Okay, now I know this has been asked before, but to be honest, I didn't pay attention because I thought "Nah, they didn't put it into FS9."

But something very odd just happened to me while recreating the infamous Flight 19.

For those of you who don't know, Flight 19 was a training flight of five US Navy TBM Avengers that disappeared without a trace in December of 1945 somewhere near Florida.

As in real life, I departed NAS Ft. Lauderdale (now KFLL) on a heading of 091.  I expected to stumble across Chicken and Hen Shoals almost 60 miles off shore.

HOWEVER....about 20 minutes out, I lost all roll of the aircraft.  I couldn't turn left or right.  Fortunately, I was able to use my rudder trim wheel to at least yaw may way to this tiny a$$ dirt patch in the middle of the ocean.  (I'm still there, so if any of you have a Dauphin in the hangar, I could use a ride home.)

I checked my realism and failure settings  numerous times (because I can't believe this could really happen in FS), and everything checks out.

Has anyone else encountered strange occurances in this region?

Unfortunately, it is December of 1945, and I do not have this machine of which you speak. 

I did however take a piece of my uniform shirt and scribble on it with my own blood.  I then stuffed it in my now empty canteen and tossed it into the sea in the hopes that someone would stumble across it.

Barely.

Hey, you wouldn't happen to have a bottle large enough to float me a new prop, would you?

After that landing, that works for me.

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Nope.  I would have, except that when trying to figure out what had happened to my ailerons, I got pi$$ed off and threw the darned thing right out the open canopy.  (I'd opened it, fearing I'd be swimming.)

I recently watched a documentary on The Discovery Channel.  Although I'd heard about and seen stuff about this flight before, this one was uber-interesting, and that's what prompted me to recreate the flight.

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The methane gas thingy was to do with sinking ships, (aeriated water reduces the density of water, therefore ships sink), wrong place at the wrong time... ...!

The problem with the missing aeroplanes was to do with the lead pilot miss-reading the identity of islands beneath them* when referring them to his map, and therefore ignoring his accurate compass readings, flying in the wrong direction, running out of fuel, and crashing into the sea, together with the rest of the formation.
(The submerged planes were subsiquently found by divers far out at sea).

...nothing magic... ...!

Paul....!

*He observed the wrong island, facing in the wrong direction, and therefore assumed his compass was reading incorrectly...!

Interesting. If what Scott says is true maybe the guys at M$ added a little Easter Egg.

From all the accounts I've read & seen on this Flight 19 incident it was quite likely a case of the leader getting lost over the ocean. His students would have been relying on him. Many of these "Bermuda Triangle" theories state that the pilots were all experienced when it was in fact a training flight.

From what I can make out this "Triangle" is not defined on any official chart & has been conveniently enlarged over the years to include any unexplained mishap in the general area of the Atlantic Ocean. I don't believe any of this nonsense myself.

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The US Coast Guard might not support these figures.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq8-1.htm

A lot of these so-called documentaries are not too accurate. They simply dramatise the same old sensationalist nonsense aimed at people who like to believe in this sort of thing. The old "Marie Celeste" ghost ship myth is often trundled out by these people when I believe the real incident it was based on took place near the coast of Spain.

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The original "Triangle" is within US jurisdiction.
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The area has been conveniently extended every time there was "mysterious" incident over many years to fit the theory. LOL

The Methane was also mentioned in the downing of many aircraft.  The DSC documentary did several experiments.  One where they introduced a methane cloud into a 737 simulator, another to see if a WWII radial engine would cause a mid-air explosion, and a third where they introduced methane directly into the engine.  It took less than 1% methane saturation to kill the engine.  Very cool stuff.

Hmm methane, well if you climb above 13000 ft or so in an unpressurised enviroment then you do in fact get uncontrollable flatulence. Moral of the story, fly with the canopy open Oh and don't have beans before flying anywhere near Bermuda

Mark

Ps. Will the world isn't boring, just most of the people in it

So why is the "methane" thing just taken for granted anyway, WHAT methane? As for a methane "cloud",  I seriously doubt it. I live in an area where methane is produced in vast quantities naturally by way of a marine plant, besides not crashing ships and planes, it stinks to high heaven, the concentrations are so high!

I never smelled that while sailing in the Bermuda triangle.

A simple pressure gradient in the atmosphere would have more of an effect. (The isobars you see on the weather map are sometimes pretty well defined in nature)

Why would gaseous methane, which is essentially an atomised fuel, kill an aircraft engine, at 1% it certainly wouldn't be too rich. (Didn't they inject for WEP? !)

Flight 19 was doomed because a grave mistake was made by the flight leader, I often thought of the poor souls in the following planes, absolutely helpless and no doubt terror stricken. and how I might of reacted to the judgement displayed by the lead. (I would no doubt have been court marshalled for turning tail for Florida! Better to land on the beach than crash into the sea!)

I grew up in Florida, lived in Key Largo and spent a lot of time in that region on boats. A LOT of mysterious stuff goes on there! It's people who are involved and people who are responsible for the "mysteries". I was involved in quite a few myself.  

One night my Dad got us lost sailing to the Bahamas. I just told him I was going to turn left 90 degrees every hour and keep the boat in roughly the same position until morning so we didn't lose position too badly, he went to sleep while I steered by compass for 6 hours.

We dead reckoned our position and travelled an hour by daylight to find our destination where it should be. The compass worked for us. (I was 14 years old and I now have 35,000 sea miles without incident.)

I believe there are local magnetic anomalies in certain areas there, but those are well charted.

It needs to be mentioned that the area is used extensively by novice sailors and aviators who certainly contribute to the Bermuda Triangle Effect. It is also inhabited by "economically challenged" (both rich and poor!) people who might also contribute to some of the mystique by way of their actions on the high seas.

Consider as well the violent thunderstorms of the region, compunding an already volatile recipe.

To us, the Bermuda triangle was something we talked about at campfires and scared tourists with!  

All this so far STILL doesn't explain Hyperion's dilemma, which is, to me, the biggest mystery of them all!

S P O O K Y   8)

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Thanks Congo. Good to get the local point of view which confirms what I've suspected all along. There's nobody easier to fool with this sort of thing than academics & experts. Most of them can't even figure out a simple conjuring trick. The next thing you know they're making "documentaries" about their theories. I bet the locals are laughing their heads off. LOL

The reason you don't smell the methane is because it dissolves into the water.  Methane will dissolve into water and stay in there and some may leak out from the surface due to the equilibrium that needs to be balanced, but it is minimal so you can't smell it.  Methane dissolved in water will make it "lighter" and cause ships to lack as much bouyancy and the risk of sinking is greater.  Assuming it is not released in massive amounts, then it would reach the surface before dissolving.

'Twas enough to nearly bring down an oil platform.