I think I've asked this before, but I'll just state this and see what you all think.  If, and most times, I will be using ATC, should I wait until I'm on the glidepath before telling Mr. Smith that I'm landing as long as I'm above the 500' AGL which seems to be the all critical numbers?

Now this all being said, I'm fresh out of Boeing flight school with the B737.  Barely wet behind the ears, and even though I've landed the 737 of which I thought was pretty good, obviously I stink according to Mr. Smith.  I will not let this little pencil pushing little turd push me around much longer.  I will make better landings soon, or my company may go bankrupt with lawsuits....

So, SL, would you are wanting to here what Mr. Smith is saying on our approaches and landings?

WWT-Joe

 

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I´m a little wasted. Fell into this small Jazzclub, where the beer was as good as the Jazz. Even took a dance with Ms.Aviatrix! Boy the woman can move!

Dang Ole, my favorite music....Smooth Jazz! 

See you later...[/quote]

 

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LEG 2 – New Orleans to Atlanta!

SL once told me: It´s the little things. And you know what? He is right. It´s the little things, that ruin a perfectly good flight, and a potential perfectly good landing.

So I was to fly from New Orleans to Atlanta. I refuelled, and taxied to the runway, guided by ATC and progressive taxi. (I cannot to the death of me find out how to taxi using taxiway alpha, lima, tango and bla. bla. so I use progressive taxi). I taxied with a heading of 280 degrees and had a 24 knots wind at 80 degrees. Ms.A. coulden´t decide if we had a tailwind and should taxi with the elevator down, or if we had a crosswind and should taxi with the right aileron up, so she kept telling me both, and I tried to comply while still taxiing the right way, and not too fast.

Finally at the runway. I turned and made another mistake. I told Ms.A. that we were about to take off, BEFORE I was aligned with the centreline. Then I pressed my brake just a little to swing the plane around for perfect alignment with the centreline. Ms.A. hissed: “Don´t brake during takeoff unless it´s an emergency”. There went another chunk of my points.

I floored it and up we went. I was so eager to NOT have Ms.A. tell me to rotate, that I rotated a little to early, Went up, and touched down again, ever so slightly. Guess what Ms.A. said! Right said Fred. “Lets rotate”. I could have tossed her out the window at that point, had it been open. Wish it had been a LearJet 45 convertible, with an ejector seat, then puff! but no no.  And once again, it was my own fault! So I knew that it was uphill from here, and I had barely started.

But it´s a good plane. We went up to 18k feet, and started the long straight flight towards Atlanta. I set up the ILS to runway 8R, set the OBS to 92 (92 degrees for a runway 8! That puzzled me, but it seems that Atlanta has 4 runways all pointing east-west, so they have runway 9R and 9L, and then the other two had to be called something else, and it became 8R and 8L). I learned something new again. Great. I trimmed my plane for straight and level flight, but that´s not easy when the wind keeps tossing you around, and besides the LearJet is not as easy to trim as the Cessna 172, but it´s faster, much faster.

I set myself a waypoint directly to the west of my runway, so I had something to align to, when getting there. I should have made the waypoint much further to the west, because when I had made the turn and faced east, I had drifted to the north, and had not much time to align myself with the runway, while setting my spoiler, tell Ms.A. that I intended to land, lower gear, set flaps (after having checked that my speed was ok for gear and flaps) and at the same time descent, while the plane lost speed due to the spoilers, and then trying to keep the plane up as it descended a little too fast. I had to throttle up and pitch up, and lost eye contact with the ground for a second. I flapped up to 40 degrees, but unfortunately I had throttled up and was now at 152 knots. Too fast for that flapsetting – retract them, said Ms.A. Two knots too fast. *sigh*

Well, down we came. But I felt that the landing was too hard, and I had serious problems taxiing straight down the runway, I always struggle at that. Ms.A. had had it. “Oh-no”, she said “you landed to hard – no points for that landing” and then she babbled on about all the things I didn´t do right. The good thing is that I still have 120 landing to improve on.

Taxiing in cross-tail-cross-tail-cross-tail wind. Make up your mind  Ready to take off. Don´t brake during takeoff....

Floor the throttle.                                                                           Hi-ho and away we go!

Climbing to 18.000 feet.                                                                 A nice day to cruise.

As usual, Clouds building when I close in on the airport                   What happend to the Earth?

Ah, there is the runway. now... gear, flaps, descend, throttle....        Down and out, and kicked in the groin by the instructor! *sigh*

Stats from Ms.A. Keywords: It´s the little things!

Landing Score:0,00 (Ugly)

Landing was successful in the following areas:

• Good landing speed - not too fast.
• Wings were level.
• Glideslope held until flare.
• Good pitch control after touchdown.
• Good pitch at landing.
• With flaps - good job.
• With spoilers armed.
• Good controlled final descent to touchdown.

Landing included the following problems:

• Poor glideslope on ILS approach - you can do better.
• Poor alignment with runway on ILS approach - line up and stay there.
• Too hard - may have damaged your landing gear.
• Nowhere near the centre line - get lined up and keep it that way.
• Touch down not aligned with the runway - let's point down the runway.
• Throttle(s) forward - should be idle.
• Poor steering after landing - stay on the centre line.

Definite room for improvement...


Flight Score:90,24

Flight commended in the following areas:

• Smooth turns.
• Nice banking.
• Gear deployment at safe speed.
• Smooth pitch control.
• Flown within aircraft's maximum speed limit.
• Gentle taxi turns.
• Good take off steering.
• Appropriate position of flaps during taxi.
• Smooth braking during taxi.
• Smooth climb during takeoff.
• Wings level near ground.
• Well coordinated turns.
• No stalls.
• No flying dangerously close to stall speed.
• Flaps down on time.
• Approach speed not too fast.
• Low altitude speeds not too fast.
• Good clearance of obstacles.

Flight included the following problems:

• Exceeding flap speeds - your flaps may be damaged: have them checked.
• Sickening G forces - your passengers feel rather unwell.
• Braking during takeoff - watch those feet.
• Late rotation - when Vr is reached - take off.
• Poor elevator control during taxi in wind - danger of flipping.
• Poor aileron control during taxi in wind - danger of flipping.
• Poor attention to taxi speed - dangerous to yourself and others.
• Rapid descent - dangerous and uncomfortable.
• Nose held too high - spilt drinks and worried expressions.
• Nose held too low - we're not in combat.
  

Definite room for improvement...

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Attention all readers of this: Just a brief note!

I would like to know if anybody is reading this stuff! It seems an awful waste of time and space if it is only done for the pleasure of Joe, SL (He HAS to see it all, :hehe )and myself.

So please! if you read this, please make a reply, nothing special, just something like "I was here"

Thank you.

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Regards
Ole Andreasen, Denmark

Well you know I'm reading all of these.  But you are right, it might be a huge waste of time with big write-ups.  I wasn't planning as much writeups, but some funny happenings, and some misfortunes with Mr. Smith and Company.  Great stuff with your writeups.  I'm having the same crap happen to me.  One little thing, I take my mind of what I'm doing, and there's a crappy score.  Most of the time, it's when I'm trying to capture a good picture.

Not sure if you've seen this sight, but there's a pretty good site for that might help you with how they come up with all the taxiing stuff.  There's probably more than one site for this, but if you try the following:  www.airnav.com

Then click on airports tab, then put in your airport (ie. KATL).
Then over on the right side down a bit, if the airport has a printable airport diagram, you can print it off and try to follow the ATC and the map.  Pretty good practice.  It's got a whole lot more good stuff than just this, but give it a try for the US routes.
I'm not sure but I think this is only good for the US airports....I'm trying to find something similar to this for Europe, etc....

And by the way, ATL now has 5 parallel runways although I'm not sure if FSX has it...although I wasn't paying much attention because I was coming in on 26R yesterday.

Joe

 

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"If we get you to your destination in one piece, it's a miracle"

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I apologize deeply for putting you in a situation, where you have to spend unnecessary time to find the important parts, where an answer from you could be beneficial to others.

You are right - as always! If I need to put a question to you, I will make an appropriate thread to do so!

I see that you found - and answered our mistake about if we could upload scores under more that one name, and sadly, we cannot

I asked around, a few posts above this one, for viewers of our WWT-thread, and now three days later, I haven´t had one single answer, so I have decided to cut back on the flight-stories and pasting of screenshots. It will be done sundays, for the weeks flights, and with significantly fewer Screens. 

This way I can concentrate more on the actual flying, and save time and space as well!

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