I was having trouble with my FSUIPC controlled throttles and red lined my right engine. The very next flight I lost the right engine on take off. I once had my engine fail in real life in a 172 and even though the NGX is just a sim I had the same sinking feeling in my stomach. "Just fly the plane"

 

I welcome you to the club of flying without any power, I experienced it in a Arrow during school flight, flew at 2500' and got it restarted again at 1700', it was due to poorly maintance from the schools part. They had reused a part, they found out as they looked into it after the incident, well also had a electrical failure and gear failure on that a/c.. So its a good thing that we get stressed to remember, fly the a/c fly the a/c fly the a/c.. :-) But in the ngx, yesterday I had a pressure failure at cruise.

 

/ Jakob

I just watched that Nova documentary on the crash of AirFrance 447 after it had left Brazil... And how the cause was discovered to be all three Pitot tubes freezing solid after weather radar had failed to see a massive thunderstorm behind a much smaller one and they flew right into it.

 

Apparently the plane simply lost it's mind and thought all of a sudden it was going 0 knots and knew nothing about the air temperature and pressure altitude, and so it simply fell out of the sky into the ocean as each of the major flight control systems and computers shut down one by one. From the ACARS data, the flight crew had to deal with 24 critical flight system failures in 4 minutes, all in the middle of a major thunderstorm. I can't even imagine the stress...

 

I always wondered why they get those tubes blazing hot enough to sear flesh in an instant if you touch them while they are operating, now I know They showed a demonstration of how pure water at high altitude can "flash Freeze" when it comes into contact with any impurity... That was amazing, and frightening...

 

That's not really what happened. The airplane did freak out, but it was the pilots using the wrong inputs and unable to diagnose the situation properly who stalled the airplane and caused an uncontrollable dive.

My only failures have been to start and finish a flight before my 21 month-old son wakes up from his daytime nap...

 

Last two times my 11month old son woke up the second i cut the engines after parking. The EDDT - LOWI rute appearently is the ideal naptime route for now.

That's not really what happened. The airplane did freak out, but it was the pilots using the wrong inputs and unable to diagnose the situation properly who stalled the airplane and caused an uncontrollable dive.

 

Yeah, the Nova documentary was made before they pulled the black boxes out of the Atlantic so not all of it is correct. Also the Nova documentary was made by a number of investigators working on behalf of the program makers, not by interviewing the actual investigators, which limited some of the data they had access too. For all the latest on AF447 I can highly recommend having a read of the offical reports: http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.af.447/flight.af.447.php