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Just when you think you've seen it all.. (Read 840 times)
Mar 18th, 2003 at 9:03pm

Brett_Henderson   Ex Member
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(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  Shocked

Has anyone else experienced this ?

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

 
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Reply #1 - Mar 18th, 2003 at 10:29pm

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interesting, never had that happen before
 
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Reply #2 - Mar 19th, 2003 at 2:39am

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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!

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Reply #3 - Mar 19th, 2003 at 2:47am

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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 Grin
 
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Reply #4 - Mar 19th, 2003 at 3:33am

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Thanks Andrew!
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Reply #5 - Mar 19th, 2003 at 3:38am

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not sure if i'm in that group or not Roll Eyes Wink
 
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Reply #6 - Mar 19th, 2003 at 11:43am

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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" <sigh>

I was hoping it was a bird...
 
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Reply #7 - Mar 19th, 2003 at 1:51pm

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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.
 
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Reply #8 - Mar 19th, 2003 at 2:19pm

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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    Shocked

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

 
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Reply #9 - Mar 19th, 2003 at 2:47pm

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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.
 
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Reply #10 - Mar 19th, 2003 at 4:08pm

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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  Grin so I was in a bit of a rush!

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Reply #11 - Mar 19th, 2003 at 10:08pm

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Default scenery here 

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


Have a pint for me Ric  Wink
 
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Reply #12 - Mar 20th, 2003 at 10:34am

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Cheers Brett!! Grin
 
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Reply #13 - Mar 20th, 2003 at 11:40am

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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!
 
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Reply #14 - Mar 21st, 2003 at 8:08am

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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.[color=Red][/color]
 
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