[bvipilots] Re: never sneeze when you fly with Michelle
- From: Robert Cezar <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 13:08:32 -0700
Hi,
How are you making out?
Robert
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Noel Romey <nromey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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