T-K's Andean (mis)Adventures

[Tako_Kichi]

A bit of everything in that flight! Started out in clouds which meant dodging the lumps on the climb-out. The clouds cleared out about 1/3 into the leg to leave nice clear skies but then I ran into turbulence and wind-shear which I have not seen at all so far on this entire trip. It got quite bumpy at times and I was keeping a very close eye on the altimeter to make sure I didn't bust the cap. At the end I had a real hard time trying to spot a thin brown line in a brown landscape and was over the airport before I spotted it. Luckily I was only about 2,500 ft AGL so it was a simple case of over-fly and then join the DW leg on a RH circuit.

Arrived at SPNP

Fuel Used: 1552.0 lbs
Flight Time: 00:52:39
Maintenance Points: 0

[Tako_Kichi]

Leg 19

Taking off SPNP-SLLP

Takeoff Weight: 58,208 lbs
Fuel: 2,168 lbs
Payload: 12,500 lbs

[Tako_Kichi]

Just had a total computer lock-up about 3 minutes into the flight so I am going to re-start this leg later.

[Great Ozzie]

That was a lesson I learned the hard way during my first RTWR. :angryfir:

Tako amazing to hear that story as I had an almost identical experience (I think my first RTRW) but in the FSX Lear 45.

Final... Nice approach, flair, spoilers, brakes... and I am not slowing down! Like 110kts straight down the runway. Never occurred to me to retract spoilers and attempt to take-off since I wasn't getting stopped. Crash right into the localizer antenna.

Apparently the Autothrottle was still engaged... I thought I had disengaged both and iirc both "AP" and "SPD" lights were out. Tried to repro (dis-engaging both but SPD still enabled despite the light out) just a while ago but unable.

Live and learn...

[Tako_Kichi]

After some unforeseen RL delays I can now attempt to continue this event.

Leg 19

Taking off SPNP-SLLP

Takeoff Weight: 58,195 lbs
Fuel: 2,155 lbs
Payload: 12,500 lbs

[Tako_Kichi]

Arrived at SLLP

Fuel Used: 966.0 lbs
Flight Time: 00:32:30
Maintenance Points: 0

[Tako_Kichi]

Leg 20

Taking off SLLP-SLCB

Takeoff Weight: 58,396 lbs
Fuel: 2,357 lbs
Payload: 12,500 lbs

[Tako_Kichi]

Arrived at SLCB

Fuel Used: 1022.0 lb
Flight Time: 00:37:57
Maintenance Points: 0

[Tako_Kichi]

Leg 21

Taking off SLCB-SLSU

Takeoff Weight: 57,912 lbs
Fuel: 1,872 lbs
Payload: 12,500 lbs

[Tako_Kichi]

Arrived at SLSU

Fuel Used: 978.0 lbs
Flight Time: 00:32:41
Maintenance Points: 0

[Tako_Kichi]

Leg 22

Taking off SLSU-SLPO

Takeoff Weight: 56,885 lbs
Fuel: 846 lbs
Payload: 12,500 lbs

[Tako_Kichi]

Arrived at SLPO

Fuel Used: 392.0 lbs
Flight Time: 00:13:23
Maintenance Points: 0

[Tako_Kichi]

Leg 23

Taking off SLPO-SCKP

Takeoff Weight: 59,583 lbs
Fuel: 3,543 lbs
Payload: 12,500 lbs

[Tako_Kichi]

Well that was an interesting landing! I had nothing to navigate with apart from a compass and stop watch and as I crossed the last ridge I was frantically looking around for the airport when suddenly I spotted the VASI lights off in the distance to my 3 o'clock position. It was a mad scramble to get the speed down and everything out as I dived for the strip. I am just thankful that it was another loooong runway as I came in hot and was 1/3 of the way down it before I was slow enough to touch down. Phew!

Arrived at SCKP

Fuel Used: 1610.0 lbs
Flight Time: 00:50:05
Maintenance Points: 0

[Tako_Kichi]

Leg 24

Taking off SCKP-SCDA

Takeoff Weight: 57,811 lbs
Fuel: 1,771 lbs
Payload: 12,500 lbs

[Tako_Kichi]

Arrived at SCDA

Fuel Used: 647.0 lbs
Flight Time: 00:29:50
Maintenance Points: 0

[Tako_Kichi]

Leg 25

Taking off SCDA-SCCF

Takeoff Weight: 58,698 lbs
Fuel: 2,658 lbs
Payload: 12,500 lbs

[Tako_Kichi]

ARRRGHHHH!!! Just got to TOC and wasn't paying full attention to the sim when I heard the overspeed alarm going off. I got about 5 seconds of OS before it went POOF! :isadizzy:

So much for flight sim's 60 seconds of accumulated OS before you crash! :angryfir:

Back to SCDA.

[Moses03]

Sorry to hear that Larry. Wonder why it was so anxious to trip you up?

[Tako_Kichi]

No idea. I pulled back on the throttle and kicked out the AP so that I could ease back on the stick to climb and lose speed and that's as far as I got. I don't think it was an over-stress crash (at least it didn't say so) so can only assume it was an overspeed issue. The Duenna didn't give any clues either.

[MM]

Gosh, Larry. FSX doesn't seem quite as friendly as FS9 in giving us a warning. Ouch.

How much time in overspeed did the Duenna record? (More generally, does FSX give the same amount of overspeed as FS9? Or do we know this?)

[Tako_Kichi]

Gosh, Larry. FSX doesn't seem quite as friendly as FS9 in giving us a warning. Ouch.

How much time in overspeed did the Duenna record?

5.1 seconds

(More generally, does FSX give the same amount of overspeed as FS9? Or do we know this?)

It's usually 60 seconds of accumulated time like FS9. During pre-event testing I did notice that Jen's DC-4 is particularly sensitive to overspeed blow ups though and I have been very careful up to this point to stay below the yellow band on the ASI. I just got distracted this time and forget to throttle back at the TOC point as it will overspeed in level flight below about 12,000 ft if you are at max. throttle.

[salt_air]

An aggravation to be sure Larry ... sorry Dude.


I can't recall the "how-to" portion of the project, but Mike (n3306tx) and myself took the overspeed alarm out of one of the default Boeing(s) or maybe the Lear and put it in some of the race planes that had none at all.

Excuse the pathetic memory, but you get the idea ... wasn't all that hard to do once we found what we were looking for .... I think it was just a little copy and paste work.


Sure did work well on at least a couple of instances.

[Tako_Kichi]

I can't recall the "how-to" portion of the project, but Mike (n3306tx) and myself took the overspeed alarm out of one of the default Boeing(s) or maybe the Lear and put it in some of the race planes that had none at all.

Excuse the pathetic memory, but you get the idea ... wasn't all that hard to do once we found what we were looking for .... I think it was just a little copy and paste work.


Sure did work well on at least a couple of instances.

I did put an overspeed alarm on it that I use on my RTWR aircraft in FS9 because I found out it had 'issues' during pre-event testing. I can't remember where it came from but this one has a bell/horn and a voice shouting 'Retard!' That's what alerted me to the problem in the first place but I still only got 5.1 seconds before she blew up.

Unfortunately it only works in the VC/panel view so if you are in external view you are stuffed!