Hi folks!

 

This time storm chasing brought me "the perfect" microburst scenario!  (In sense of simulation)

Location, Date, Time: EDDG, 2014-07-28, 18:37 UTC (ASN historical weather!)

 

During the approach into EDDG ILS25 the PWS warning depicted a windshear area exactly on short final and overhead the arrival field.

Instead of starting the appropriate "escape maneuver" I intentionally continued the approach with "indifferent" actions: actually I only kept course, maintained thrust (67% static N1) and tried "not to hit the ground" via joke inputs.

Here is the result...

(Remark: please excuse the relatively low resolution of the screenshots. They were made while flying in Nvidia-3D-Vision2-mode 1280x720 and in addition they seem to be resized to 1024x576 through photobucket access...)

 

18:37:13 3NM out, ILS APP in full manual flight,  PWS alert occurs

 

18:37:40 1NM out, plane in thermal updraft resulting in reduced ROD and increased IAS

 

18:37:52 one dot above G/S (unstable at 110ft AGL)= GA to be called out

 

18:37:54 microburst HEAD WIND portion +38 kts, IAS jumps to 190kts

 

18:37:59 the plane initiates a climb due to high IAS

 

18:38:02 microburst DOWN BURST portion makes the plane descend with 1300ft/min at 100 ft AGL

 

18:38:04 ROD (VSI) -1800 ft/min, 32ft AGL

 

18:38:05 "a second" before main gear touch down the VSI (high latency) shows -1350 ft/min

 

18:38:06 main gear touch down with VSI showing -800 ft/min

 

18:38:07 plane "bounces back" into the air

 

18:38:09 plane starts a climb

 

18:38:12 plane enters the microburst TAIL WIND portion at 18ft AGL (IAS drops by 27 kts into crosswind wind)

 

18:38:13 IAS drops further to 134kts into tail wind which triggers the "low airspeed warning" (EICAS) at 10ft AGL

 

18:38:14 with IAS 122 kts and VSI -800ft/min the plane hits the ground (tail first). EICAS message "tail strike" and FSX detects a crash and stops the simulation...

 

Next time I will try again the escape maneuver - like everyone is supposed to do - described here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxXwqAm1a-Y

 

For those who want to see more screenshots (33 instead of 14) at a higher resolution (1280x720 instead of 1024x576) please use the dropbox link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/03rqi9zxyq18k7b/AAA153PxIEsfwejtPGhl3aFOa?dl=0

 

 

So that's all folks.  Always happy landings! B)

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for sharing

Impressive...ASN is such a game changer for flight sim.

Nice write up with visuals Claus

Nice. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice read. Some of my most challenging approaches have been with ASN.

Yes it definately works. I was flying to St Lucia the other day from Trinidad and Tobago and was warned about thunderstorms and windshear around St Lucia. Sure enough the weather was pea soup with plenty of lightning and turbulence. 4 miles out on the VOR RWY 10 approach, i had "monitor radar" aural alert but then went silent. it looks like the windshear was slightly offset to the runway which meant continuing to a safe touchdown was possible after seeing a break in the clouds.

Claus,

 

I have viewed this video before, but thanks to your reminder, I have viewed it again, and shall do again in the future.

 

We are so lucky to have all this wonderful software available to us.

 

Thanks for sharing,

 

Regards, Richard

Hi Folks!

 

Thanks for all your positive response! :rolleyes:

 

FYI:

Today I have opened a YouTube channel (vr-pilot) on which I uploaded a slideshow version of the above mentioned EDDG microburst event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIwKZq-SxaI

 

As a complement to that I have uploaded "my" KJKA microburst event from earlier this year. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtIazfmk_F8

 

 

Probably I will make some "real motion video" recording of a further storm chasing session (via Elgato Game Recorder) this weekend*. It is a nice feature to also hear the chain of events (wind drifts, thrust excursions, cockpit alerts etc.).

 

I will try to make it a 3D YouTube video upload (side-by-side or red-cyan-anaglyph) in order to give you the choice of experiencing the 3D view in the VC of the PMDG T7. B)

 

 

*) if not this weekend this is for sure on top of my list :ph34r:

 

 

Probably I will make some "real motion video" recording of a further storm chasing session ... this weekend*

*) if not this weekend this is for sure on top of my list :ph34r:

 

 

Hi folks!

Today I had no luck with storm chasing. I had just the yellow "predictive windshear alert" three times on my NDs and they all ceased shortly after the aural alert "monitor radar display"...

So nothing really spectacular.

I will try again video recordings over the next days, so perhaps a real sensational windshear + microburst encounter might be the result.

 

Always happy landings,

 

Claus

 

In the meantime here another video on topic (which you know probably already). This incident is reported to be a windshear on short final:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHEG6b91dG8

Hi Folks,

 

no luck so far with the microbursts, but storm chasing nevertheless makes a lot of fun.

Here are two little videos I made today while looking for some WXR/PWS-action:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbrREfl157A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCS1lFdfWAA

 

As I said: just for fun and not ment to be a guide for the proper operation of the A/C. Don't look for perfection; you won't find much of it...  B)

 

Hi there!
 
Last Sunday night I was again on storm hunting in order to make my announced video of encountering windshears with microburst using WXR PWS.
The flight session originally included a "nice" windshear encounter but unfortunately the recording stopped earlier without being noticed by me.  :blink:
 
So the result is just rainy and turbulent storm chasing but with some very nice cloud surfing. So the video might be nevertheless interesting for people wondering what ASN can do for FSX.
 
(As always: just for fun and not ment to be a guide for the proper operation of the A/C. Don't look for perfection; you won't find much of it...  B)  )
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB6n-s6Npjs

 

Edit: forgot to mention that this is a flight from EDGS to EDDG on June 30th 2014, 18:15Z, ASN historical weather

Edited December 8, 201411 yr by vr-pilot

Hi folks!

 

I did a Google search yesterday for other reasons on PMDG T7 SPs and the last post of this thread here came as the third result... I noticed an error in the date I mentioned for a "spectacular weather scenario". :blink:

So before "the world" gets crazy because of wrong data, here the correct versions...

 

European weather scenario for testing WXR and PWS:

Location, Date, Time: EDDG (Muenster/Osnabrueck), 2014-07-28, 18:15 UTC, early dusk (ASN historical weather!)

 

US weather scenario for testing WXR and PWS:

Location, Date, Time: KNPA (Pensacola, Florida), 2014-04-30, 11:10 UTC, early dawn (ASN historical weather!)

 

A lot of storm cells around in both scenarios...  

Have fun and enjoy it, like I always do when there is not so much time. B)