[bvipilots] never sneeze when you fly with Michelle
- From: Noel Romey <nromey@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 11:04:37 -0400
Hi guys,
I was flying this morning from cyyc o cyxj. About 180 miles from the
airport, I sneezed into the microphone. It was not muted
unfortunately. MS Speech Recognition took my sneeze as a keypress.
two things happened in succession. First, I should say, these
keypresses were on the FSX side, not the IYP Michelle side of things.
First, the autopilot got turned off and second, my engine mixture was
set to lean. I dropped from 1000 to nothing in about 10 seconds.
Didn't know what happened because I didn't know what I pressed, so I
thought fist to set engine mixture to rich, well I said lean, so I
ultimately pulled back up to about 4000 feet, then fell back. In
essence, FSX was confused. Finally got things dialed back in, and got
up to 10300 feet and climbing, aTC yelling at me that I was above my
altitude. That's when I found that autopilot got turned off. I would
have started over because in real life, I would have been exploded
into bits on the middle of frontier Canada, but I flew the flight last
night and on approach, lost all FSX sound (nothing I could do to get
it back either), so II just continued flying. I've got FSX set to not
allow for crashes for some reason apparently under realism (I had not
idea that could be set). Luckily for me, I'm save in Fort St. John.
Another note, upon landing, I got to 100 feet and the wind blew me up
so I was a few feet from the ground but not landed and I didn't hear a
bump or crash sound. So I pulled up (execute go around didn't work
for some reason) flew a while and then prepared to land at the runway.
Autopilot was on again again so I turned it off, did approach
checklist again, and was able to land. I think that crosswinds caused
problems for me, so when I came back the second time, they weren't as
significant so Michelle was able to help.
This is going to be a challenging trip.
Noel
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