Hello everyone,

I would like to reproduce the Sully Water landing using P3D-V4 and canot find any thing on the subject.

Anyone having managed to do that? Any addon? Any trick like creating a seaport on the hudson bay? (but would a non amphibian acft waterland on a sea port? )

I can not imagine nobody worked on that?

Thank you so much in advance

Best regards

All

 

Welcome to AvSim. Here’s a good link to that incident. You’ll need an Airbus A320 as a minimum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549

I strongly recommend you take the Drzewiecki Design New York City / Airports for P3D. That will give you enough realism to reproduce it. 

Btw, this is the trajectory of the flight:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549#/media/File:Flight_1549-OptionsNotTaken.PNG

Edited May 7, 20233 yr by PavlinS

Hi guys,

In fact I just can not technically water land.

Either the aircraft bounces on the water and go around (crash détection OFF I think) or it crashes like if it were on the land (crash detection ON)

I might have to add that I am using the Prosim A320

Can you water land with your 320? (P3D V4)

Tx a lot

1 hour ago, Al340 said:

Can you water land with your 320? (P3D V4)

I’ve never tried and don’t have any A320. But even the PMDG737 would encounter the same problem. That’s the difference between a professional flight simulator and a desktop one costing $50.

Al340 -- what speed are you using to land on the water? IRL we were taught that successful water landings seem to generally made by stalling the aircraft onto the water otherwise the plane acts like a rock that is skipping across the water... 

As @PavlinS mentioned, DRZEWIECKI DESIGN New York City X is your best option. One of the scenery features is: 

A dedicated entertaining mission featuring Hudson emergency ditching,

as a mission or load flight plan.

Technically, you can edit the aircraft.cfg file to add some "float" type undercarriage in [contact_points] to simulate the buoyancy of fuselage.

But probably no one knows where and how much to put it to get it at least some kind of "simulation" feeling in P3D then...

Hello,

Thanks a lot, I will definitely try the DRZEWIECKI design (hope it is compatible with P3D-V4?). Regarding the acft buyancy, it is very interesting. Real airbus has a syst that seals the cargo bays to increase buyancy. Volume and location are known. Once could just integreate that (if not already done?).

But does an aircraft sinks in P3D (unless it is a hydroplane)? And should I understand that everything relies on the aircrafft config or some of the logic is still in P3D?

I just can wait to test it again. Will do that today and will come back to you

Tx a lot

2 hours ago, Al340 said:

I will definitely try the DRZEWIECKI design (hope it is compatible with P3D-V4?).

It is compatible, no worries, I have it and I am on v4 HF3 as well. 

You may need to add some contact points to the aircraft.cfg, all marked as floats. That way, P3D will consider your 'bus as an amphibian.

Maybe a point in the back, other in the front (just in the front of the NLG doors) and maybe one in each wingtip will do the job?

Edited May 8, 20233 yr by Luis Hernandez

Searching for "Hudson Miracle APCH" from the mentioned wiki site leads to
https://ww2.jeppesen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/us-airways-flight-1549-sully-skiles-hudson-river-miracle-approach.pdf (just VFR 😂)

Edited May 8, 20233 yr by QuaxTheSnoopie
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