Scary Flight

[morten17041989]

I was on my way from Bergen (Norway) to Manchester(England) in an Embraer 145. When I was half way over the ocean, (The North Sea
I think) , something scary happens;
The airspeed indicator shows for example 290 IAS; but suddenly it jumps to 220 IAS, and then after a while up to 310 IAS..! Anyone
know why? And the aircraft went sideways,( Probably because of wind? or ..?)
However I got the plane down safely, but the speed thing was not mentioned in the flight report.

Also got a brake failure during landing..nice however, got a few wxtra points..!

[m_estrugo]

I remember I had something similar a few days ago while I took a Cessna from Montevideo to Buenos Aires. The weather was cloudy and unstable, and the
thing was shaking like an old washing machine, when suddenly, -whooop- my plane got almost sideways and -1000 feet- above the altitude I was flying
three seconds ago, and my speed went from 98IAS to 120IAS. Now that's one of the reasons as of why many pilots decide NOT to fly when weather is bad.

The sideways attitude is typical of strong crosswind. If you find a strong side wind, either the pilot or the autopilot have to compensate that
lateral displacement by moving the nose a little -or a lot- towards the wind. The stronger the crosswind, the more you have to move your nose to
compensate it.

[jetBlue220]

Probably because FS's weather causes the winds to change rapidly (when you pass from an area with one weather station to another), which then causes
the ridiculous jumps in airspeed.

[jetdude43]

jetBlue220 wrote:
Probably because FS's weather causes the winds to change rapidly (when you pass from an area with one weather station to another),
which then causes
the ridiculous jumps in airspeed.

how do you set the stations?

[jetBlue220]

Well, if you choose Static Weather, or weather that is updated every 15 minutes... Here's a basic example:

The weather station for the area around JFK airport reports to FS as having winds of 070 at 10 knots. You're flying to the west through that area,
and when you get to the next station, (let's say it's that for EWR,) the winds are at 325 at 25 knots. An abrupt change occurs when you switch from
one area to the other; having the winds change directions and speed very rapidly. What happens is a drop or increase in your airspeed, sometimes
causing overspeed penalties..

I got ActiveSky to prevent these problems, and it's worked perfectly.

[Full_Throttle0]

anybody ever fly a cessna in a 70 knot wind in fs?

Its so fun, if your flying into the wind and pull back on the stick the planes flys backwards. really fun to land just disable crashes and
autogen. no flaps either

[runibl]

Yeah, i tried that once a while back. I put alot of wind against takeoff direction, and took off backwards with the cessna.

[Cydon Prax]

As I hear there is a rl headwind limit the 172 can take.

the more the winds, the less the flaps you use too :p. Has anyone ever done the wind thing with a 744?

[Full_Throttle0]

i did it in 777 pretty cool you retract landing gear like 5 feet above the ground

[Valoran]

I was in a light twin south of Anchroage going due west against a 57 knot headwind and lost an engine. GPS said my gound speed was
only 15 knots in level flight. I decided to turn around and land where I took off. Thought taking 12 hours to go less than 1000 miles was
not the way I'd like to spend a saturday.

[greendotspeed]

The jumping of the ASI might be because ypu didnt turn on pitot heat