Just when you think you've seen it all..

[Brett_Henderson]

(Psssst, hey Fozzer,, this was in your back yard)

I took off from KSFO (San Fran), took the obligatory, scenic loop around the bay and headed south down the coast. (C182RG)

At 4000 msl very near Half Moon Bay, I heard a crash noise. Kinda like when you land too hard or without the gear down.

Anyway,,  the engine quit and wouldn't restart. I had plenty of altitude so KHAF was no prob (in fact I  put the gear down early and even needed a notch of flaps)

After landing, I checked all the realism and system-failure settings,,,  NOTHING !

Is it possible,, that in one of the most scenic/effect rich parts of the world (FS2002 world), that I hit a bird  :o

Has anyone else experienced this ?

I guess I kinda wanna believe that the old Sim can still have a surprise up it's sleave  ;)

[BFMF]

interesting, never had that happen before

[ozzy72]

I don't think it has any bird strike options. Are you sure you haven't added a random failure engine at sometime, and its just kicked in? I had a Spit quit on me as I'd forgotten that I'd added one about 6 months earlier!

Ozzy

[BFMF]

I had a Spit quit on me as I'd forgotten that I'd added one about 6 months earlier!

It's bound to happen sooner or later

[ozzy72]

Thanks Andrew!
I know who my friends are!!!!

Ozzy

[BFMF]

not sure if i'm in that group or not

[Brett_Henderson]

I've reinstalled the SIM since I last "played" with system failures,,anyway, I checked that when I landed,,

Oh well,, maybe it was a "code-loop-fluke"

I was hoping it was a bird...

[RIC_BARKER]

I've had this happen before too, many times wile doing VFR. I put it down to a bug in FS that makes the sim think the land is higher than it is.

I presume this, because as I'm on approach (with gear down) I've clouted an invisible hill and left tire marks!

Ric B.

[Brett_Henderson]

That's intriguing enough to make me go back an criss-cross that are  (this time with gear down) and see if I can leave a skid-mark in mid-air    :o

(right over Half Moon Bay @ 4,000 msl),, just in case anyone else wnats to replicate  it..

[FSTipster]

Rick, Brett - Do either of you have terrain mesh installed?

It's quite posiible that duff levation points do exist on the default installation of course, but I was wondering if a terrain mesh installation had either failed to work properly or was conflicting with the default scenery perhaps.

[RIC_BARKER]

No, I use the default terrain meash for that area - sorry I should have said that in my post, but I was on my way to the pub  ;D so I was in a bit of a rush!

Ric B.

[Brett_Henderson]

Default scenery here  

(except a few Islands in Michigan, I added myself)


Have a pint for me Ric  ;)

[RIC_BARKER]

Cheers Brett!!

[fisharno]

Very interesting.
KSFO is my Naval aviation home base. I'll do carrier ops on the Connie from there. Mostly with the T-45 or the E-2C Hawkeye. But, I've never heard or seen anything like that happening.

S'gotta be a bug!

[ftimm]

Regarding shut-down.
I've had it happen to me too. Just the other day I was on climb-out and lost power.(don't remember where I was though). There have been occasions where I would be at cruise and the the engine would just quit. each time I would go back inthe settings menu, double - check to see if I inadvertantly changed something. Nichts, Nada, zilch. One time it was so bad I gave up and re-installed FS.

I've just written if off as some kind of gremlin/bug.