Mini Accident Report: My plane crashed last night

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Re: Mini Accident Report: My plane crashed last ni

Postby Warriordiscdude » Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:53 pm

do even fictional craft count because in the super VTOL camo i have:
Started with a VTOL takeoff at Sarnia Hadfield , started forward movement with turbines at +90 from horizontal when lost power to engine one. afterwards i reduced power to engine 2 to land craft. touch down at approx 0.5 feet per second when craft pitched forward and impacted the ground with the forward 20% of aircraft
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Re: Mini Accident Report: My plane crashed last ni

Postby beefhole » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:03 pm

Well, a plane crash is a plane crash, no matter how ya spin it. So of course fictional aircraft count!  :D
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Re: Mini Accident Report: My plane crashed last ni

Postby Alphajet_Enthusiast » Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:08 am

Nice!

I crashed yesterday 50nm off the USS Kennedy Aircraft Carrier returning from a "rescue mission"  ;). Cloud cover was approximately 7/8, I approximate te visibility some 10 miles, windspeed 30 knots, severe turbulence and all of that in the old huey!

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Re: Mini Accident Report: My plane crashed last ni

Postby TacitBlue » Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:47 pm

I built a box with several aircraft style switches and buttons for use with FS so that I wouldnt have to mess with the keyboard. Shortly after I added several new switches, I was flying in africa (Uganda, if I remember right), and I was coming in on final. as soon as I throttled back, and applied flaps, both engines shut down (Aero Commander 500). I was so surprised, that I neglected to extend the langing gear, and made a gear up landing. What had happened was, I had one of the buttons assigned to "auto Shutdown", appearently, when soldering one of the other switches in, I melted the insulation on the wire going to the "shut down" button. when I flipped the flap switch, it must have moved the wires just enough to make contact, and shut down the engines. It was a REAL accident. Ive since replaced the eroniose wire, and re-assigned the button to something useful.
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Re: Mini Accident Report: My plane crashed last ni

Postby beefhole » Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:04 pm

Had a little whoopsy-daisy in STL a while back... it involved being low on fuel and a go-around, but I don't consider it a true accident by me since in real life I could've requested priority vectoring. Oh well, I now know 8,000 lbs reserve for the 737 is perfect ::)
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Re: Mini Accident Report: My plane crashed last ni

Postby Brute » Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:05 pm

My turn, Hi guys.

I was bringing in an MD90(SGA delta) from KORD to KLGA, after the blizzard I wanted to inspect my hometown from the air, it was a lovely approach, they sent me up the Hudson and what scenery
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Re: Mini Accident Report: My plane crashed last ni

Postby beefhole » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:12 pm

That's been asked about fourty-three times and still no answer  ::)
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Re: Mini Accident Report: My plane crashed last ni

Postby krylite » Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:29 pm

This happened last year before I got Ultimate Traffic. Not sure if it would have made a difference though.

Was coming in for landing in the typical white Cessna 182RG after being cleared for landing.  Was just entering threshold about 30 ft AGL. Then wham! I was a goner.  What the heck happened? Then FS switched to the spot view and showed my plane all busted up with just the burning cockpict left falling down to the runway(the basic Crashback7 effects on) and underneath roaring by was some heavy jetliner. Apparently whamed into me from behind.

Of course the default traffic AI in FS has been known to make a lot of mistakes, but I hadn't seen that kind of accident again. (unintentionally)   ;D
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Re: Mini Accident Report: My plane crashed last ni

Postby TacitBlue » Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:43 pm

the most common accident for me is when I park somewhere and save, and then come back to it, there is a plane parked so close to me that I cannot back out without hitting it. Kinda wierd, its usually a Lear Jet. the other thing is when I get pushed back as far as I need to, then hit Shift+P again and the plane tips back, tail to the ground 'crash'. I figured out that its because I hit the breaks to stop it from rolling, bad idea...

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sorry, accidently left the F out of shift, now I understand the "hog lubrication" thing...
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