Shooting an ILS approach after 14 years. It was on Microsoft flight simulator, but it was worth knowing, it was consoling to know that I still know the things. I decided to fly out from Lakefront airport, as I was familiar with the environment. I decided to fly out to Gulfport airport which is just over 50 nautical miles from Lakefront airport at New Orleans. It was the flight path which was flown by me when I did my first cross-country flight. I asked for an IFR clearance and it was given as cleared for Gulfport airport as filed asking me to climb to 3000 feet. I was on runways 18R and decided to keep the climate foggy to get a real feel of using the ILS approach. I put in the throttle and climbed out, after a positive rate of climb I made a left turn to 067 degrees. The GPS showed that the airport was 54 NM from here. Since it was all white outside there was not anything to look around except to track the instruments. It was easy to maintain the altitude however, it was difficu...
Hurray I cleared one more mission of the Jumbo Jet Flight Simulator mobile game.
The mission was to land the aircraft which was Lockheed L-101 Tristar safely as its trim malfunctioned.
The horizontal stabilizer jammed as I tried to land the aircraft at Catalina Airport.
The airplane started to drop rapidly as the trim for the horizontal stabilizer stopped working.
The airplane was controllable manually only.
The first thing I did to stop the rapid fall of the aircraft was to put down the flaps to full.
I don't know if this is the correct procedure or not, but this is what came to my mind.
During the after-analysis of the gameplay walkthrough video of the Jumbo Jet Flight Simulator, I found that the simulator itself suggested lowering the flaps to regain some pitching-up action.
I was successful in landing the aircraft on the third attempt.
In the first attempt, I was taken by surprise.
I was not familiar with where the runway was. I was high as I passed over the runway and ultimately crashed the airplane.
In the second attempt, I failed to align my aircraft with the runway at Catalina Airport.
The situation that I was given, put me almost at the base leg of the runway.
In the first two attempts, I was not aware of this situation and was turning earlier than required.
On the third attempt, I did not turn immediately and turned only when I was close to the runway.
I had already lowered the landing gear and put down the flaps and the aircraft was low two, maybe a little high for landing.
The simple reason is I did not check the landing speed for the Lockheed Tristar L-101.
The aircraft made a big balloon and in real life it means a crash. I was in a simulator so such kind of blunders can be waved off.
The wing of the airplane slid off the runway and there were big sparks came out.
The complete scene looked horrible as I tried desperately to stop the airplane on the runway.
The airspeed was bleeding fast and the Lockheed Tristar L-101 finally came to a halt one more mission was accomplished on the Jumbo Jet Flight Simulator.
Take a look at the complete gameplay walkthrough video and find out how the action unfolded.
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