Yesterday I purchased a new addon for FSX and was very pleased with it. So I immediately tried it out on a flight from KDEN to KLAX, beautiful. Then I shut down the addon and went to test a new tweak dealing with lights flashing on and off in DX 10 mode. That was also successful, until I went to take off in the T7. Upon rotate the nose slammed into the ground, tried to rotate again and bam, nose into the ground. this happened four times before I ran out of runway. Crap. I thought, now what. So I decided to take off from an airport that did not have the Light field Tweak, Same thing happened there.

 

Now I am getting frustrated. So I removed the tweak all together, did not fix the problem. So, guess what I did? I immediately blamed the new addon. Uninstalled it, registry sweep. Nope, you guessed it, didn't fix the problem. So, I decide to take a deep breath and think about this for a moment. I started FSX back up again and this time I watched the T7 from spot view all the way down the runway to see what is happening. Perfect rotation and it took off gracefully as ever. Hmm, I thought, what could have happened, then it hit me. I was so excited with the new addon and successful tweak, that I over rotated on take of that I had Tail Strike after Tail Strike (PMDG 777-300ER).

 

Moral to the story, how many times have we gone off "Half-Cocked" and blamed a recent change in our "Sacred" FSX for a new problem, instead of looking at the "Loose Nut Behind the Yoke"?

 

I hope this helps some of you to get less frustrated when things seem to "Coincidentally" go wrong after a recent change. Thanks for reading.

A really big "Amen" to that.

 

Between all the scenery and plane addons, yokes, pedals, etc,, multiple monitors for some, and other software flight sim addons for weather related things, flight planers, etc.,, and all the tweaks to the FSX software and all the tweaks to the OS and computer.hardware, all for the love of this grand madness, it's amazing that our rigs will boot up at all, and, when they do your can't be sure if your on the edge of the envelope for a catastophic melt down or not.

 

Addon the human factor and its your classic lose, lose scenario.

Excellent post Ric.  Thank you.  

As Frank said, it is amazing that all this stuff works in the first place. If something goes wrong sometimes I blame the sim, and it's turns out flying really is that hard!

 

One thing that's odd is the nose coming back down. The plane is certified to be able to take off in the event of a tail strike and even with it's butt dragging against the runway. I wonder if the physics of the sim creates a bouncy tail.

As Frank said, it is amazing that all this stuff works in the first place. If something goes wrong sometimes I blame the sim, and it's turns out flying really is that hard!

 

One thing that's odd is the nose coming back down. The plane is certified to be able to take off in the event of a tail strike and even with it's butt dragging against the runway. I wonder if the physics of the sim creates a bouncy tail.

 

I thought about that, then I decided that I must of hit so hard as to cause catastrophic damage and the plane was set into  a reset mode by FSX (I have collision detection turned off).

A really big "Amen" to that.

 

Between all the scenery and plane addons, yokes, pedals, etc,, multiple monitors for some, and other software flight sim addons for weather related things, flight planers, etc.,, and all the tweaks to the FSX software and all the tweaks to the OS and computer.hardware, all for the love of this grand madness, it's amazing that our rigs will boot up at all, and, when they do your can't be sure if your on the edge of the envelope for a catastophic melt down or not.

 

Addon the human factor and its your classic lose, lose scenario.

Ahhhh, perhaps, but we have so much FUN!!

 

Besides, 1/2 the fun of the sims is either tweaking our system to make it just THAT much better, tweaking the bird to make it as close to purrrrfect as we can, or changing the panel to make it juuuust right for US, not always the "real world".

Then cones the fun of flying the improved bird

Pat☺

It coukd be the FBW kicking in. It is simulated in the PMDG and prevents you from over rotating.

Yep, Been there and done that on more than one occasion.

 

IAN