Tinkicker Posted March 14 Author Posted March 14 (edited) James swung by the hanger whistling. I guess he is finally sharing a bed with Debs again... Ahh. There you are. There is a a Whizz Air flight to Gothenburg at 10:15. Get your arse on it and bring your aircraft home. Are the technical "difficulties" repaired? I gather so. You gather??? I believe. Whats the matter, you want to live forever? Hell no. 10:15 then. You have been lurking around this hanger long enough. You have a hotel reservation in Lille, where you will stay overnight and resume the flight on Saturday. So here I am in a sunny but cold Gothenburg getting the Comanche ready to fly. Climbing out over a sunny but cold Gothenburg. It did not last, by the time I arrived over copenhagen, the very regular rain showers were torrential. I could not go over the top because even at 1500ft, the air temp was hovering around zero and I experienced clear air icing at 2500ft. You could hardly hear the engine over the roar of the rain and hail. # The technical difficulties were not in fact ironed out as I found out near Arnhem. I suddenly found myself out of the cockpit and sat astride the fuselage, facing rearwards like some sort of rodeo clown. James, you utter, utter winker. Route so far. sim is too unstable after my little "upset" to attempt any more screenshots.. Don't want to suddenly materialise in the prop... Edited March 14 by Tinkicker 1 Quote
Simon Davey Posted March 14 Posted March 14 So, sitting astride the fuselage facing the tail is that sim fault? It's this a reincarnation of the SIM, or a fresh install? Quote
Tinkicker Posted March 14 Author Posted March 14 The sim is major broken. I will post a pic of my landing at Lille that destroyed my aircraft.... This is how bad it is since the last "fix". This is a taxiway, the spikes suddenly appeared and destroyed my aircraft..... Microsoft... [ Quote
Tinkicker Posted March 15 Author Posted March 15 (edited) Yup. After a little research, it seems the fix is to dive into the settings and turn "displacement mapping" off. It is supposedly to allow arcraft wheels to leave ruts and tyre tracks in grass and dirt but is severely broken. It is giving the developers of add on third party scenery and airports conniptions... At least I have a fix now, albeit by turning off a much hyped, publicised "feature" of the sim Edited March 15 by Tinkicker 1 Quote
Tinkicker Posted March 16 Author Posted March 16 (edited) Well I wrote off another comanche on a flight from hell. Brought the comanche back to leeds yesterday and this morning disembarked on a flight to Aberdeen. Returned this afternoon. After an uneventful flight, I was heading south over the Dales,with about 25 miles to Leeds. The cloud lowered and I suffered moderate icing over moorland tops and had to descend to just a couple of hundred feet above the moorland to get into warmer air. The ice slowly melted. Phew. Then the engine cut out suddenly.... A glance at the gauges showed plenty fuel, but no fuel pressure. I switched to the tip tanks, no change. I switched on the electric fuel booster pump.. The engine gradually picked up again. By this time I was getting ready to put it down on the moor, barely 20ft of air between aircraft belly and the ground. Obviously the engine driven fuel pump had failed. Disaster averted. Flew into the pattern at Leeds, lowered the gear handle and nothing.. Gear was not moving. Moved out of the pattern and put it on autopilot to figure out what was wrong. Checked my control bindings, all ok and working, so it was not a sim glitch. Tried to lower the gear by way of the mouse cursor operating the switch. The switch moved from "up" to "off" or neutral position, but would not stay in the down position. Great. Never mind, I still have the manual gear extension handle.... It would not work, jammed solid. Something had failed big time in the landing gear. So a wheels up landing on the runway at Leeds. Cut fuel, engine mixture and battery power over the threshold. and held her off as long as I could. Bent prop, broken crank and other mechanical mayhem ensued. What a hellish flight. Edit. Just about to shut down the PC and got a notification that windows wants to update and restart the PC. I bet that feckin update was the cause.. it was probably trying to open a window to "notify" me that it needs to update and restart. Edited March 16 by Tinkicker 1 Quote
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