Yes we're back in Microsoft Flight Simulator once again today two reasons why we're doing that first
of all it's raining outside i don't really want to leave the house but secondly our numbers are
starting to come down here in Melbourne finally which is really good news and it does mean that
fingers crossed we're waiting for an announcement in two weeks time that that five kilometer radius
around our house that we're not allowed to go further than at the moment that's hopefully
gonna go which means i can get down to the airport i can start flying and share that with you here on
the channel. But i haven't flown for over two months so what i thought we'd do today is jump
into the simulator and practice some emergency scenarios because they're always fun isn't that
right milkshake get on with the flying all right all right let's get a home airport then we'll set
Moorabbin as our departure and we're back in the trusty sr22 again but what i'm gonna do today is
there's these new failures well not new but i haven't used it on the channel yet new for me
new for us and what you can do where you can be like most of us were in primary school you can
be a complete failure or you can just fail other things small things like your oil systems you can
have an oil leak what i want to do is a couple of classic engine failures that you'll do if you've
done any flight training and the cool thing about this is we can say we want a complete failure
we want to arm it and i want it to come so the first one i want to do is i want to do an engine
failure like shortly after takeoff so let's say between one and two minutes i've got real world
flying conditions on as usual and like i said it's a horrible day so we have some pretty low
instrument meteorological conditions to play with put one stage of flaps in take the park break off
let's go full power we'll start rolling down the runway and we've got airspeed alive on both
engines looking good for the moment 60 knots 70 knots so we'll rotate here now climbing out
the thing of the series you might think when the engine goes what am i going to do am i going to
pull the chute 90 knots i'll get rid of the flaps so until i'm at 600 feet i'm not actually allowed
or i'm not supposed to pull the parachute so we're coming out to 400 feet i feel a bit nervous
actually because i don't know i know it's gonna happen but i don't know when it's gonna happen
500 feet oh this is no good because we're at 600 feet now so at this point i would be pulling the
parachute i actually wanted the engine to go sooner than this is the engine going to fail
oh it is there we go all right so engine's gone now if i wouldn't normally pull the caps parachute
at this point but as you can see it's not working so we're going to have to find a place to land so
the first thing i do is not put the nose right down you've all been taught different things
with an engine failure i've been taught a really simple thing aviate, navigate then communicate
so acviate i want to actually fly the aircraft at 88 knots which is not there 88 knots is our
best glide speed secondly i want to try and get myself to a potential oh there's lightning there
i want to get myself to a good landing spot i'm not going to be able to turn back to the airport
airport's over there somewhere in the murc i'm not going to try and go down on a road i don't think
i think my best bet is to go for this beach and i've often thought this about flying out
of Moorabbin is what would i do if i did have an engine failure down here because it is quite
heavily populated now i know i'm going to make the beach i'm going to put one stage of flaps out
there we go and i may as well put the other one out as well because what we want to do is we want
to land with as little forward energy as possible so we'll come down here flare it flare it flare it
And set it down on the beach beautiful there you go and we'll be on the news tonight. Right
i want to try that again but this time let me just go to weather and let me go to clear skies
perfect because i want to try the classic
can you turn back to the airfield if you have an engine failure after takeoff
oh park brake would be good can you now i'm not going to say should you because this is
never a question we should really be answering on youtube but is it possible in this simulation
to take off and turn back to the airfield if you have an engine failure at low level after
you've taken off there we go a little bit more visibility over the top that's better so 390 knots
first stage of flaps go away coming up through 200 feet we're just climbing out as normal
uh engine failure now now can i turn back and get to the airfield well i want to
make sure again aviate so don't pull the nose up but i want to glide at 88 knots
and at that height there's no way i'm going to make this i'm
not going to be able to come back i'm going to go into this building here
no way that would have been survivable and you can see how little time you have as well
see what were we there so about 300 feet no way you have enough time to get back to the airport
let's try that again see if we can get a little bit more height it's one big reason why i do
love the series in real life because the climb rate on this aircraft you can climb at about
1500 to 2000 feet per minute you can get high very fast you know what i mean so let's climb out about
80 knots which would be our best angle of climb take the flaps out there so we're higher than we
were on that last attempt you can see we're coming up through 400 feet now 500 feet say we're doing
a regular circuit so say we are now turning in the circuit we'll be climbing up to a thousand
feet we know the airport is off to our left now just checking the airport there it is behind us
Oh engine's gone all right so aviate first of all 88 knots let's make sure we get 88 knots
and we'll try and trim for that and get the nose down a little bit more we can go through some very
quick checks there's anything happening try and put the mixture through full control fuel pump
on that doesn't do anything throttle through its full range that doesn't do anything either
so navigate now we're going to look for a place to land do we think we can make the airport from here
i don't i really don't think we can but let's try it so i want to turn but not too sharp
you can see we're building up a bit of speed so i can lift the nose try and pull it back
at this point because we have a tiny bit of time we're at 500 feet we can do the communicate bit
so first thing i'll do is i'll tell my passengers or anyone on board what they should be doing
strapping in making sure that they are aware that we've got a real emergency here i very
quickly try and get on the radio to air traffic control and let them know what i'm trying to do
if this was me for real i'd actually go off to the right here now i try and go into that area
because i don't think we're going to make it over these buildings to be honest you can see look at
my airspeed there it's already coming down i have to put the nose down i'm not going to make it over
these buildings so even at that height that far from the airport you can see we're coming
into the trees here and in the summer it'll be fine we'll bounce off the roof but in real life
that wouldn't have been pretty now when you're doing this sort of simulator training so it's
a little bit if you've ever done this in a sim or with your instructor you kind of know it's coming
it's not like the engine's going to fail it's like when is it going to fail so you're kind of
going through it in your head beforehand let's get a little bit comfy in the aircraft and i'll
start doing some circuits so between three and six minutes i'm not sure now when this engine failure
is going to happen is it on takeoff is it on final approach is it at circuit height who knows 50 60
all right just a regular flight a regular circuit i'll get to 500 feet make a left-hand turn
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much all right we're coming up to about a thousand feet there's the airport to the left of me
let's level this off here bring the power back looking for there's about 45 degrees
the runway let's go one stage of flap and we'll slowly start our descent start our base turn of
course we'll be doing all of our radio calls and everything like that i'm a little bit
fast so i'm just gonna bring the nose back a little bit just to get this to about 90 knots
there we go see i've got the heading bug pinned on the runway heading as well that really helps me
especially in the flight seem to know that should mean the runway is basically off there pretty
much to our left turning to final with our next stage of flaps looking for around 80 knots here
just drop the nose a little bit 500 500 feet all right so far so good 80 knots
looking pretty good on the runway actually not looking too good i'm pretty flat very flat in fact
oh an engine failure here well so all we were actually configured
it's kind of the perfect time for it to happen oh that couldn't worked out any better actually
as well it kind of sucks for the video because it's not quite as dramatic as i wanted we'll
do it again 60 knots sp is good on both 70 knots all right 390 knots first stage of flaps goes away
let's get an outside view just so you can have a bit of a different view there we go
around 100 knots on the climate i generally climb out at about 110 that's a good cruise climb
but because we're in the circuit here and we want to be sticking close to the airfield
i'm just going to trade a bit of speed for altitude all right that's better we're up at
altitude so we can come back on the power pretty high actually on this one check our spacing to the
airport and then in the cirrus i'm generally looking at about 20 power at this point down
downwind 100 knots is pretty good oh that's not that's a bit of a sloppy circuit actually i really
i can feel that i'm a little bit out of practice having not flown for a little while even in the
sim yeah see i'm actually quite a way away from the airport now so i'm going to start my
turn down wind here turning to downwind ah now engine problem so i've got no engine
first thing i need to do is aviate so let's get 88 knots there we go so trim for 88 knots
navigate i'm going to angle myself towards the airport immediately get away from this
populated area very quick troubleshooting checking the mixture checking the throttle
don't want to be diving down fuel pump so nothing's really happening here so aviate
navigate i'm making my way towards the airport i can see that directly ahead of me i'm going
to give a quick passenger briefing let them know what's happening if i can get on the radio which
i would do because this is a class d airport there'll be other aircraft just a major medium
engine failure turning back towards the airfield i haven't got any flaps out at the moment because
i'm not confident i'm going to make it and i don't want to make this turn too sharp but here we go
i should be able to get over the trees here and line myself up with the runway again not too sharp
there we go lined up with the runway
don't want to balloon it this is quite tricky coming in and
getting the speed off here we go touch it down
and bring it to a halt on the runway and i'm pretty confident the only reason why i made that
back to the runway was i recognized that i was drifting away from the airport on that downwind
leg i was too far away from the airport so i actually brought myself in and then when i had
that engine failure i just just just made it back to the airport that was fun another test let's
not make it so easy on ourselves though let's go back to what it would be like that's good this is
exactly what it looks like outside we just got a cold front passing through us at the moment
so what we're going to do is we're going to climb out straight ahead passing through 90 knots we'll
get rid of the first stage of flaps i'm just looking at my artificial horizon looking at my
altitude looking at my asp just trying to climb there i'm going to lower the nose just a tiny bit
i've already got rid of my flaps if we look outside i can't really see very much
so here i am making my merry way to Sydney as i usually would flying out of Moorabbin
i'm actually i'm heading south at the moment here i am making my way to Hobart as i often
would flying out of Moorabbin it's been a long time really cannot see anything below around us
air traffic control is trying to get hold of me in this sim i don't want
ignore air traffic control oh beautiful just as we just as we crack out of the clouds at
the top we've got an engine failure now we've got altitude look we've got 3000 feet we've got a lot
of time to make some decisions here so the first thing i can do is i'm faster than my 88 knots
my glide speed so i'm going to try and gain a little bit more altitude let's do a couple of
quick travel checks does the mixture help no fuel pump on does that give us anything no
that doesn't still watching my speed all the time don't get obsessed with what's going on down here
change the fuel tank does that help no working my way up the console is there anything else
that i can notice it's not an electrical issue i've lost engine power nothing i do down here is
helping me fix it whatever other troubleshooting checks you would do in your aircraft do them
don't just go by what i did there anyway we can't start the engine we're a glider now
so the second thing i do then is navigate i can't see the ground below me so i'm not sure what
i'm looking for i know that i've got populated areas to my left and i've got ocean to my right
and i've got the coastline down here so what i would i see how i'm wandering off as well see i'm
wandering off to the to the left there that's just me not looking at my primary instruments
and getting into a bit of bother there so let's get the airspeed back to 88
and let's start flying us down the coast so now i'm navigating i'm trying to find hopefully
somewhere down the coast i can actually start to see the ground coming in which is great but i know
if all else fails i'm going to turn right and i'm going to put the aircraft in the ocean i don't
want to try force landing over a populated area where i'm not confident i've got an open space of
ground and then communicate i tell the passengers what's happening i'd make sure they buckle up put
away any loose items brief them on exiting the aircraft getting out of the aircraft and then
i would jump on the radio and say something like mayday mayday mayday echo yankee zulu echo yankee
zulu echo yankee zulu engine failure we are approximately one mile south what are we
south east of Moorabbin sierra foxtrot that's the waypoint i have here on descent we are going to be
doing a forced landing along the coastline we are two POB one pilot one cow and see even whilst i'm
doing them i'm focusing on you know trying to tell you about what i'm doing but also focusing on my
radio call i'm just wavering off my speeds always fly the plane fly the plane that's your number one
priority if you can only do one thing fly the aircraft now i'm getting out of the clouds a
little bit i can start to look around and see is there any other this field here looks quite nice
actually should we try for that would you try for that i think we will 500 feet to the ground
i'm going to get one stage of flaps out
this should be looking all right i'm gonna get now my second stage of flaps
the moment i'm confident i'm gonna make it i punch in that second stage
of flaps and i really try and slow us down brush the top of the trees
as slow as you can
my heart's going now i've had a little bit of a go at Microsoft Flight Simulator in the
past saying it's a bit more of a game than a flight simulator but because of
the realism visually of what you see on the ground if you want to practice things like
engine failures and decision making like that like should i go right to the beach or left this field
it's actually i reckon it's a really good way to practice hopefully next up on the channel i'll
be reviewing the new Garmin D2 Air pilot watch it's brand new only just come out and they're
sending me one to have a look at so thank you i mean but it's somewhere in Europe right now it's
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