Blackbird From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (6 years 3 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 12480 times:
I btw own FS9 (old I know, but I prefer 9 running properly than 10 running slow as crap), I have a throttle/joystick and pedals to make it more realistic.
What's the craziest thing you've ever done in FS... regardless of what version you've had?
I think the craziest one I ever did was fly over Orange County (CA) at 1000 feet and Mach 1.2 in an F-104... (there are such strict noise-regulations in SNA) although I've done others. Flying into a crowded traffic pattern in a CV-880 on the barber pole, by the time I was making the turn onto final I was at 250 kts, and managed to make a normal Flaps 50-landing.*
*(From what I've been told on the tech/ops forum: 373 - 393 kts is the actual plane's barber pole, but the model/dynamics I had for some reason allowed me to go up to 400 kts... I've contacted the person who designed it and he's on it-- yes I plan to do the same high-speed approach again, but this time it would be more realistic.)
LAXspotter From India, joined Jan 2007, 3650 posts, RR: 5 Reply 1, posted (6 years 3 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 12470 times:
Quoting Blackbird (Thread starter): think the craziest one I ever did was fly over Orange County (CA) at 1000 feet
Any reason as to why Orange County? Perhaps you wanted to piss off the rich snobs living near SNA?
I think the craziest things ive ever done in FS are flying under bridges with the 747's, barrelrolls, landings 1/2 mile behind a departing plane, its goes on and on.
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Boeinglover24 From United States of America, joined Apr 2006, 304 posts, RR: 5 Reply 3, posted (6 years 3 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 12457 times:
I didn't do this on purpose..........
Flying NRT-DTW fell asleep 2 hours out of Michigan just dozed off ,crashed somewhere in NC : (
Gunsontheroof From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 3462 posts, RR: 11 Reply 5, posted (6 years 3 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 12423 times:
Spending several hundred dollars on add-ons for something I'm only marginally interested in and don't use that often. Oops!
GAIsweetGAI From Norway, joined Jul 2006, 883 posts, RR: 7 Reply 8, posted (6 years 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 12405 times:
Define "crazy"...
-Fly the C172 around the world
-do a loop in a C172
-do barrel rolls in many A/C (and sometimes recover at 5ft AGL or so)
-t/o, then do a very steep turn (85 degrees) and land on the same runway, again in many A/C
-fly under bridges
-fly at mach .98 in a 737-500
I'm sure I could find some more- do any of the above count?
"There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
AC773 From Canada, joined Nov 2005, 1730 posts, RR: 3 Reply 9, posted (6 years 3 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 12372 times:
Well, the craziest thing I did today was land a B-52 at SEA. The catch was, I started out 12,000 feet directly over the runway, heading in the exact opposite direction. I waited a few seconds to give myself some space, then I cut the engines and deployed the spoilers to enter a very high-speed dive.
It's easy enough to estimate what descent angle you need, so I did just that, and upon completion of a single 180* turn to line me up with the runway heading, I was close enough to the glideslope.
Mind you I don't do this kind of stuff to challenge myself, it's really more of a split-second decision made out of partial boredom.
Better to be nouveau than never to have been riche at all.
I did that, I was flying online for the first time with a friend and my pc crashed, he had about 10mins ahead of me but I beat him by flying at 0.98 mach! I landed and looked for him and the airport then I saw him on approcach :P
Also on multi me and a friend had a race in 747's about 100NM we both got them up to about 1mach at about 200 feet high
I've down countless things stupid like trying to fly the LDS 767 twice its normal range and ran out of fuel 30NM from the runway and i drifted it in, just
Rgds --James--
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Qantas744ER From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 1252 posts, RR: 4 Reply 13, posted (6 years 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 12328 times:
Quoting Blackbird (Thread starter): What's the craziest thing you've ever done in FS... regardless of what version you've had?
Not playing FS was by far the craziest thing i have ever done!
InnocuousFox From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2805 posts, RR: 16 Reply 16, posted (6 years 3 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 12283 times:
Quoting LAXspotter (Reply 1): landings 1/2 mile behind a departing plane, its goes on and on.
Hell, with the stupid ATC AI, this happens all the time.
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InnocuousFox From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2805 posts, RR: 16 Reply 17, posted (6 years 3 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 12282 times:
Quoting QFA380 (Reply 10): The craziest thing I've done was fly a 717 up to 60 000 feet, cruised for about half an hour at M.94 then went into a dive and reached about M2.5.
Yeah, that's a realistic model. You don't think the wings would have ripped off at some point?
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MidEx216 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 651 posts, RR: 4 Reply 18, posted (6 years 3 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 12276 times:
Flying inverted, dragging my tail through the waters of Pearl Harbor in a Thunderbirds F-16
Flying DL 738 downwind at MKE, did a diving turn-to-final
With a 717 at 5% fuel MKE, hit 330kts on the deck, then climbed at 60° until reaching 120 kts, and leveled out. Got me to 15,000 feet.
Took the Extra 300 to Istanbul, did an Immelman over one bridge, a loop around another, and then flew under the third low bridge. The low one was so close that my wheels were dragging through the water.
Flying a 734 between buildings in downtown Osaka
Shutting the engines off at 7000 feet, diving straight to the runway threshold, and scrubbing off all of the speed for landing.
Finally, one of my favorites, I had a Dash-8-Q400 trimmed so well, that I let go of the stick, and it practically landed itself. No autoland.
AA61Hvy From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 13975 posts, RR: 59 Reply 19, posted (6 years 3 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 12269 times:
Flying from JFK-Martinique on an AA 763 real time... Except I started drinking after take off... I crashed on landing in Martinique (cross winds and drinking don't mix).. Wasted 3+ hrs.
GAIsweetGAI From Norway, joined Jul 2006, 883 posts, RR: 7 Reply 20, posted (6 years 3 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 12181 times:
I forgot- landing in a Fokker 50 about a dozen feet (I think) behind a departing baron,
Manage to fly the Wright Flyer for the whole length of CDG's longer runway, and stall at the end.
"There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
LTU932 From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 13864 posts, RR: 51 Reply 21, posted (6 years 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 12178 times:
Quoting GAIsweetGAI (Reply 8): -do barrel rolls in many A/C (and sometimes recover at 5ft AGL or so)
Speaking of which, I did a barrel roll with an A330 once. I just had to disable a few things in the panel in order for the aircraft to stop controlling what I'm doing.
QFA380 From Australia, joined Jul 2005, 2030 posts, RR: 1 Reply 22, posted (6 years 3 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 12170 times:
Quoting InnocuousFox (Reply 17): You don't think the wings would have ripped off at some point?
IF I had the realism setting 'Stress causes Aircraft Damage' on. I don't think it was that realistic anyway, so I decided to have a play around with it.
Cadet985 From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 1408 posts, RR: 5 Reply 23, posted (6 years 3 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 12113 times:
Quoting LAXspotter (Reply 1): I think the craziest things ive ever done in FS are flying under bridges with the 747's
Quoting LTU932 (Reply 6): I slewed a Cessna up to over 60,000 ft, went into a steep dive and managed to land it in one piece.
Anyone remember the part from the movie Independence Day where Wil Smith is being chased by the alien fighter through the Grand Canyon? I do that stuff in almost anything I can find when I get really bored. Also, I will do low level aerobatics around Manhattan, and i have one of the freeware add-on sceneries with a lot of buildings.
Amy From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2005, 1150 posts, RR: 9 Reply 24, posted (6 years 3 weeks 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 12050 times:
Took off backwards in a Harrier.
A340-300 - slow, but awesome!
25 WestJetForLife: Try pulling a 737-700 into a 75° nose-up at full throttle (103% N1), doing a corkscrew turn to FL410, and then pushing that mother down at nearly 90Â
26 CptSpeaking: I was power-sliding the Baron across the ramp at LCK tonight...that was kinda funny to watch from tower view haha Multi-player heli races from buildin
27 Flyboyseven: spinning around the wingtip of a piper cub, while flying, with the wing on the water.
28 JAGflyer: Land a 747 on the AC carrier near SFO (I think). I put it right near the boat with the speed at like 50 and the flaps full then just pushed it down. I
29 MidEx216: I forgot, flying wing on various AI planes. Most recently I flew YX MD-88 on the wing of a NW A319, but this is the only occurrence I have a picture
30 Flyboyseven: doing circuts, and landing and taxiing with only the autopilot in various aircraft.
31 Jamesbuk: Oh yeh I've done that, started doing a flight, lobbed the A/P on then somehow stalled, restarted the flight and the A/P is on and dont realise untill
32 GAIsweetGAI: How could I forget- - documented evidence of putting some A/C's STOL capabilities to test:
33 WestJetYQQ: I set the headwind to 200 knots then took off backwards in my LearJet!
34 Blackbird: GAI, 757's engines don't spool up that fast!!! Andrea Kent
35 GAIsweetGAI: Well, I don't expect 757 pilots to hit F4 (ie full throttle instantly) either. But that doesn't really affect the fact that the 757 can take off usin
37 KaiGywer: Not without messing with the settings, but I gave the 737 150,000 lbs of thrust per engine once Took off before the numbers, flew straight up to 99,99
38 71Zulu: Yeah, jacking up the engine thrust is always fun, think I had an FFX 732 with 125,000 lbs per side Increase the winds to 200 mph and hover land and ta
39 KaiGywer: Practicing to fly A330s for Air Transat?
40 WestJetForLife: Or how about 767s for Air Canada? I hear those can glide REAL nice. Nik
41 AirPacific747: Flew around the equator in a C172 real-time, non-stop... lol The most boring flight I've ever done I think. I have also flown LHR to SYD non-stop in a
42 Bok269: Barrel rolls in a 172, etc. Swerving around a tree on the approach path and straightening out right on the runway for TNCS.
43 InnocuousFox: Ok... that's just dumb. Please tell me you just wandered in to check on it once in a while and didn't just sit at the computer the whole time!
44 FlyMIA: nose dive at 99.000 feet and reach over 2,000KIAS. Climb to FL350 in less than 2-3minutes in a F-15 by passing mach 1.4 right at ground level. An airs
46 AirPacific747: lol! You think I'd sit in front of the computer for like 7 days non-stop without sleeping or anything?? :P That would indeed be dumb! As you said, I
47 Jamesbuk: But your computer crashed and you never made it. I done it in a Cessna Caravan i think it was, took me 5 days non stop. Rgds --James--
49 AirPacific747: However; The plane was so slow that by the time my computer crashed, you had just landed your Cessna Caravan back at WSSS, so I spent just as much ti
50 Jamesbuk: I flew the next plane up from you... so I guess it was the caravan, without the floats I remember i was flying the next plane up as you were bitching
51 AirPacific747: Nah I was bitching more about the fact that you were overspeeding most of the way as usual
52 Jamesbuk: Theres overspeeding, and then theres flying the plane within a safe limit. Anyway who are you to complain about overspeed... haven't you been pulled
53 AirPacific747: That's not overspeeding as I was below 250km/h
54 Jamesbuk: Before or after you saw the cop? Also how many times did you overspeed your banger of a plane? Rgds --James--
55 AirPacific747: 0 if you mean the times I saw the "OVERSPEED" warning at the right corner of the screen.. you know the one you think is supposed to be there when fly
56 Jamesbuk: Hey I just make up for the delays you always cause me in online flights like "Oh hang on just got to program my FMS and where is the runway" etc Rgds
57 AirPacific747: n00b it's called an FMC in a Boeing which is the brand I always fly
58 Jamesbuk: Thats funny... just reading a bit on the boeing website and they clearly say http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aer...zine/aero_03/textonly/sy01txt.htm
59 AirPacific747: There's a difference between a Flight Management System and a Flight Management Computer And I think you 'forgot' the rest of that quote: "or Smiths
60 Jamesbuk: Yeh the FMS is the name for the whole system, the FMC is the name for a particular section... so me saying FMS is correct, if i said you were program
61 AirPacific747: I updated my previous post.. take a look And yes you were kind of wrong [Edited 2007-08-28 01:01:52]
62 Jamesbuk: the "Or" just implies that they have 2 names for it.. the main system (FMS) and the sub computer (FMC) Read properly next time Rgds --James--
63 AirPacific747: No it doesn't. It implies that they have two different suppliers of the FMC. "- Flight management system (FMS) with either the Honeywell or Smiths fl
64 Jamesbuk: You had "conveniently" left out the beginning of that quote. All the FMC is referring to is the Computer that is put into the FMS. It can be either a
65 AirPacific747: So have you apparently because I don't see it anywhere in your post Bingo, you finally got it straight! Learn to: 1. Twist your own and other people'
66 Jamesbuk: Ah but that was after the bit i needed to quote and a seperate bullet point. You deliberately cut up a sentence. I'd been saying that all along, whic
67 AirPacific747: And you deliberately didn't quote at all? Perhaps, I just want you to be more exact. That's like saying: "I'm going to Europe" or "I'm going to Afric
68 Jamesbuk: Check again... Thanks i stayed up all night learning how to do it... If you'd said that in the first place you couldv'e gone to bed like you said you
69 AirPacific747: I was talking about reply 64, so I thought it was obvious that I was right all along anyway. I even have evidence that you knew I was too:
70 Jamesbuk: In my defence... my comment in the above image was because he had edited his reply after posting mine, therefore meaning i had to go through all the
71 AirPacific747: Yadda yadda yadda To shoot yourself in the foot? Ah yes, but you know that I am fiddling with the FMC in FS, not the entire FMS, so it wasn't very pr
72 Jamesbuk: But the Autopilot is included in the FMS and you could've been setting the altitude - less precise but cover all possibilities :p Nope to prove that
73 AirPacific747: Well I wasn't, so you still suck and I am still right As in incorrect Yes because we both know that you're wrong
74 Jamesbuk: But you could have been... Nah I am correct Hardly wrong, Just that I used a broader term to describe what you were doing at the time. Go for a coupl
75 AirPacific747: But I wasn't No. Hey it's good practice if you wanna become a pilot
76 Bongo: On FS 9 I tried to cross the Pacific Ocean in a Cessna
77 Longhornmaniac: I've tried to see how fast I could go in an F-16. I full-throttled it to 90,000 feet, then came back down at a 90 degree angle, and got to about 7,500
78 Longhornmaniac: This reminds me, I took off in a 757 from SEA's 16L, did a full loop, came back, and greased the landing on 34R. That was fun! Cheers, Cameron
79 InbarD: I've done heaps of stuff with 744, including barrel roles, loops, crashing into ground and heaps of other crazy stunts.
80 Adman737: i flew from ecuador to miami in a AA 757 from posky it was 4 and half hour flight. next on fsx i am gonna do manchester to newyork and i plan on doing
81 N710PS: When I have time I fly a JetBlue 320 and I recreate all the real delays. You can drink alot of beer in 11 hours sitting on a taxiway at JFK. hahahahha
82 Dazed767: In a 777-300/ER flew JFK westbound around the world and landed back at JFK....with 2,700lbs of fuel left
83 SpenceSaab: In FS2004, started the "Barnstorming Challenge" and took the Curtis Jenny up to the maximum height permissable in FS9 (99,999ft) usuing the slew funct
84 SandroZRH: I flew a fictional steak wrapped in bacon
85 N710PS: Does anyone recall the naked man addon for 2002? Or wasit 2004? I used to take that thing flying and turned off the crash function at one point so I c
86 StarAC17: Landing and taking off from YTZ in a 744 (Also did this in Meigs in FS98 and 2000) . This was before the days of the realistic planes that can be down
88 Dazed767: For a good time, try flying out of SESM (towards the 7,000 rock wall). Best I can do is the L-45, with about 300lbs of fuel lol.
89 Gerry: What happened to my posts and ythose of the James's. I repeat the request that has been deleted- can we have a forum like the one we had here years ag
90 Jamesbuk: Probably went missing due to server transition. Why don't you like it? Everyone is happy except you... There are still serious threads and no one is
91 A380fo: how can you do this. i know you can slew but only left, right , and side to side... help
92 LTU932: Mess around with the F1 to F4 keys when in slew mode.
93 UltimateDelta: One time I attempted to dive-bomb some buildings in NYC in a 737-800... and landed on the roof of the hangar at Offutt AFB... and flew an F-18 at 200
94 BlueSky1976: Aerobatics in default Lear 45 Loops in default 737-400 Multiple barrel-rolls in PoSky 737-800 (with winglets) Barrel-rolled in MelJet 777-200LR ...of
95 StarAlliance38: I flew a Delta plane........ Lol, JK I flew a 747 between two airports that are like 100 miles apart from each other lol
96 UltimateDelta: I also approached SXM at an altitude of approximately 50 feet. I also used the slew mode to fly between FRA and IAD in two hours. I saw the sun set an
97 KAA330: well not me but my Dad 744 overshots of Rwy at BEY and SHA (in BEY damaged wing) crash an A321 in Paris Airshow trial(bet the spectators werent happy)
98 AA61Hvy: I took off from Catalina Island on a SQ 772 yesterday....
99 Cpd: M2.11 in a Concorde - at 66,000ft in level flight. It was very fortunate weather conditions. I've never been able to achieve it ever again. I think 2.
100 Qantas744ER: Landed my PMDG 744 on thar runway 31R at KBFI leo
101 Cpd: I just took a Concorde out for a flight - and tried again to beat that M2.0 in 8.5 minutes record. I timed myself at 10min 49sec to Mach 2.0 in ISA co
102 UltimateDelta: I also flew a 737 on approach to ATL at 35 feet because the weather was set at 'Fog' and I couldn't see above that. One time in Las Vegas I hit the Mo
103 Ebs757: Just flew an A343 on two engines from MCO-ORD. Empty of course
104 StarAlliance38: I was flying a Cessna Grand Amphib. from London Luton to London City (long flight eh). I'm looking at the GPS and I turn into the final approach. So,
105 UltimateDelta: My latest act was taking an AirCreation Trike ultralight to 290,000 feet with the slew mode. Before that, I landed it on the roof of the First nationa
106 Airbatica: In FS5, I landed a DC-9 on the aircraft carrier out in San Francisco Bay. Full flaps, speed brakes, and max reverse thrust as I came over the edge of
107 787seattle: i downloaded a bad freeware A380 model and slewed it from france to the north pole at 60,000knots (yes, FSX lets you do that in slew). a stupid thing
109 StarAC17: I have never attempted it in FS9, how much fuel and payload did you have to pull it off. My guess is none and you ticked unlimited fuel Don't mean to
110 WILCO737: Wow, THAT is for sure crazy! I should try that once WILCO737 (MD11F)
111 EIEGAA: I can't seem to do this in FS9 even though I could do it on the previous versions. It's very frustrating.
112 AcroAirFun: It was about 2 weeks ago... I flown Alitalia MD80 at FL330 and I made zero visibility and maximal rain under 20,000ft. I also made 4 layers of overcas
113 FighterPilot: Drove a 747 off the Grand Canyon and took off. Cal
114 WILCO737: Yeah, I heard that the 744 will be used for sightseeing flights over and IN the Grand Canyon! I bet you're the test pilot here eh? WILCO737 (MD11F)
115 B747forever: Jeez, that seems just to amazing, dude. But I believe you.
116 LHboyatDTW: I flew LHR-BNA in a 777 with the simulation sped up. It took me around 1 hour to cross the Atlantic.
117 StarAC17: I do that for almost all the flights that I do because it takes up a lot less time . at 16x LAX-SYD takes about an hour.
118 FighterPilot: Just a few more: Flew the SR-71 at about 1000ft AGL off the ground at ohhhh Mach 2.something. Cranked the wind speed up to around 200-250kts and took
120 Trekster: Just been doing an online flt with a certain other anetter. Him flying GLA-ALC, me flying LGW-GLA. Him is a LD767, me in a BA320 (from avsim, so basic
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