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Concrete -> Darrington - Did not quite make it :)


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In my newly painted Katana 4x I jumped in and went to the runway - announced the takeoff and WHAM! A plane landed practically on top of me and crashed up my ride. So being FSX it reset OK lets try again.

The problem was I performed the walk around checks and all seemed fine; so I took off and all was dandy in the air no problem (although I did notice my fuel cap being missing)

Landed just right and was pleased with that but then half way through the taxi my engine packed in - I had to use the tow to move it on to the grass and perform some fixing. The crash damaged my engine bad and when the flight reset it did not revert back (as the katana remembers your moves)

All is good now managed to fix it and taxi / park at Darrington. So mental note - next time I take a bump due to poor FSX AI - perform a service and maintenance check before flight hehe.

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Just wait for this guy to land...

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All good!

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Away we go

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No fuel cap!!!!!!

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Darrington here we come

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Some construction going on

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I can see the runway

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Line-up to land

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Going in

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Top banana but better hurry else this guy is going to catch me :)

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Taxi all good so far...

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Then BAM! Engine failure

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Lets fix this off the taxiway

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I think it was just due to the fact I had a crash before and it remembered the damage, the oil was fine and everything else was good apart from the engine!

Superb plane wud recommend it! Only negative is it takes ages to fix if broken and that's precious flying time in my eyes! Goin out in it again today I think!

I modified mine to have autopilot so I can take in scenery :) Cheating I know but hey ho!

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Oh man I recently flew a Twin Otter into the same airfield after ducking through a nasty snow storm to the northeast (coming in from Castlegar CYCG I think). When the wind changed coming down the valley to the north I had to do the approach from the opposite end you did and it took me two go-rounds after underestimating the squeeze on the right side on final.

Great shots...I really like that valley area in Orbx.

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Nice shots and trip, Jim. So, Katana with an autopilot, hehe... :rofl: cool idea. I had a problem like that last year on a Katana (real) which I flew. After airborne around 00:30 h, no further chance to continue the flight and landed again for repair and maintenance. An oil leak. So, have "all the time" a look at oil-temp.-press and cylinder head temperature . :thum: Cheers.

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Very nice shots Jim, thats one heck of a good view from the cockpit on that plane :thum: .

and bit of engine damage every now and again makes the sim feel a bit more relistic IMO ;)

Cheer's...Graham...

You need to get yourself one of these Graham, it's right up your street - great little aircraft, superb for buzzing around all that new Orbx scenery you have just bought.

On topic great shots Jim, it's a nice little trip Concrete to Darrington.

Good job mate :thumbup:

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probably did but I didnt look - I was too busy fuming at the damn thing :)

it doesn´t matter - only simulated :D

It wasn't the fact it broke down it was the fixing time that done my head in really! Still all part of the fun!

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