August 11, 201114 yr I was doing the tutorial for the third time. Although I had succeeded in programing and carrying out my own full flight, I hd not managed to autoland in the two previous tutorial tries - the first time I could not get VNAV to work so I had to fly partially by hand, and the second time, the aircraft would not slow down and bounced up and down on the runway until it overran and crashed against the fence. This time, everything was going according to Hoyle, the rollout and flare notices were on the MFP, and when about 50 feet off the ground, I shifted to the outside view to watch the flare and touchdown (I guess this is the equivalent of the pilot sticking his head out of the window...). To my horror, I noticed that I had forgotten to put the wheels down!! I immediately pushed the G button on the keyboard, and gritted my teeth as the gear slowly deployed while the plane settled onto the runway. the wheels locked down about a quarter of a second before they touched down....WHEW! It turned out that I had also forgotten to put the flaps at 30 and left them at 25...would anyone care to get in with me in a real plane? I'm going to get into the habit of using checklists, and get out of this "bush pilot" manner of flying airliners... Henri Henri Arsenault
August 11, 201114 yr Library Administrator I am sort of surprised you didnt get the gear warning horn..unless that sounds only at 30+ flaps. Brian A. Neuman Proud simmer since 1982 using the following simulators: Sublogic Flight Simulator 1 and 2. Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0, 5.1, FS95, FS98, FS2000, FS2002, FS2004, FSX (and unfortunately Flight!). Terminal Reality Fly 1 and 2. Sierra Pro Pilot, Looking Glass/Eidos/Electronic Arts Flight Unlimited I, II and III, Laminar Research X-Plane 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, FS Aerofly 2, Lockheed Martin Perpar3D 2.X, 3.X, 4.X and 5.X and Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020). Not to mention numerous combat simulators and games related to flight that I have played with over the years. System: Intel I7-7700K-Water Cooled, 32GB Ram, GTX 1080Ti, 500gb SSD, 1TB HD and dedicated 1TB and 2TB SSD's for Flight Simulators
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