Hey all -Been flyin 767 PIC for over 2 years and I have never had an emergency until today. Plodding along on VATSIM, leaving KDEN via the ROCKI3 SID, my left engine cuts out and won't relight. The engine N2 won't budge past 45%...So I get vectors back to KDEN(man what great ATC in that area, top knotch), and begin the 16 visual into KDEN. Then, I got the bright idea to try something else with the starter switch. I move the thing to 'cont' and all the sudden the friggin things light right back up.That embarassed me because I thought I knew this plane and I forgot something so basic as to not be funny, and it was embarrasing to be approaching KDEN under the pretense of an emergency(which was quite real when I declared it ;-)) with two engines running just fine.I was AAL100 in the iFDG 757 merge. Ah well, perhaps I will plan another flight out of DEN soon }(So, what was your first emergency in 767 PIO?

Was doing a CYYZ - KLAX in the ole'bird..... Engine #1 failed, electricals gone.. got vectors into KCLE and crashed.

I think mine was a fuel problem (or a pilot problem....he he he). I miscalculated the fuel and ended up landing for a fuel stop. Uneventful, but a major problem for my virtual pax. :)

Hi all,good thread! Mine was on descent into Rovanemi (SP) in Finland (Santa Trips in the winter) and my No 1 Engine gave up on me :-roll well I couldn't get it restarted, so called Mayday and was very quickly number one as planes ahead of my were moved out of the way :-halo well I just made it onto the deck, in rather nice low vis conditions :sNever happened again since, and I didn't have failures switched on :sIan

My first and only emergency was after a bloody 10+ hour real time flight from KLAX to EDDF. At about 9k feet my right engine says "Well, that's about enough for me, I"ll see ya later". Continued into Frankfurt (no ATC on at that time of the morning on VATSIM) on one engine and actually had a good landing much to my surprise. Never did get the engine relit.

As I never got an emergency I progressively increased the random failure settings till I had failures from time to time.I found the best setting is one or two per day.My flights are usually between 1-1/2 and 5 hrs, and I now get a random failure every third or fourth flight.

Never had a failure as bad as an engine. I have all the failure sliders to the right except for the "flight controls" slider and have the frequency set to 5/month. I have had it set this way for about 6 months now and have only seen two "minor" failures.A duct leak and my autobrakes failed. :-)Perhaps I'll tempt fate and crank the frequency up a bit.

I don't remember having a failure or an emergency on a VATSIM flight although I have random failures set to 3 per month. However I can tell you what is a lot of fun when a group of flightsimmers has gathered together. During Finnish Virtual Aviators Association's summer camp at J

I do recall myself triggering a flameout when flying trough some heavy rain clouds...relighted them without a problem(i triggered it myself so 100% conscient).never done that online anyway, the only thing i ever did online was some electrical failures. so landing on the stby instruments, was pretty cheap but with vectors from the ATC it all went well. i squawked 7700 and declared a 'pan pan pan' ;)(bread, bread, bread...)must admit i didn't adhere to ALL speeds(for flaps extension tables etc)Cheers

This sounds really interesting Mikael and is a great idea. Unfortunately my network here at work is not letting me see the sites you are linking to. I will check them out later this evening.My first failure was in route from South America to the US. This was well before I had the nerve to turn on the random failures. I decided I wanted to turn a 10 hour flight into a 2 hour flight. I pulled one of my tricks where I go off line, set the FMC to go direct to a waypoint about 2000 miles ahead, turn off the autopilot, set the simulation rate to 64X, and grab the yoke with both hands while following (trying to follow) the magenta line. After coming out of warp speed and reconnecting to VATSIM, I find that the number 2 engine is totally hosed and unable to restart. So at FL390 with 400 miles to go, and a lot of that over the Gulf of Mexico, I found myself in a situation that I had not yet encountered.Being somewhat unprepared for the situation, the first thing I summize is that there is no way I can maintain altitude (begin the perspiration on the forehead). While pulling out the non-normal checklist, I noticed a good friend and retired real world 767 captain is online (several of you can figure out who that was). I likened the situation to a real world problem where the crew contacts the company flight support people. So I sent a text message indicating the situation and what followed was very sweet. He sent me a series of brief procedures to execute and then briefed the landing procedure. After leveling off at around FL270, the rest of the flight went very smoothly until I decided to be Mr. Hotshot and turn off the AP a little too soon on the arrival. With a few bob-n-weave moves in the final minute of flight, the actual touchdown was perfect.The following week I did a flight into Washington National and a few of the guys (Rob, Steve, maybe Murf or Ian) wanted to do a quick hop up to New York. I plugged in the flight plan and filed real quick and estimated my remaining fuel was enough to make this very short flight. What I did not anticipate was that we never got cleared above FL190 and then New York center needed us down to something like 12000 for a considerable period on the arrival. In all the excitement of a busy online flight with a lot of traffic, I never even looked at my fuel till it was too late. Number 2 engine went dry about 10 miles from intercepting the localizer. With only a couple hundred pounds in the left tank, crossfeeding and doing a restart was out of the question. What followed was not pretty but with the experience from the previous week, we got down just fine. Everyone thought I was faking the emergency till after I landed and I confessed that I had run out of fuel. Then all I hear is :-lol :-lol :-lol

Here is one for you. If you have an engine failure, get as close as you can using the operational engine, Start the APU, get the APU generators on. Once in range to land, and you think you can make it, shutdown the running engine. Now what you have is a 767pic glider. Glide in and watch your speeds and land! Everyone is happy.