Flight Experience Queenstown

[toprob]

This guy has posted his landing at Queenstown.
(Queenstown Flight Experience.)

[Ian Warren]

mm D now that is cool

[Zöltuger]

indeed, very cool

[scon]

What scenery do Flight Exp Use ???


I WANT IT

[creator2003]

its proberly just normal stuff you can download yourself freeware ,plus the mesh is proberly 20m by rbe ,but thats just a guess as they use robins stuff etc..
looks like fun ,but i notice the pilot taking him in was doing alot of stuff around the place more so than the guy flying the yoke is this the norm?
great movie ,and the sim is looking better theses days

[benwynn]

At the Flight Experience, you can do what ever you want- If you have flight sim experience, you can just ask him to do gear or flaps- Or, you can do the whole thing yourself- He had probably never flown before- He was turning the yoke on the runway to turn*Hint* So the Guy probably just helpled him alot

[creator2003]

oh yeap ,yeah really looks good with those new screens ,i read up about the new stuff they installed on windowlight.co.nz ,robin gave a good run down .
now they need a motion platform and ill go spend some money ,i dont know if id be able to land it first time without help getting use to the control levers and yoke
its really good to see we have such a flightsim following in NZ,
i remember for years i thought i was one of very little simmers in NZ then nzff popped up and the sims started coming out of nowhere ,i was like where you guys been hiding ,look a yaer later and we have wicked sims like this around ,im still waiting for the chopper sims to come out

[ooOO00OOoo]

1000, 500, 1000, 1000, 1000, 500 etc! Someone feed the plane too much alcohol! Would it be like that in real life? i.e the gpws going off like it did

[ardypilot]

Great video, I went on the sim in Auckland. Perhaps I should upload my video of landing at Whenuapai and Auckland Int?

He had probably never flown before- He was turning the yoke on the runway to turn

Actually, it says in the vid description "I've been flying the FS2004 for years now, this was pretty special."

[AlisterC]

Great to see the video, thanks!!. The first thing I do stepping into the cockpit, is ask "have you done any flying before" and from there, you can get a feel for what the customer is capable of. With the clock ticking down, you can't afford a missed approach usually, so I am 90% of the time controlling the throttles, and due to the high risk of customers (ie non flight simmers) damaging the flaps by having to reach across, I work the flaps for them as well. You guys who have been flying before don't need so much assistance from the instructor, but for complete newbies, you can't learn to fly a 737 in an hour. So, we need to help them a bit. I don't touch the yoke at any point on the flight, and with most new pilots, that's enough to keep them swamped with things to do. Something as simple as getting them to put the gear down at the same time can throw us way off course. Let alone managing yoke, pedals, flaps and throttle on final when you've never flown before. If you go to F.E, make sure you let them know you are capable. The capable ones I get in (ie real pilots and simmers) I'll often jump in the back seat and let them do everything and let friends and family in the instructor seat. Given the comments about his flying for years, I'm surprised the instructor didn't let him work the throttles.
The Queenstown scenery is the Peter Lohr one with the photoreal stuff (from Robin I think). Freeware.
The GPWS would sound like that in real life, depending on the arrival of the aircraft, and the terrain. Of course in real life, they can turn the GPWS warnings off too
I for one would love to see your video Andrew!

[Matthew]

You turn the yoke on rollout for crosswind correction, so that might be why.

or maybe not

[benwynn]

Was there really Any crosswind - I really think he was just trying to go straight..

[Jimmy]

I don't touch the yoke at any point on the flight, and with most new pilots, that's enough to keep them swamped with things to do. Something as simple as getting them to put the gear down at the same time can throw us way off course. Let alone managing yoke, pedals, flaps and throttle on final when you've never flown before. If you go to F.E, make sure you let them know you are capable. The capable ones I get in (ie real pilots and simmers) I'll often jump in the back seat and let them do everything and let friends and family in the instructor seat.

I got you to do the gear and flaps for me ae, had an FO there may as well make good use of him!

I would think real pilots an simmers would rather have the instructor there as its more realistic, you don't fly a 73 by yourself in real life do ya, personaly I think its actuly better to have an instructor cos it is more realistic.

kool video, and yes they would just hit the wounderful "inhibit" button on the GPWS, witch F.E doesn't have on their GPWS, do they

James

[AlisterC]

Umm... *blush*. We can turn the warnings off with the computer, but haven't got the button connected up to there at this time
Another thing lots of people do, is think the yoke will steer the aircraft on the ground. I have to remind almost everyone to start steering with their feet on the runway after landing. So its unlikely he had a crosswind, just not used to using a yoke would be my guess

[ooOO00OOoo]

when i do my first one i bet that i'll try to steer on the groung by twisting the yoke! I need rudder pedals

[Alex]

Or use the funny handle thing to the left of the Captains seat? (It worked at the TG FE, not sure if it works everywhere...)

Alex

[victor_alpha_charlie]

gfroung

Huh?

[ooOO00OOoo]

gfroung

Huh?

ground!!

[ZK-MAT]

Was the plane on auto approach when the pilot was frantically waving the yoke back and forwards? It didn't seem to be making much difference to the direction.

Looks very cool across those large screens .. yum