landing gear failure

[graaf]

What should i do if i have landing gear failure? Belly landing on land or on water, or smothing else. What vertical speed and what
airspeed do i have to have to cause as few victims as possible? Flaps full up or full down?

[Joshuah A. Wetzel]

Belly landing on land or on water, or smothing else.

You never want to land on water! Never do that! You always want to continue with your flight as long as possible and land on a runway.

What vertical speed and what airspeed do i have to have to cause as few victims as possible?

Just try to get a VTD below -150 ft/m. The speed will vary between different aircraft.

Flaps full up or full down?

The flaps will depend on what your speed is and what aircraft you are flying.

[Allard]

I agree, don't land on water. Water is not as soft as it appears, and those that survive the impact may possibly drown. Also, try to make it to a
runway because not only is it a straight, flat and onobstructed piece of land, there is also help nearby in the form of fireman and medical units.
Obviously you want the lowest vertical speed possible, but it's vital also to keep the forward speed low, so you have to use flaps. I'm not sure about
flaring, but I think it is preferable to touch the ground with the entire belly, and flare too much since that will make the tail impact the ground
too hard which might break the aircraft.

Normally, you want to land as light as possible so dump most of the fuel if you can. You can't dump the passengers though because they will get
rather upset by this.

Allard.

[hyderpotter]

But the point of having life jacket.

[opherben]

Follow a logical approach for real or simulated flight, example:
* Determine which landing gear, main or nose and decide where to land. For nose you chose a long runway with headwind as strong as
possible to reduce ground speed to minimum at nose lowering. For main choose strong wind from that side, to keep that wing raised as
long as possible on rollout.
* Configure the aircraft: get rid of fuel to a minimum, at least in the affected wing to make it lighter and reduce fire hazard. Set up a
favorable longitudinal (aft)/ lateral center of gravity.
* Coordinate intentions and have a runway set up with foam, net or whatever can be made available, emergency aid, and brief the crew.
* Determine the cause of the problem and the ability to extend the gear using emergency gear extension systems and methods. Do not
recycle damaged gear, just extend it once when fuel remains for about 30-45 minutes to solve extension problems.

[Joshuah A. Wetzel]

Just to contribute another piece of information to this thread, I don't think FSPassengers will count an emergency water landing a landing,
but instead a crash. I am not 100% positive, though. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[McCaffr3y]

i had to belly land it once, no flaps and gear. they both failed at the same time >.< but i got an excellent score.

[hyderpotter]

But will landing on water with in Flight 2004 be ok. As when your plane goes on the water and it does not sink.



Post Edited ( 10-03-06 05:41 )

[HB-100]

McCaffr3y wrote:
i had to belly land it once, no flaps and gear. they both failed at the same time &amp;gt.&amp;lt but i got an excellent score.

I got an 'excellet' bill!

@hyderpotter
My aircrafts always sunk in the flightsimulator. But I didnt land on water since a long time and I dont know if FSP/2004 will lett it swim.