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N965UW wrote:My sim of choice is FSX so that's where my stories come from:
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On several occasions I've blown right past the top of descent point and put the plane into a dive 20-30 miles from the airport. Made it in but the pax probably weren't thrilled
Boeing757100 wrote:In FS2020 today, I planned a route from ATL-DOH but for whatever reason, I put OMDB instead of OTHH which means that I was flying to Dubai instead of Doha! I only found out about this a few hours into the flight and I legit just facepalmed myself. Anyways, I luckily corrected the error by changing the destination airport in the FMS, deleting and adding some waypoints and reprogramming the approach and STAR. What I did was probably highly unrealistic but at this point, the existing route I had was efficient enough to still just divert to Doha. But boy oh boy do I feel like an idiot after that!
How about you guys? What was the dumbest mistake that you've ever made in any flight sim (as a rookie or as an experienced player)?
af773atmsp wrote:During a flight to PHX with a 737, a Concorde overtook me with only 500 or so feet difference in altitude. The jet wash caused severe turbulence for my plane.
ACDC8 wrote:Its a flight simulator being used in the privacy of my own home, why would I be embarrassed of anything while playing it?
Ps762 wrote:Hi,
Many thanks and as more of an old-timer I guess in flightsim I can't remember anything specific although I'm sure I started a flight or two by just running off the runway somehow before quickly restarting! Not to mention a few times or more getting kinda lost when trying to fly IFR with Fs9 ATC and losing contact on a STAR?
But as for more embarrassing in front of others I think I remember trying to do the Fsx A380 Paris Airshow mission with my brother watching maybe which was not fun as for me it was not an easy mission. And the worst was in Fs9 trying to do things like the IFR checkride with the voice of Rod (or Rob?) Machado telling me sorry I had failed again and again and again!
But ah some good times though in general so many thanks at least for the memories(!),
Ps762
cpd wrote:
They need to bring back Martha and John King! I can’t remember if they were FS2004 or earlier?
cpd wrote:They need to bring back Martha and John King! I can’t remember if they were FS2004 or earlier?
Noshow wrote:Sort of embarrassing was the fact that I could "perfectly" sim fly with no joystick or pedals but just with a mouse (that early roundish design iMac mouse if your know what I mean)
Noshow wrote:How many MSFS gamers while being occasional real aircraft passengers might quietly hope for both pilots having had "the fish"?
Noshow wrote:I seem to remember the final mission of F/A-18 was to nuke some dam. But the sim was great and of unheard "pro" quality and frame rate. Still more about systems and weapons than eye candy.
flyingturtle wrote:Noshow wrote:How many MSFS gamers while being occasional real aircraft passengers might quietly hope for both pilots having had "the fish"?
I admit I dream of that, too, sometimes! After all, flight simmers know some very important things about landing an aircraft. But one cannot simulate screwing up and losing the life...
CarlosSi wrote:1. Gear down landing at AUS… with the a320.
AirKevin wrote:CarlosSi wrote:1. Gear down landing at AUS… with the a320.
Isn't that what you want when you land. Certainly you don't want to land with the gear up.
CarlosSi wrote:AirKevin wrote:CarlosSi wrote:1. Gear down landing at AUS… with the a320.
Isn't that what you want when you land. Certainly you don't want to land with the gear up.
Hahahahaha, for some reason things being down normally sounds like a bad thing.
AirKevin wrote:CarlosSi wrote:AirKevin wrote:Isn't that what you want when you land. Certainly you don't want to land with the gear up.
Hahahahaha, for some reason things being down normally sounds like a bad thing.
Gear down means wheels down. Gear up means wheels up. You wouldn't want to land wheels up.
AirKevin wrote:CarlosSi wrote:1. Gear down landing at AUS… with the a320.
Isn't that what you want when you land. Certainly you don't want to land with the gear up.