Random FlightGear Screenshots

Cessna 182RG Skimming the waters under the Golden Gate Bridge 

Cessna 182RG - Somewhere over the Carribeans 

Saab JA-37 Viggen - Finally able to fly it. Turns out with keyboard, return to centre doesn't work. Once I use the mouse, problem solved.

A great landing with the F-16

Approaching Bonny Doon Village. I was actually too low for the approach.

Approaching Bonny Doon Village. Very low. Illusions with horizon, bent and lopsided runway.

AWESOME Approach

Check this video out.

In just under 4 minutes, the pilots of this Dornier went from cruise to taxiing on the ground. They even beat the skydivers to the ground. The moment the last skydiver jumped out the pilots put the plane into an inverted dive straight downwards, flew just above treetop level, and did a really FAST APPROACH, SWEEPING TURN at nearly 90degree and set the plane down onto the runway without missing a beat (or overshoot, or crashing).

THAT IS AMAZING. And also, very dangerous. BUT AMAZING.

They dove straight after the last skydiver jumped but I found it scary that it looked like they were diving straight into those sky divers.



Another angle:

A Scenic Flight Ends with Overrun

I was practicing my flying in FlightGear last night and just circling the airport and it was getting late - so, instead of exiting the flightsim I do what any hardcore simhead would do; turn back to the airport, and land.

Land I did. In my hurry to land and go back to sleep, I made multiple mistakes - approaching the airport too high, and as a result I had to basically dive the plane into approach; this came in way too fast to the airport, and made a series of careless turns to align with the runway.

The end result? I went onto the runway with idle engines, but the airspeed still going at 170-180 kias, floated above the runway for a while while the speed bled off, hit the runway unevenly past the midway point, and realizing the brakes were not doing the job I used the parking brakes - and I still went off the runway for quite a distance before I stopped.

Needless to say the CitationX I was flying got stuck in the ground. That was when I exited FlightGear.

If this were real life I would've not only gone off the runway, but hit various obstacles like trees people and buildings. Not good.

Lesson? Don't rush the landings. It would be OK in sims but certainly not OK in real life.