Hi all!

I was recently flying an approach to SBRJ, runway 20L, using the PMDG 737-800. All went well and I think that to the extent that this can be said in a flight simulation, I had a perfect approach set - exactly at the REF speed, all configured to land, on the glideslope, and everything. When, all of a sudden, when the plane called "50", and I was just about to cross the runway threshold, FSX displayed the "CRASH" message in its top green notification bar, as if I had slammed the plane onto the ground. And I hadn't. I chose the external view to see whether I did hit some obstacle but it was a negative. And, after some seconds seeing the plane paused 50 feet above the ground, the image suddenly changed to show my plane half-buried at the runway start - just like that. And this of course ended a nice flight I was having with a big WHAT THE....!!???!!

I know this is software and software can sometimes glitch. My question is though, have any of you experienced this, maybe in a regular basis? Is this a known FSX issue that only I am not aware of yet?  BTW, this was the first time it happened to me with FSX.

Thanks!!!!

Thanks, Carlo. I was using the default SBRJ scenery. Guess I'll try to turn off collision detection and see how that affects the "immersion" factor of the simulator. If not too much, I may keep it on.

Thanks!!!

It's the same story with KSFO from Flightbeam. As soon as you get within a few feet off the ground, CRASH. I've just set my crashes to "ignore" now, since the only times when I crash seem to be due to glitches like these.