Gear Failure!

[Guest TooMuchFS]

Has anyone had any unexpected aircraft system failures? Today I lowered my gear during an ILS approach and noticed the gear motor sound was very shot lived. The gear knob was red so I went to an external view and noticed all 3 wheels only lowered about half way. I recycled the gear but it still no fully lowered gear. I couldn'y find a manual gear lowering system so did a (successful :Big Grin: ) gear up landing!

 

I wouldn't have thought the modellling was that sophisticated?

 

Any one else have anything like it?

 

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[HawkDsl 50]

Not yet.. But I'd be looking to hit someone after a belly sanding of my 4 million dollar plane!

[Vealhoffen 0]

I had a gear failure after about 10 hrs in mine. I had 3 green lights, but on roll-out my right main failed. haven't had any problems since then...Ive got roughly 60 hrs with it now.

[lucaguccione 1]

Are failures simulated in this model?

[yellow5 0]

Interesting. I had a left main not retract on take off. I don't think it is an issue. Perhaps I hit the gear up to soon while not fully off the ground... I thought it was cool. So I did an emergency procedure back to the airport. I was IFR the whole time. Made for an interesting flight in the sim...

[HawkDsl 50]

Not sure if fails are modeled... but allot of AC can be damaged from bad piloting. I lost use of flaps in my Carenado B58 when trying to deploy w a y too fast.. as well as losing steering in the JetProp from dropping em down too soon.

 

All airspeed damage type things... which I think happens to all AC regardless if it's modeled or not (depending on realism setting)

[cnault2 3]

You can look through the aircraft.cfg of different aircraft and see the limits that say "flaps blown" speeds, etc. They are always at the limits we expect, so I haven't seen any gotchas. I also haven't seen any gear limits other than the max operating and max extension we already know about.

 

How cool is that! I would love to have that happen. Tell Carenado about it - they love to hear about stuff like this instead of just hearing gripes all the time.