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kellwolf · May 1st, 2008, 10:32

Sim 3 was right out of the Marquis de Sade's playbook. Sadly, I found this as the sim I had the most fun in so far, though.

Started off in MSP with heavy thunderstorms all around and lightning everywhere. Honestly, in the real world, my ass wouldn't have left the gate. Thinking it might be some trick, I said this. Instructor said "Sorry, sim world says ya gotta go." Ah well.

So, lined up on the runway, took a look with the radar and asked for an immediate left turn after takeoff to avoid the level 5 right in front of us. Approved. Windshear on takeoff, so we aborted the takeoff. Try again. Climbing through about 400 ft, we got a windshear warning and carried out that procedure.....right into severe turbulence.

AP kicked itself off, and I'm hand flying in this crap. The airplane's yelling "bank angle" about every 30 seconds, so I request a block altitude along with a possible report of ANYTHING smoother. Gives us a block from 4000-10000 and the smooth rides are at FL210. Great. About this time the radar fails. Well, that's not too good, so we declare an emergency, tell 'em we want to go back to MSP and we'll need a heads up on the heavy stuff. So we start heading back. Get a descent to 4000 and it magically smooths out.

Start getting vectored for the ILS 30R, and WHAM! wake turbulence from a 757 knocks us sideways. Recovered from that and continued what we were doing. Sim instructor has me disconnect the AP during the approach. Break out about 500 AGL, and we get a windshear warning on short final, so we do the go around and follow those procedures.

Reposition to FL350.....and both engines start spooling down. Maintain .7M (or 240 kts below FL340) and run the QRH for a dual engine flame out while turning towards MSP. Get a windmilling re-light on one and do a crossbleed re-light on the other. Crisis averted.

Vectors for the LOC 30R to a normal landing. Reposition on the runway, climb out.....DING "FLAPS FAIL." Okay. Run the QRH for a flaps fail, climb checklist, call dispatch and MX see what they want to do.....and we're coming back to MSP. Call the FA, tell her why we're doing a 180 and let the passengers know. Get setup for a visual to 30L (second longest runway since 22 was closed). Go to back it up with an ILS.....oh, glideslopes out of service. No problem. They've got PAPIs. Huh? THOSE are out, too? Well, we can.....crap FMS just failed. Okay, looks like this is gonna be done the old fashioned way. Sad thing is, if I hadn't flared a BIT too much, I woulda nailed the 1000 ft markers.

Stopped, taxiied to the gate, ran the shutdown and terminating checklists and called it a night.

Off for two days, and sim four (mountain flying, yay!) is on Saturday.

May 1st, 2008, 10:32	#80
kellwolf Old Skool Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Memphis, TN Posts: 12,802	Re: Kellwolf's Upgrade Updates Sim 3 was right out of the Marquis de Sade's playbook. Sadly, I found this as the sim I had the most fun in so far, though. Started off in MSP with heavy thunderstorms all around and lightning everywhere. Honestly, in the real world, my ass wouldn't have left the gate. Thinking it might be some trick, I said this. Instructor said "Sorry, sim world says ya gotta go." Ah well. So, lined up on the runway, took a look with the radar and asked for an immediate left turn after takeoff to avoid the level 5 right in front of us. Approved. Windshear on takeoff, so we aborted the takeoff. Try again. Climbing through about 400 ft, we got a windshear warning and carried out that procedure.....right into severe turbulence. AP kicked itself off, and I'm hand flying in this crap. The airplane's yelling "bank angle" about every 30 seconds, so I request a block altitude along with a possible report of ANYTHING smoother. Gives us a block from 4000-10000 and the smooth rides are at FL210. Great. About this time the radar fails. Well, that's not too good, so we declare an emergency, tell 'em we want to go back to MSP and we'll need a heads up on the heavy stuff. So we start heading back. Get a descent to 4000 and it magically smooths out. Start getting vectored for the ILS 30R, and WHAM! wake turbulence from a 757 knocks us sideways. Recovered from that and continued what we were doing. Sim instructor has me disconnect the AP during the approach. Break out about 500 AGL, and we get a windshear warning on short final, so we do the go around and follow those procedures. Reposition to FL350.....and both engines start spooling down. Maintain .7M (or 240 kts below FL340) and run the QRH for a dual engine flame out while turning towards MSP. Get a windmilling re-light on one and do a crossbleed re-light on the other. Crisis averted. Vectors for the LOC 30R to a normal landing. Reposition on the runway, climb out.....DING "FLAPS FAIL." Okay. Run the QRH for a flaps fail, climb checklist, call dispatch and MX see what they want to do.....and we're coming back to MSP. Call the FA, tell her why we're doing a 180 and let the passengers know. Get setup for a visual to 30L (second longest runway since 22 was closed). Go to back it up with an ILS.....oh, glideslopes out of service. No problem. They've got PAPIs. Huh? THOSE are out, too? Well, we can.....crap FMS just failed. Okay, looks like this is gonna be done the old fashioned way. Sad thing is, if I hadn't flared a BIT too much, I woulda nailed the 1000 ft markers. Stopped, taxiied to the gate, ran the shutdown and terminating checklists and called it a night. Off for two days, and sim four (mountain flying, yay!) is on Saturday. __________________ "I'm The Doctor, by the way. Run for your life!"