Classic British Flight Sim

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Well, thanks Gentlemen, the engine anti-ice did it!
I presumed the sim does it like mother nature and takes temperature and moisture into account - my fault ;-)

Cheers,

Markus

Excellent Markus

ATB

DaveB :tab:

seawing wrote:Well, thanks Gentlemen, the engine anti-ice did it!
I presumed the sim does it like mother nature and takes temperature and moisture into account - my fault ;-)

Actually Markus, FS does take temp and moisture into account. The DART & HS.748, however, are a bit unusual in that even in situation where icing normally wouldn't occur on the airframe, it can still occur in the engine inlets due to their small size, they can cause the air to condense and then freeze due to the small initial opening of them. Also, because of the relatively thin wing (both in skin thickness and in chord) the fuel will cool much faster than in larger types, so the fuel heaters are needed as the fuel will quickly cool to the point of turning into a slush. As such, the engine heaters and fuel heaters operate based on outside air temperature alone, and not the presence of moisture or icing conditions. So it is doing things right, the airplane just can't be handled like a 777.

OOOOh! Just read this thread today, AFTER a disastrous belly landing on the Genoa grass , alongside concrete runway yesterday evening, after a massive engines failure. :fart:
However , I didnt' have been able to lower undercarriage too, as a consequence. Any connection? :roll:

Hi Kikko

The gear won't come down with the engines off

I was told of a keyboard shortcut for emergency release I think CTRL G or something..forget now, but it didn't work for me :-(

Garry

Think that's it Garry. A word though.. you have to keep hitting it to simulate pumping the gear down. I don't think 'one hit' is enough :think:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Ah....yes.......that reminds me. :think:

I did one hit and I was told that I should have 'pumped' but I have not tried it since.

Thanks Dave

Garry

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It's a handy thing to know Joe as a few have had main gear failures on VA flights. Good thing about the 748 is that Ctrl+G works. When I had my flynet induced gear failure.. I was in a Viscount and no amount of ctrl+g'ing will release the gear giving you 2 options. Crash and never stop bouncing (crash detect off) or dump the flight and hope it's not been an 8hr job like the one I'm doing now! :o

ATB

DaveB :tab: