you really need to hit the very beginning of the actual floor and be off the throttle 'cause if you don't, with no brakes, its almost certain that you will not stop in time before you fall out the bow, to the sea .........it took me many, many tries.......a good second choice to land in that one was the Beech 1900........also very hard.

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 2:22 pm
by chomp_rock
Chomp that 747 stuff is just plain rude! Nice try.....Joker, no pics, no shtik!


Click the links fool! I posted 6 screens but linked them because of the 500kb per thread rule.

Re: Clippers' Ultimate Landing Challenge

PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:00 pm
by Sytse
HE WASN'T TALKING ABOUT YOU FOOL!