[bvipilots] Re: never sneeze when you fly with Michelle
- From: Noel Romey <nromey@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 09:32:03 -0400
I'm making out. Have found a few cosmetic if you will bugs which I will
compile and send privately. When I ask to check weather for a location the
conditions seem to be ok but Zulu Time doesn't update much. Does the new
service for metar not update often or is there some other problem?
Thanks
Ner
On Sep 8, 2013, at 4:08 PM, Robert Cezar <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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