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Message started by windplayer on Jul 19th, 2012 at 11:14am

Title: Electrical failure!
Post by windplayer on Jul 19th, 2012 at 11:14am
Last night i had complete electrical failure just after takeoff from LOWW.
I circled and landed with no flaps, overran runway and had a huge repairs bill :o pilots injured, but will recover soon.

Guys, I got questions:
How complete electrical failure connected to "flaps dont move" situation?
Should speedbrakes operate with no electrics?
While primary instruments failed, standby artifical horizon worked, how much time it can work? and what power source it uses for gyros?

And what to do in that situation (i mean after doing BIG eyes and screaming HOLY CRAP!!!)?  ;D

BTW general question: how many of us having some failures inflight? How do you think it modeled? i think its very basic, not detailed, but definitely adds some adrenalin to every flight. It rare, but knowing it can happen forces you to look at the gauges all the time  :D

Title: Re: Electrical failure!
Post by Pvjinflight on Jul 19th, 2012 at 11:35am
Do you use Fspassengers?

I had same thing, I was flying Fspassenger cargo flight with cargo 707 that was in really bad shape, I just bought cheapest one I could find, day before I tried same flight and my pressurization went off.

That flight was between Kabul and Kandahar airports, both in Afghanistan. When I had reached my cruising altitude I noticed that my electrical system had failed, but I continued to hand fly the aircraft towards my destination. Then when I descended I finally found out that I couldn't use spoilers and flaps at all, just managed to lower landing gear manually.

To make it all even worse some taliban went and shot one of my engines while on approach (FSPAX has war areas by default), so I had only 3 reversers available and runway was icy. I overran and my pilots got hurt, thankfully I got still my revenue from cargo and the crew got back into service after just few days in local hospital.

Somehow on at least CS 707 FSPAX electrical failure also causes these systems fail too, doesn't seem to be happen with other addons. I actually like it that way.  :D

Title: Re: Electrical failure!
Post by windplayer on Jul 19th, 2012 at 11:57am
yep! i started to use it a year ago just to bring some vibe to flights. its really boring to fly knowing that nothing  will ever fail.
I wish that FSPX be updated to fit airliners better way, or CS will introduce sort of failure and maintenance engine to their products. I will buy it as separate product if they'll make it :)

BTW i doubt that brakes were working too. i engaged pneumatic brake too late, and runway is 11000 ft long!!! Anti-skid went offline too.
And my 707 was in good shape, i maintain em well.

Now pilot Jack Daniels of Whiskey Airlines will spend some time in hospital  ;D

Title: Re: Electrical failure!
Post by windplayer on Jul 19th, 2012 at 4:09pm
OOops :o
I forgot to reset failure probability ratio  ;D
I fly simulated failures and set it to 100%, and forget to reset it to 5-10% for normal operation  ::)

Anyway questions remains ;)

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