Simviation Forum - Dead Stick Landing

Jun 13^th, 2003 at 2:23am

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Flying one of Mike Stones F27s out of Norwich UK R/W 27, after heading East, I lost both engines over the coast at 5000' and couldn't re-light. This was a heart in mouth experience, I tried everything to stay aloft and reverse course to Norwich. I waited till 1 mile from touch down before lowering gear and full flaps over the threshold. The F27 is a great model, but there's something wrong with the ctrl/F2 command for the prop RPM that seems to play havoc with the autopilot and the elevator trim. Ho-hum, good practise anyway. Anyone know if adrenaline is brown?

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Reply #1 - Jun 13^th, 2003 at 3:48am

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A friend dropped over during a flight and sat and watched as I made an approach,lost an engine,recovered and landed. He looked at me and said,
"You're sweating! This isn't a game is it?"
I asked him if he would like to try,to which he replied,
"No way! I'll kill myself!!" Grin

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Reply #2 - Jun 13^th, 2003 at 11:09am

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I have had plenty of dead stick landings to add to my credit. I don't try to make it a habit in my real life flights, but FS works great for simulated engine and other mechanical failures.

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Reply #3 - Jun 13^th, 2003 at 3:31pm

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I've got my fair shrae as well, if I get bored I'll kill one.
Anyone know of a program thet will throw in malfunctions at random rather than tell ing the sim when you wan an engine to "fail"?

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Reply #4 - Jun 13^th, 2003 at 6:36pm

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I've got my fair shrae as well, if I get bored I'll kill one.
Anyone know of a program thet will throw in malfunctions at random rather than tell ing the sim when you wan an engine to "fail"?

I forget the name of it but there's a program that does that. It takes it's data from the way you fly the plane. For example, if you do a lot of hard landings then the gear will have a greater chance of failing or if you always abuse the engines then those are more likely to fail. It sounds good and I've been meaning to try it out the next time I come across it. Maybe someone else will know the name and where to download it.

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Reply #5 - Jun 13^th, 2003 at 8:18pm

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Try pulling a real dead stick. I fly R/C and dead stick landings is a part of the wings test. Most students just get their engine set to idle but my instucter shut the thing right down. Shocked

Thought I was going to faint when it was over. Grin

I do dead sticks all the time in FS2002 just remember to hold on to the aircraft. Don't put flaps down or spoilers up. Remember control gets mushy as the plane slows down so you'll need to be extra vigilant to make sure you don't stall. Bring her down fast but gently and don't over flare or you'll stall.
Practice in a plane with high lift wings first. A 172 or a Tiger Moth.

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Reply #6 - Jun 13^th, 2003 at 8:52pm

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When I learned R/C, every landing was "dead stick"....I was flying a glider with a small engine which would only run 2:30 before I had to think about coming down...after learning the controls, I went to pure glider with no power and had to winch launch.....every landing was where I wanted it to be.....on the ground....all you need to do is visually pick up on the sink rate of the plane and compare the height to the linear distance you think it will fly.....make your turns to get you to the runway.........simple......

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Reply #7 - Jun 14^th, 2003 at 2:13am

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I think the only serious problem i've ever had in FS2002 was when a fuel selector gauge wasn't working right and wasn't pulling fuel from the correct fuel tank. I was flying multiplayer online at the time and was able to make an emergency landing, on a river beach in the bush, way up in Alaska

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Reply #8 - Jun 14^th, 2003 at 2:24am

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I think the only serious problem i've ever had in FS2002 was when a fuel selector gauge wasn't working right and wasn't pulling fuel from the correct fuel tank. I was flying multiplayer online at the time and was able to make an emergency landing, on a river beach in the bush, way up in Alaska

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Reply #9 - Jun 14^th, 2003 at 2:34am

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Better choice than swimming Andrew.....heros are dead and good pilots live to tell what happened ....

I sure was sweating...lol

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Reply #10 - Jun 14^th, 2003 at 4:51am

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Not sure what happened but I made a mess of the mixture on an Aviat float,couldn't get a restart and dead sticked into a convenient reach between two islands. Perfect setup and TD. Fired it back up and flew to where I was going and promptly mucked up a powered landing. Roll Eyes

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Reply #11 - Jun 14^th, 2003 at 2:55pm

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Not sure what happened but I made a mess of the mixture on an Aviat float,couldn't get a restart and dead sticked into a convenient reach between two islands. Perfect setup and TD. Fired it back up and flew to where I was going and promptly mucked up a powered landing. Roll Eyes

And to add a little bit of fun...how many witnesses got to see that " Perfect setup and TD "........ Roll Eyes

I hate when that happens......! 8)

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Reply #12 - Jun 14^th, 2003 at 3:35pm

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my pucara ran out of fuel on my round the US trip and i had to deadstick it into a local airfield in ohio, almost lost it, night time and its difficult to see the screen during the day due to the sun so it was a real heartstopper when i thought i had missed it completely, but all ended well, and i could continue on my merry way after a fuel stop,

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