Online:
was to, once, mistake take off runway. Such an embarrassment with the controller.
happens to me every single time.
they say runway 24,i takeoff at runway 30.XD
Oh no.
Didn't happen like that. It was on a Pacific Island... don't remember which one, but was not Hawaii. I THINK it was in the French Polynesia... maybe... been a while. I took off with my trusty L-1649A (
as I do not do kerosene burners, if I can help it) on a long haul, but there was control. The airport had ONE runway, he gave the... 24... I think... and I managed to bring the plane on the 6.
Truth to be told, at the time I was (
and still am) quite green in online flights, and had expected the airport to be unmanned. Add to this that the controller would not hear reasons and insisted I had to fly a RNAV SID, while I was alone in a 2000nm radius, in a propliner, simulating a back-in-the-days flight, and you have a recipe for a disaster.
In the end he allowed me take off from there, since wind was weak, and released me to UNICOM as soon I was airborne... talk about consistency...
other things include atc letting a little cessna on the runway while me gliding in a 737.
Are you talking default ATC? I left it behind alone and forgot quite a lot of time ago. :-?
For the reason you exposed and a lot more.
online a little near accident:i landed and i was taxiing but the taxiway was far away,in the meantime a tanker came on the runway,didnt see me and then i was like:is it coming closer and then it was like 20 ft from me and so i decided to use a little afterburner.
IRL, the plane in the front wising up to the SNAFU would have to do a balked landing. FAST. The ones behind could only hit the reversers and brakes full blast and not attempt anything else, not to make a FUBAR Tenerife style. Both crews, afterwards, would have to unite and accurately search the idiot(s) in the tower to give them the gratitude they deserved, of course. With the help of several knobby clubs, possibly.
Anyway, I'm quite surprised a staffed online ATC fell in this kind of snag. :-?
also a few before runway landings but that was mainly due to altitude,but its a grass runway so no difference ...
and a few 'bush' landings if you get what i mean.
Been there, done that, got several T-shirts.
and a few carrier landings that result in me trapping but going too fast so i am like'DONT FALL OFF!!!'
Eh, one of the reasons I've stopped attempting carrier landings was because I always came too low... with unsightly disasters following suit.
but my dad is terrible at fs.
on takeoff and landing he nearly ALWAYS hits a tree.
even if there is only one nearby,he will probably hit it.
A real Tree-hugger.
I've weaned out that tendency in myself in ancient versions of FS, when trees were only in your mind, but "bush landings", as you call them, happen to me still, from time to time, when against all common sense I try to push the envelope, trying to land WHERE I shouldn't, WHEN I shouldn't, IN THE WAY I shouldn't. The sole fact we're flying a simulator is the only reason we're still here, talking about it. ALL of us.
There is no such a thing as overkill. Only unworthy targets.