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I use my spare time at work on full-flight military aircraft simulators to fly around and try things like taking off, landing, etc...it was loads of fun, and on

by relic 14y ago

I use my spare time at work on full-flight military aircraft simulators to fly around and try things like taking off, landing, etc...it was loads of fun, and once you were competent at landing a functional aircraft, you could try doing it with any combination of aircraft faults. I'm fairly confident I could land a [fully functional] C-130 if my life depended on it. My new challenge is trying to hook up with a tanker, during which I've caused many a catastrophic accident.

eduardordm 14y ago
This is how you would crash: you would hit the main gear so hard that the rear would bounce back creating a negative angle of attack, making you do it again until you break the airplane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez64Ba98Fto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez64Ba98Fto Now, if someone instructs you to ignore what you see and hear a GPWS I'm 100% sure you would be just fine. The first time I landed a larger airplane I hit the ground so hard it I ended up going to the hospital because of a herniated disc (had it before the event) at that time I had 950 hours of flight.
- Zak 14y ago
  Do modern large aircraft simulators fail to properly account for what happens when you land too hard on the main gear? That seems like exactly the kind of mistake they'd want to simulate accurately.
  - eduardordm 14y ago
    They do, thing is the field of view is not accurate and not 3D, some simulators have a basic 3D rendering (they change the image at frame rate that it 'feels' 3D). So you need to rely on instruments to create a mind image of how high you are. That actually happens not only in simulators: when you are used to land on wide runways, the next time you go land on a narrow one you would flare too low (and approach too low), specially at night. If interested, read this: http://www.avweb.com/news/airman/182402-1.html http://www.avweb.com/news/airman/182402-1.html
    - Evbn 14y ago
      Hmm, I would hope for markers at fixed distances, regardless of the runway size.

by relic 14y ago

eduardordm 14y ago

This is how you would crash: you would hit the main gear so hard that the rear would bounce back creating a negative angle of attack, making you do it again until you break the airplane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez64Ba98Fto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez64Ba98Fto Now, if someone instructs you to ignore what you see and hear a GPWS I'm 100% sure you would be just fine. The first time I landed a larger airplane I hit the ground so hard it I ended up going to the hospital because of a herniated disc (had it before the event) at that time I had 950 hours of flight.

Zak 14y ago
Do modern large aircraft simulators fail to properly account for what happens when you land too hard on the main gear? That seems like exactly the kind of mistake they'd want to simulate accurately.
- eduardordm 14y ago
  They do, thing is the field of view is not accurate and not 3D, some simulators have a basic 3D rendering (they change the image at frame rate that it 'feels' 3D). So you need to rely on instruments to create a mind image of how high you are. That actually happens not only in simulators: when you are used to land on wide runways, the next time you go land on a narrow one you would flare too low (and approach too low), specially at night. If interested, read this: http://www.avweb.com/news/airman/182402-1.html http://www.avweb.com/news/airman/182402-1.html
  - Evbn 14y ago
    Hmm, I would hope for markers at fixed distances, regardless of the runway size.