I set out in the C152 to do a few circuits of KRNT.  Do a touch-and-go, then turn in for a full-stop landing.  Everything's working fine.  I exit the runway, tune to ground, and request taxi to parking.  As occasionally happens in MSFS, the ground controller apparently came to work stoned, and, instead of assigning me a straight line taxi to GA, has be do a full lap around the perimeter of the airfield, including two runway crossings.  A PitA, but I go along with it...only to find a minivan of some sort parked directly in my path along the taxi route south, probably between A5 and A6.  I stop and wait for awhile.  It doesn't move.  Finally, after waiting for way too long, I gradually swing over toward the edge of the taxiway and pass him on the left, with my wheels just barely on the pavement.  I don't get told I collided with a ground vehicle, so I continue.  Shortly before I reach the hold-short line for the first runway crossing (in other words, more than 1,000' after I detoured around the minivan), my aircraft suddenly tips to the left, as if I hit something large with my right gear.  I should point out that I'd been taxiing slow enough that the airspeed indicator wasn't alive, so I wasn't emulating a Ryanair pilot, and the wind is calm, so I didn't suddenly get hit with a crosswind gust.  Anyway, after that sudden jolt, everything smooths out again, and I cross the runway, taxi all the way up the other side of the runway, and cross it again, still going at the same low speed.  I'm about to turn back onto taxiway A, with my parking spot only a couple hundred feet away, when...the screen goes black.  I first think I just got bitten by a CTD bug, but no -- instead, I get a "YOU CRASHED - You damaged your landing gear" dialogue, with the only options being to restart the flight or go to the main menu.

Wha?  I clearly didn't hit anything, and was going ultra-slow.  I was right on a paved taxiway, with no other aircraft or ground vehicles in sight.  Sure, it isn't a CTD, but it's annoying as $*%& to be kept from completing an otherwise-successful flight due to something that makes no sense whatsoever.

Have other people had this happen to them?  Right now, since I didn't see any immediate cause for this incident, I can only think of two scenarios: 1) That it's a completely random bug.  2) That, somehow, I did collide with the ground vehicle that was stuck in the middle of my taxi path, that MSFS took a minute or so to register it and show it graphically (that bump just before the first runway crossing), and then another few minutes (after I've taxied the entire length of the field and crossed the runway a second time) to react with deciding there had been a crash and it needed to end my flight.  In any event, it's really infuriating.

Anyone else encountered anything like this in their own flights?

Edited August 22, 20214 yr by JDWalley

Yeah, I occasionally see stuff like that. There are some invisible holes lurking around in the sim. If you happen to roll across one, your wheel will drop into it. 

BTW, I don't think the sim registers collisions with other vehicles. That'd get pretty messy if some dude popped in on the runway right as you're on your takeoff role, after all. I just run through ground vehicles usually, because ground vehicles do stupidly unrealistic things, like driving around on runways or swerving suddenly into your plane, etc.

 

ATC has never been great on MS/P3D flight sims all the way through. MS/Asobo have managed to make it worse.

Yup, there are what appear to be some quite effective anti-tank ditches on the taxiways at LFPG, as I discovered to my dismay in the 787. 🤣

First thing I do in any flightsimulator I ever used is turn off the crash detection.