andyjohnston Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Put the gear down before landing... Spent way too much time using these sims... FS 5.1, FS-98, FS-2000, FS-2002, FS-2004, FSX, Flight, FSW, P3Dv3, P3Dv4, MSFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mqytn Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Oh yea, the landing gear. :rolleyes: I frequently fly online and sometimes when in group flights when someone is watching my landing, I'll forget to lower the gear and will show off a fantastic belly landing. Doh! I just usually will blame it on lack of sleep :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 My landing checklist: 1. Gear down 2. Aim for ground Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mqytn Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 My checklist......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Made that mistake a few times. The aircraft I use have the gear warning so if it isn't down I'll know. I think you can add that warning via the aircraft.cfg file. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomTweak Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Slow down, CHECK! Lower Flaps, CHECK! Ok, here we go. I feel like I'm forgetting som...OOOOFFFF :confused: That's right, LOWER GEAR! Darn memory of mine...;) :p Have fun all! Pat☺ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Had a thought...then there was the smell of something burning, and sparks, and then a big fire, and then the lights went out! I guess I better not do that again! Sgt, USMC, 10 years proud service, Inactive reserve now :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColR1948 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 It's been done in real life too lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 It's been done in real life too lol. That would be a nasty and embarrassing landing. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mallcott Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 G.U.M.P Gas, Undercarriage (landing gear), Mixture, and Propeller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftldave Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 I just usually will blame it on lack of sleep :) No, it's lack of checklist. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnuss Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 G.U.M.P Gas, Undercarriage (landing gear), Mixture, and Propeller I started with that one, which is simple and applies almost universally, but later morphed it to GUMPFS (Flaps, Safety=seat belts, doors, etc.) Larry N. As Skylab would say: Remember: Aviation is NOT an exact Science! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 A safe landing is one you can walk away from. A good landing in one after which you can use the airplane again. Or so it goes, I believe......... Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 If I had any common sense, I would have a handy checklist at hand. Since I don't, (have a checklist handy) what were you thinking? I usually say to myself...."self, ya got the wheels down fer crying out loud"?:rolleyes::D Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomTweak Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 I was in Osan, Korea, long ago. I got sent back to Iwakuni early, at my request. A desperate, frantic, request. I had shacked up with an Air Force AP. Blonde, well endowed... Anywho, I made a run when she asked me what color wedding dress she should wear. Would have been complicated, as I was already married. I got a lift on the regularly scheduled C-130 to Iwakuni. We pulled up to the hold-short, waiting for a C-12 who was doing bounces, to get out of the way so we could take off. I was sitting up front, by the ladder up to the cockpit. Even had a nice window! RHIP, after all. Suddenly, I hear the pilot yelling "WHEELS!!" over and over. I looked out just in time to see the C-12 settle gracefully down, right on it's belly. We turned around, and I got to spend a lovely night in the Osan Terminal building. Almost as big as an out-house. They wouldn't let me out, or anyone else on that flight, for that matter, since we had already gone through Customs. Thank goodness the C-130 got out no problem the next day. I heard from some of the fellows in our tent in Osan (yes, the AF made us set up a tent city on the far side of the, really nice, golf course) that my AP was really mad, and searching hard for me! Anywho, there's my "real-life" wheels-up landing story. Not to mention a very close call! Now, I am very careful with the gear. I keep hearing that C-130 pilot yelling "WHEELS!!" in my head. Have fun, all! Pat☺ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Had a thought...then there was the smell of something burning, and sparks, and then a big fire, and then the lights went out! I guess I better not do that again! Sgt, USMC, 10 years proud service, Inactive reserve now :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 What no "wheels watch" in the tower?:eek: Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downwind66 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 You are "The Man," Pat. All these women keep surfacing out of your past. WOW! I hope your wife doesn't have access to your computer files. She would have some very interesting reading! :rolleyes: Rick :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomTweak Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 What no "wheels watch" in the tower?:eek: I guess the C-130 pilot was the duty wheels watch for the C-12. Heck, we had to sit there waiting for him anyway :D You are "The Man," Pat. All these women keep surfacing out of your past. WOW! I hope your wife doesn't have access to your computer files. She would have some very interesting reading! Rick Rick, I have a problem with women. For some reason, especially well endowed blonde MP types. I just have to hit on them. It's like a reflex. Don't ask me HOW I succeed! :confused: Although the last one actually hit on me, if you can believe it. She stuffed a piece of raisin toast in my ear as I was eating midrats one night with my friends. I have NO idea why. I wasn't going to tell her no, though :D :D Oh, believe me, my lovely wife knows all about the past peccadillos I've had. She just smiles and says "Yeah, but now he goes to sleep with me! They all loose, HA!" Have fun, all! Pat☺ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Had a thought...then there was the smell of something burning, and sparks, and then a big fire, and then the lights went out! I guess I better not do that again! Sgt, USMC, 10 years proud service, Inactive reserve now :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Put the gear down before landing... OMG, that made me laugh... hard. :D (Thank you, Andy. I needed that.) Prepar3d v4: HP Omen Desktop. Intel Core i7-8700K (6 Core, 3.7GHz), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11GB dedicated GDDR5X), 16GB RAM, 2TB Hard Drive, 1TB SSD, 512GB SSD, Windows 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downwind66 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 I like your wife's outlook on the situation. Mine has a jealous steak and will not accept the fact that I had women in my life prior to her arrival! But, hey, I just turn my already deaf ear to it. I know what memories I have, and, I too can smile about them! %%% To myself, that is!! %%% Pat, one of my employment stops in my life was an Asst Mgr job in a Liquor Store. One night my wife had brought me dinner., and one of my regular customer's walked up to the register, and, I asked him in front of my wife, "In your opinion, do you feel that blondes have more fun? He hesitated for quite some time, looking for an answer that wouldn't be offensive to my wife, and he replied, "Well, I suppose maybe, but I will say, that just make the brunettes and redheads work just that must harder!" Oh you should have seen the face on my wife, If looks could kill! Thanks Pat! Rick :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyjohnston Posted January 31, 2019 Author Share Posted January 31, 2019 OMG, that made me laugh... hard. :D (Thank you, Andy. I needed that.) Glad to know I did my job! Spent way too much time using these sims... FS 5.1, FS-98, FS-2000, FS-2002, FS-2004, FSX, Flight, FSW, P3Dv3, P3Dv4, MSFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amberdog1 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Its just a minor detail... It can happen to anyone (quote from my mom after driving thru 9 garage doors in 1 year) Sit back with a fresh cup-0-Joe Happy :pilot: Flyin AD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jethrom Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Holy heck AD, that's 1.3 per month. You need to reduce your average or not be so unkind to those defenceless garage doors, they will bite back one day, LOL. [ATTACH=CONFIG]207383[/ATTACH] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hossfly68 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 One of my instructors joked that if it takes full power power to taxi in, and it's really really loud.... you probably forgot to lower the gear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 So what do they do when a plane lands on its belly? Use a crane? OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomTweak Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 So what do they do when a plane lands on its belly? Use a crane? Yup! They either use a crane, and pick the plane up entire, then drop the gear and tow it back to the hagar, or use the crane to tip it up so they can get the jacks under it, then drop the gear and tow it back. Obviously, on some planes they need hydraulic power, and there are hyd carts they can tow out to power up the plane to lower the gear, or external electrical power to power the gear. Even the really big planes can be craned up, or at least hoisted to where they can get a jack or five under it. They jack planes up in the hangar to do certain inspection, which require lowering and raising the gear. Annuals, quarterlies, like that. Drop that gear! Pat☺ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Had a thought...then there was the smell of something burning, and sparks, and then a big fire, and then the lights went out! I guess I better not do that again! Sgt, USMC, 10 years proud service, Inactive reserve now :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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