Cancel Destination on an Emergency?

[HB-100]

Have a little problem and can't retract the gear (FSPassanger generated fault)
(great action!!! Moore!)

I decide to fly half the way, I believe I have loaded enough feul to be able to do that.

I registered a new FLP with FS.

The question I have is what to do with FSPassanger?

I know declaering an Emergency..but that has time till closer to the destination.

I saw in the FSPassanger Menu that there is an option to cancel destination.

1) So can I cancel the destination and set the new one and then declare the emergency?
2) Or declare an Emergence cancel the destination set a new one?
3) or declare an emergency and cancel the destination and dont set an new one (I not even know if it is possible to set a new one)
4) or cancel destination and declare an emergency
5) or just declare an emergency

I know 5 works..but leaves a comment in the briefing with no penalty. So can this be avoided with one of the other 4 ?

what to do? ..have about 40 ' time.

[HB-100]

consumes too much and I can not rich the altitude to safe feul
so I land on another airport 20' left.

no one an idea?

[Drew]

number 5

Declaring the emergency will cancel destination as it will assume your not going to your original dest

using 1 of the other 4 (cancel dest) will give you a penelty



Post Edited ( 09-15-06 20:38 )

[crowebird]

Drew wrote:
using 1 of the other 4 (cancel dest) will give you a penelty

I thought if you canceld dest you got bouns points becuase it sees it as good pilot choice concidering weather at location be bad and a divert is
required.

[Drew]

nope - not certain you get penalty (i think you do) but you certainly dont get a bonus

[HB-100]

well I did choose 3
but I wonder a little if I could have do it the other way around with again 2 possibilities:

a) cancel dest and don't declare an emergency (after all a gear you cant retract isnt a real emergency)
b) cancel dest and declare an emergency

but I think for a) you would get penalty in FSPassanger

Anyway seems Nr. 3 seem to be the right choose. I got no penalty:
http://www.fspassengers.com/?action=va&listflight=74859

But maybe 5) would have been better because passengers satisfication dropped low and with 5) you also dont get a penalty..except for
flight time maybe?

dunno,

I made it to the ground but hey, my heart is still pumbing and I am shakeing, that was one of the more 'crazzy' approaches, not because of
the gear but because of the weather! thunder flash sturm:


here 2 pics of my flight Nr6 (DTTA - GMTT canceled new DAAG canceled new: DABC where I landed):
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Ops, the gears don't get up:
http://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=...ic2bm1.jpg

Final approach (note the airport is at 2316 feet altitude!) Can you see something? Aeh.. I also couldnt see anything
http://img230.imageshack.us/my.php?image...ic5qo2.jpg

Almost aborted the approcach and headed to another airport (the one at the coast) but some few 100 feet above the ground I finnaly
could see something like a rwy ..
the first time I then that I switched on the landing lights to land
(they overblend too much usually but when you dont see much of the ground it well helps)

was a nice thrilling flight!

start to really love all the new envoirenement FSPAssanger and 2005traffic, so much different then before where it didnt matter at all
what you do.

cheers!
HB-100

[crowebird]

Drew wrote:
nope - not certain you get penalty (i think you do) but you certainly dont get a bonus

I have never cancelled my destination, so I wouldn't know exactly, but thanks for the input

[Ceemosp]

Your landing lights should be ON all the time below 10.000 ft. You can adjust the beam of the lights up and down (just check your FS9
manual).
A small light-guide:
Nav lights on as you man the cockpit (so the outside world knows that someone is home) and they stay on all the time until you leave the
aircraft.
Beacon lights must be switched on BEFORE you start the engines and OFF after your engines have COMPLETELY stopped.

Take-off
Taxilights are switched on after you received taxi clearance and before you start to taxi and stay on until you switch on your landinglights
for take-off.
Strobes are switched on when entering the runway with the intention to take-off NOT when you cross them or when taxiing on the runway
for takeoff (such as taxiing runway x to get to runway y). Also bear in mind that in real live they can be VERY disturbing to other pilots
(imagine looking into a really big photoflash) and therefore you have to bear that in mind as well.
Landing lights are switched on AFTER receiving clearance for take-off AND having positioned yourself on the runway. Switching on the
landing lights is a signal to other aircraft that you are about to begin your take-offrun any moment. When switching landing lights on,
taxilights go OFF.
Below 10.000ft taxilights stay ON - above that they go OFF

Landing
Normally the taxilights are switched on as an additional aknowledgement when receiving the "clear to land..." but it is NOT obligatory or
penalized.
When reporting runway cleared strobes are switched off as are landing lights.
At the gate/ramp it's taxilights OFF after setting the parking brake (make sure you do not MOVE when applying the parking brake).
AFTER shutting the engines down (jets need to have completely spooled down/ props must have stopped) the beacon lights are turned
off.
After grabbing your belongings and all other hoopla you switch navlights off and all electrics.

If you ever have the difficulty to realistic light settings, you will otherwise collect penalties galore

Greetz Carsten

[HB-100]

Thanks for theLight-use-guide,. Would be worth an own topic.

But at the moment I dont feel to handle light realistic and do not activate that penalty. Main reason is that the landing light as well as the
taxilight on my PA-320 blend that much that I really see a lot less than without light.

Usually I put on nav, strobes and bacon.
Nav's all the time,
strobe and beacon mostly. When I feel they would look snice *grin*
But in most cases I put all the 3 on, nav, strobe and beacon, and almost never taxi and landing.
I am not sure If I can set the landing light downward enough..but if I do I can't spot the ground on an emergency case like the one i had.

just one thing you said is strange to me:
"Your landing lights should be ON all the time below 10.000 ft."

aren't this light on the frontwheel? I eman as long as my gears are up I think then I only heat the gear box...can't it take fire than?

[Ceemosp]

The light on the front wheel would be most likely the taxi-light. Landing lights are normally located in the wings, fuselage, wing fairings or
engine nacelles

To adjust the beam of your landing lights consult your key assignments in the fs9 setup. Mine are controlled by ctrl+shft+Num8/Num2 (up/
down). I only experience problems when flying through very dense weather(fog) or on wet runways which is pretty realistic.

Greetz Carsten