Most intense sim experience ever!!!!
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 1:50 pm
Hello all,
I started with pilotedge about 1 and a half month. In this time i made all the CATs and until the I8 rating and i learned more in this period about aviation than in all the years in other networks and trying to learn by myself. (Amazing workshops by the way, pure gold!).
Lately i´m flying the Marquetti sf260 for X-plane, which i recommend to everybody. (I know the TBM is amazing,..i know.. but if you try this Marquetti maybe you park the TBM for a while.)
Anyway, today i planned a IFR flight from Ontario to Henderson Executive and i was very surprised to see rain in Socal, but weather reports at departure and destination airports where not bad so i made the mistake of not checking carefully the en-route conditions (never again).
My filed altitude was 11000 with a msa of 10500 and after few minutes cruising i started to see ice building very fast in my windshield, then in my wings, and in less than two minutes i was loosing speed quite fast. It was very clear at this point that i would never make the destiny airport and i needed to descend as fast and low as possible. During the time that lasted my first call to the controller to inform him about the ice building and request heading an as lower as he could give me, the thing got so much worse that my speed drop below 90 and i needed to start to descent trying to not stall, what ended somehow in a crazy out of control spin that made me loose about 3000f. (i didnt see that coming..maybe because of the IMC )
After recover from the spin and trying to maintain the plane level i have about 3sm visibility and i could somehow see the mountains around me, (thanks god because i lost radar contact). The controller was sooooo amazing at all times. I didn´t have any GPS onboard and after the spin i was veeery disoriented but he gave me an estimate vector to Victorville what at this time and with 3sm visibility i thought i would never see, but i did! and i land safely after all.
My first impulse when i had the problem was to disconnect but i´m so happy i didn´t. The controller was spectacular!!!!! I think i even listen other pilot mentioning it on the radio at some point. When i connected today i could never imagine the flight would finish like this. THANK YOU VERY MUCH from here to this controler i was so tense and overwhelmed... but he made everything work out at the end.
Pilotedge is simply amazing. The only thing i´m not happy about is that i didn´t discovery it before!!!
I started with pilotedge about 1 and a half month. In this time i made all the CATs and until the I8 rating and i learned more in this period about aviation than in all the years in other networks and trying to learn by myself. (Amazing workshops by the way, pure gold!).
Lately i´m flying the Marquetti sf260 for X-plane, which i recommend to everybody. (I know the TBM is amazing,..i know.. but if you try this Marquetti maybe you park the TBM for a while.)
Anyway, today i planned a IFR flight from Ontario to Henderson Executive and i was very surprised to see rain in Socal, but weather reports at departure and destination airports where not bad so i made the mistake of not checking carefully the en-route conditions (never again).
My filed altitude was 11000 with a msa of 10500 and after few minutes cruising i started to see ice building very fast in my windshield, then in my wings, and in less than two minutes i was loosing speed quite fast. It was very clear at this point that i would never make the destiny airport and i needed to descend as fast and low as possible. During the time that lasted my first call to the controller to inform him about the ice building and request heading an as lower as he could give me, the thing got so much worse that my speed drop below 90 and i needed to start to descent trying to not stall, what ended somehow in a crazy out of control spin that made me loose about 3000f. (i didnt see that coming..maybe because of the IMC )
After recover from the spin and trying to maintain the plane level i have about 3sm visibility and i could somehow see the mountains around me, (thanks god because i lost radar contact). The controller was sooooo amazing at all times. I didn´t have any GPS onboard and after the spin i was veeery disoriented but he gave me an estimate vector to Victorville what at this time and with 3sm visibility i thought i would never see, but i did! and i land safely after all.
My first impulse when i had the problem was to disconnect but i´m so happy i didn´t. The controller was spectacular!!!!! I think i even listen other pilot mentioning it on the radio at some point. When i connected today i could never imagine the flight would finish like this. THANK YOU VERY MUCH from here to this controler i was so tense and overwhelmed... but he made everything work out at the end.
Pilotedge is simply amazing. The only thing i´m not happy about is that i didn´t discovery it before!!!