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NWA Flight 74 Featuring Thomas Ruth's great A333!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:27 am
by FlyingPerson
Only just a FEW problems.. more on that later.

Northwest Flight 74 - Operated by: Airbus Industrie 330-300 - Gate: 74 (I had to XD) - Origin: JFK Destination: MSP

Very wet at JFK today.. the tow truck couldn't help me so I had to use the two P&W4000s to reverse me out.. noisy start of the day.

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Powerful takeoff after being the third in line for takeoff after an United B733 and a JetBlue E190.

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Cruising comfortably at 32,000 feet. I decided to "sit" in the jumpseat.

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Just 45 minutes later, all hell broke loose. I heard the engines quit on me, looked at the engine gauges falling (before they went black) and thought "this is it for this flight.."

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Gliding into the skies. Looking nicer a few miles longer.

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After gliding for quite a while, I emergency landed at KBFD (I think that's what it was called). The speedbrakes and the emergency brakes stopped the aircraft with violent shaking and making quite a few tires blow.

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My next flight will be non-failured.. I feel like doing a 757 flight :P Stay tuned!

Re: NWA Flight 74 Featuring Thomas Ruth's great A333!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:48 am
by ShaneG_old
Excellent shots.

That #2 is great! :o

Very nice Vc in this bird.

Re: NWA Flight 74 Featuring Thomas Ruth's great A333!

PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:19 am
by Daube
You managed to glide down to a nearby airport ? Great move !
Strange thing in your failure screenshot is that the airspeed is at 0.... Normally this gauge doesn't need any power to work, isn't it ? I wonder if you were not victim of the icing ?

Re: NWA Flight 74 Featuring Thomas Ruth's great A333!

PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:49 am
by FlyingPerson
Daube, it's a faulty gauge. It never works. This is very much like the default A321 VC (only less detail). I think it works in the default A321, but I have no idea why it doesen't work in this one. :/

Thanks to both of you for the comments! :D

(You can see it in #3 too.. I was flying at Mach 0.76 but it still showed 0 :/)

Re: NWA Flight 74 Featuring Thomas Ruth's great A333!

PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:36 pm
by Brando14100
Wow, great shots. The angles are really cool.

8-)