Hi folks.

 

Today I had my first failure during flight from TNCM to SBGL.

Just after take off and gear up action, I have noticed gear error message.

I couldn't rise landing gear, also gear door remained in open position after first attempt.

I was moving up and down gears lever but no action.

After few attempts I found proper emergency checklist and gone through.  

Of course I had to revert to my origin airport.

As I was prepared for long flight then before landing at TNCM I had to dump quite few tons of fuel. 

Both emergency and fuel dumping in 777 was absolutely something new and exciting for me.

Everything was happening during night and heavy thunder storm in the area.

Due to gear problems and recommendation of not using thrust reversers, i was approaching dead slow, and touching runway as soft as my skills allow me to do ( visual landing )

All situation was absolutely amazing, and unexpected as should be.

Flight was very short comparing to plan, but this short flight gave me more excitement than whole trip to SBGL.

 

Some shots of my 777 flying through heavy storm and dumping almost 30 tons of A1

 

 

 

 

 

I wish u all some emergency  ( strange wish  :biggrin:  ), but after success u will feel just  :good:  

For what it's worth, don't feel like you always have to return to the origin.  I probably would've diverted to TNCC because it has a longer runway (more along the lines of what a 777 would normally use at 11,000').

 

Just a thought.

Yes great feeling of achievement when you get her back down in the runway.

 

I haven't as yet had a failure that requires a return to the airport, though I have random failures and service based failures activated. I have programmed an engine failure at V2 the 777 handled beautifully on one engine and I made in my opinion a perfect landing back at EGKK.

Kyle, from perspective I agree with u, however hand flying meters above 'maho beach' was also nice experience

 

 

however hand flying meters above 'maho beach' was also nice experience

 

It's a rush, I'll give you that!

Wise choice to dump fuel and return to origin. 

 

For those of you watching, please don't end up like this.