Moving it along - P-38 w/ tanks Also practicing landing on short fields with 30% fuel left in tank. P-38 seems pretty forgiving on short fields if you carry a little too much airspeed and have to get it down and the brakes on.

Uh oh - FOrgot to double check my fuel load prior to taking baton. Ended up running dry a little short. Had to divert to MPJE. Engines failed due to fule starvation. Dead stick landing at 135knts best glide speed. A bit of a space shuttle approach profile, but I did not want to give up any altitude until the last possible moment, so I was a bit high.

Just to practice. The locals at this little dirt strip were a little apprehensive about some stranger landing on their field in a vintage aircraft, but cash talks so I am back at with a fuel.Looking forward to approach into SKMD

A nice short leg. The P-38 with the dive recovery brake, flaps, and gear extended will come dowm from the flight levels at 6000 feet per and stay under 200 knts. Interesting though I did not get 3 green when checking the landing gear. The nose gear was still red. I slowed if down under 200 before adding all of the DRAG and diving in. It held.

I had that a couple times last year and since.Upon landing - hard braking or letting the nose gear hit hard would collapse it. I didn't always get a crash - sometimes I was slow enough that it just skidded down the runway in the nose.I've also stood the DC-3 and the C-182 on their nose and not had crashes.

The gears won't "latch" i belive is the term, if your going to fast when you pull them out. While it is possible to have the plane land with it on red I've also had the sim crash me in this instance. I guess the gear collapsed.Slow down just a tad more before pulling it out.

I have the baton SKMD-SEQUIn the P38-L LightningJozef K. http://homepages.onsnet.nu/~jkusters/signature.jpg

Baton free and back at SKMD.FS2004 crashed on approach at SEQU. x(Jozef K. http://homepages.onsnet.nu/~jkusters/signature.jpg

Thanks to the autosave module (which saves my flights every 3 minutes automatically) I have finished the approach and landing at SEQU. FS2004 crashed when I pressed the "/"-key to deploy the dive brake. It did it again in my second attempt, but I pressed it only after safe landing, to see what happened. Of course there is no valid Duenna, because I restarted FS2004 and loaded the saved flight. I leave it to the next pilot whether to start at SKMO again or continue from SEQU. Of course we cannot do this in the Race.Now I am going to try to find out what the problem is with the "/"-key in FS2004.Jozef K. http://homepages.onsnet.nu/~jkusters/signature.jpg

It appears that the "dive flaps light" is the culprit. After removing it from the panel, the problem has gone. I have replaced it with the Mooney "Speed brake" light.Jozef K. http://homepages.onsnet.nu/~jkusters/signature.jpg

P-51H offline.Did anyone notice that there's a gap between SKMD and SEQU?CB

A "bad" gauge - thanks for the info - now I can fix mine !!!! :-)

Crashed - stepped away while on autopilot. Not sure what happened as the flight had reset itself when I got back. Won't do that again. Will retry.CB

Que the twilight zone music........I grabbed the practice route airport codes from a spreadsheet of legs flown from last years race and there was an autofilter set that caused a few legs not to be displayed.Jeff

If at first you don't succeed - that's what practice is for, right?CB