November 5, 201114 yr I thought I'd make this evening's flight more interesting with a failure. I was only going from Gatwick to Manchester - how bad could it be?Took off, started climing and at about FL150 all hell broke loose. A/P and F/D on the Captain's side dropped out, so quickly engage A/P B and try to figure out what was going wrong. I look at the master caution panels on both sides and they're both indicating mutiple failures. The yaw damper had droped out, as had both mach and speed trims, auto-brake, anti-skid and the primary pressurisation controller I was cleared to FL240 so let the plane continue to climb en-route as I needed some time to figure out what was wrong. I tried trouble shooting but couldn't figure it out quickly, so decided to run as many QRH items as I could before the descent into Manchester.Ultimately the only thing I could do was plan for flaps 40 landing with manual braking and spoiler extension, which actually went smoothly in the end.So after pulling up to the gate I looked at the failure page to see what had gone wrong: DC Bus 1 failure!I should have figured that out, as when the failure occured, the dome light came on, or so it appeared. Of course, this was actually the emergency lighting that automatically comes on following a loss of power from the DC Bus.Looking forward to my next failure, and the cascade of potential problems that may result! Jordan Forrest
November 10, 201114 yr Interesting, while descending into KSEA I experienced a hydraulic failure and a loss of all power in engine 2. I was at about 3000 feet , I disengaged autopilot and auto throttle as I was losing airspeed. I applied appropriate throttle and landed safely at KSEA. It was a "routine" failure as I had not set any failures in the FMC. It made things rather interesting as I was flying "low and slow". John Shlofrock KORD Intel Xeon X 5460 3.16 GHZ (quad core) 8.00 GB RAM Nvidia Quadro FX 5600 1.5 GB HP w2408 24" monitor Vista Business 64 bit
November 10, 201114 yr Just yesterday, I was coming into KFLL at night, then all of a sudden, autothrottle off, VNAV, etc. turns out a fuel pump failed, and the engine shut off, then did a auto-cross start(?). Fun to experience failures!
November 10, 201114 yr the only thing happened to me was just a door light not going out, a couple APU faults, nothing big yet Bryan Richards "People depend so much on automation that they forget how to get the automation to work." B.W.
November 10, 201114 yr All I have had so far are consistent "FWD OVRWING" door warnings. They dissapear when I advance the throttles. Weird thing is I have no door failures or random failures selected. "To most the sky is the limit but to me it's home" Rick Harms (CYVR) i7 [email protected] (for now) asus p6t v2, 6gb ocz 1600 CL7 ram. BFG 285 oc, vista 64, Samsung 52" 1080p lcd track IR5. PMDG j41, 747-400x, 747-8i/f, NGX.......Finally!!!!
November 10, 201114 yr A good 30 flights in and no failures - nothing./knockonwood Take-offs are optional, landings are mandatory.The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire. To make a small fortune in aviation you must start with a large fortune.There's nothing less important than the runway behind you and the altitude above you. It's better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground.
November 10, 201114 yr All I have had so far are consistent "FWD OVRWING" door warnings. They dissapear when I advance the throttles. Weird thing is I have no door failures or random failures selected.That's normal! Regards Andrea Daviero
November 10, 201114 yr Indeed, it happens in real life too and is a well documented "quirk" of the NG. Name available upon request
November 10, 201114 yr I have made 3 flights and 2 of them had failures. The first one the auto pressure system had a total failure so I was forced to manually adjust the air pressure. On the second during approach the aircraft went way below the ILS glide slope and for some reason there was no warning or anything. The ILS glideslope on the main PFD showed straight on but the backup one showed way too low.On second thought that doesn't sound normal, maybe a bug Manfred G. Ships are cooler that you think.
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