Weird Sim-isms

[Chunk]

S-3 OFT @ VS-41

Saw a 95,000 ton aircraft carrier spinning like a top while sitting vertically on it's bow, all while MiGs did gun runs.

 

[VNugget]

You said no PC sims... but you still gotta love maxing out the wind down runway hdg (with no turbulence) in X-plane and hovering like a helicopeter

 

[Snakum]

I had no idea that Level C/D sim developers were into 'Easter Eggs'. I always figured that was reserved for us Developer weenies who wrote things like on-line auction applications and medical office management software.

Minh

 

[tarp]

Dornier 328 Jet sim

1.) The "glass mountain" as was mentioned above. The real scenario for us is a GPWS demo where we take off from a tough airport like Aspen, CO. The sim guy can put a glass mountain in your path and cause the GPWS to go off. Of course, if you put the glass mountain (elevation 10,000Ft) right off the end of RWY04 at LGA or between Dulles and Richmond it can cause some fun. I especially like the Dornier graphics of a dripping red screen right after you hit these things.

2.) Fire trucks from everywhere. There we were on fire, single engine and I can't remember how many other systems were broken - but we nevertheless got the airplane to the ground for a safe landing at Kennedy. The instructor wanted to force us into a ground evac situation - suddenly there are fire trucks coming at us from all directions - some right in our path on the runway. Needless to say, a great amount of braking action, swerving and hitting about 2 of the rescue trucks caused the need for a ground evac and some time to recover from the laughing in the sim.

3.) We caught 3 TCAS warnings in about 30 seconds. (Must have been the caffeine!) The frustrated instructor wanted us to get in an RA situation. Unfortunately the 747 was put a little too close with a little too much speed. We got the RA, but the pointer was through the roof. That nice red screen again from one heck of a midair.

4.) When we first got the 328 Sims, the Tandy 8088 processor that ran the thing was just a bit overloaded. We would get (frustrating) freeze ups and the techs would have to come in and reset the thing (CTL-ALT-DEL). However the mid-air freezes were spectacular. One was on short final at Kennedy and there we were suspended in mid-air about 30 feet from touchdown on 31L. Very cool looking. Mountain Dew break time!

 

[T-Gates]

1900D at FSI DAB:
> Buzzed a couple in a rowboat somewhere near NYC waving thier hands for help.

1900D in Greeley, CO:
>Doing a missed from RSW we got 2 GPWS warnings and hit a mountain at about 1500 feet.......in Florida
>Getting the "Blue Screen of Death" and having to turn the motion off and hit CTRL-ALT-DEL.
>Break out at mins while doing the VOR 13L at JFK and starting the turn to final only to have the runway dissapear and all the navaids flag.
>Finding instructor playing Windows Solitaire while we were holding over Miami running the QRH.

--03M

 

[Northern Lights]

Reverse Sensing while inverted?

When I went to ATP we had an AST 300 without the visuals, it was supposed to simulate Seminoles, but I swear the thing outperformed most Lears. I once flew PHX V95 GBN V66 BARET BARET4 SAN inverted on one engine. Incidentally, will an HSI reverse sense while inverted? It did in the sim, and we had quite a debate over it.

I recall doing an interted ILS in an old Frasca 242, and like jergar I'm trying to remember if it reversed sensed...

Seems like the glideslope would. If you were upside down, and low, and pulled up you'd be headed for disaster!

 

[Kaman]

Hello,
I was flying the SH-3H simulator at NAS North Island and while landing at "Anytown U.S.A." I saw a giant bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken on the roof of a building off the end of the runway.

Regards,

ex-Navy Rotorhead

 

[727Mania]

In a King Air 200 Simulator. Hold on the brakes, pull the parking brake, apply full power and the airplane lifts off like a helicoptor. Then at about 50 feet, Power to Idle, then Boom. You Crash back to earth.

 

[328dude]

I think all motion simulators will do that 727. I'm not sure how they do it, I think it has something toi do with motion off and freeze position, but the DOrk does it too.

 

[Birdstrike]

My personal favorite because I busted a phase check on this one; ILS into Troy, AL. Plate said tower closed after 2300, use alt minimums. I failed to note that our sim T/O time was 0130. I flew a great ILS to normal minimums...and busted the ride. DOH!

 

[Typhoon1244]

Plate said tower closed after 2300, use alt minimums. I failed to note that our sim T/O time was 0130. I flew a great ILS to normal minimums...and busted the ride.

Oh now that's nit-picky!

(The I.P. should have included the time of day in the brief, I think...)

 

[flybynightly]

Flight Safety - ICT, Lear 35 sim. The instructor hopped in the seat and said watch this.... He set the parking brake gave it full throttle and proceded to hover straight up to 500 feet without moving forward an inch!

 

[avbug]

While flying the ILS back course, you have two choices to get correct sensing. In the HSI it doesn't matter; always set the front course. However, on a round dial omni head, flying the back course inverted will produce normal sensing. Think about it.

At FSI in the Sabre, before we ever got to any other work, we were told that everyone who goes through wants to fly through the St. Louis arch. We did a vertical climb in the jet to about 500' (airspeed and feel, but no forward motion), and then we were allowed to fly forward and through the arch. Then turn and come back. Whoopee...not.

 

[100LL... Again!]

Birdstrike-

The check airman that busted you seriously needs a girlfriend.

I'll bet he isn't able to live up to that kind of scrutiny himself.

The position, unfortunately, often seems to attract those who don't really have the personality for it. Guess they have something to prove. Losers.

 

[RedheadCFI]

What I like to do to intsrument students when they're doing real good is have them shoot an ILS and then crank the winds up to a speed that exceeds approach speed. After they fly "back through" the FAF and the markers sound I usually ask them where they are on the approach and get a look of mystery. It is cruel but always a good laugh. We use the Frasca 142 sim w/ Gist instructor interface, the AST hawk 300 works too, not sure about others.

 

[JBcrjca]

The CRJ sims at SLC have a three or four-masted clipper ship programmed in...so you can be taxiing out for takeoff and watch a ship slide down the glideslope and make a nice landing. It can also be used as a target for an RA during TCAS demos... it's easy to spot with those huge sails hanging in the breeze.

I've also looked back at the instructor during a checkride and have seen them playing various computer games, reading the newspaper, making cell phone calls, etc. It makes me a bit more relaxed, since I figure I'm doing a good enough job for them not to be watching like a hawk.

Also, who's flown a sim at LAX and NOT flown through the Spider inverted? Standard sim shenanigans, I guess.

 

[Snoopy58]

Most C-130's don't use JATO any more (just the arctic/antarctic birds, & the Blue Angels' Fat Albert), but it is still hooked up in some of the simulators. So there he was (friend of a friend, you know), two engines out, utility hydraulics gone, flaps stuck at something other than up, gear stuck down, out of altitude & airspeed & ideas all at about the same time and still a couple miles to go to get to the runway...

... and the copilot remembers what somebody told him about JATO being hooked up. Guarded switch up arms the system, green light comes on (gee, never seen THAT light up in the real airplane!), push the button... WHOOOSH! (just like the Impala!)

I've heard it worked, once!