Can MSFS Kill you?

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:11:44 -0500, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:


"Danny Dot" wrote in message
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"Steve Foley" wrote in message
news:Rkfdh.3039$Gp2.1364@trndny06...
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief2.asp?...FA021& akey=1

"The airplane was being operated as an instrument flight rules (IFR)
cross-country personal flight under Title 14, CFR Part 91, when the
accident occurred. The non-instrument rated, solo private-certificated
pilot, sustained fatal injuries"
......
"The flight originated at the New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport, New
Smyrna Beach, Florida, about 1920 eastern standard time (EST), and was en
route to the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, New
Orleans, Louisiana. "
.......
"The instructor noted that the accident pilot had been practicing the
flight route to New Orleans using a Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
program, on his personal computer. "

If it gives a private pilot confedence he can fly IFR, I would say it can
kill you. The weather was 100 foot ceiling and 3/4 mile visibility. This
is a very hard approach for ANYONE to make.

I used to own a 35 model Bonanza (the one with the forked tail). The
plane is unstable in roll, very unstable. You look down to get the next

It may have been out of rig and the plane is normally quite stable.
*quick* and light on the controls, but stable. However when
comparing airplane stability between pilots it becomes a relative
term. If the pilot is used to a 210 the light controls and quick
response of the Bo would make it seem unstable to that pilot.

chart and the plane rolls to 45 degrees in a flash. If you do nothing,

That's where you take your hands off the yoke before turning and
looking down.

roll will increase. It would be VERY easy to loose control of the plane.
He had a J35 model which was made in 1958. I wonder if he had any type of
autopilot. Just a simple wing leveller would help a bunch with the
unstable roll of the plane.

Danny Dot

A gun will kill you as well, if you point it at yourself and pull the
trigger. :-)

I've flown the early V tail Bo quite a bit during my career and never had
trouble in roll. I found the airplane quite stable in all axis. It does
however have a tendency to oscillate in a continuous coupling that can make
the back seat pax sick as hell.

Ahhh... The old back seat barf factor.
Mine is a straight tail, but it likes to wag its tail as well. The big
difference I see is in turbulence. There, mine *seems* to do much
better.

With the quick response, a bit of tail wag, and the back seats being a
bit behind the main spar it makes for some unusual sensations. If you
pull up the back seat passengers tend to pivot down in the plane but
feel the acceleration of the pull up which confuses the senses. Now
throw in a bit of side to side movement which ends up with the
passengers in a sort of stirring motion resulting in the "urge to
regurge". Pardon me, but would you pass the lunch bags.please.

The only thing worse is a first timer with a camera.

Our line boy hated the airplane. Every time I brought it back from a
charter, he had to clean up the back .
:-)

Maybe those new garbage bags with the built in tie strap instead of
the little lunch bag? Stuff their heads in and tie it around their
necks.?

Dudley Henriques
[MVP] Microsoft Flight Simulator

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

"Roger" wrote in message
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 12:11:44 -0500, "Dudley Henriques"
wrote:

Our line boy hated the airplane. Every time I brought it back from a
charter, he had to clean up the back .
:-)

Maybe those new garbage bags with the built in tie strap instead of
the little lunch bag? Stuff their heads in and tie it around their
necks.?

I think I remember the line boy attempting to do that to one of the pax one
day while he was walking out to clean up the airplane. :-)

Dudley