in the clouds without a clue

il2crashesnfails · January 26, 2020

I look away and the artificial horizon line is gone. Pretty much could be upside down for all I know at this point.

anyway of getting that line back quick?

Here is an example

DD_Fenrir · January 27, 2020

Can you get the artificial horizon back? No. With your last remaining engine gone so went the generator supplying electrical power to keep the instruments gyros energised.

In this case you should have gone to limited panel; use your Airspeed Indicator, Vertical Speed Indicator, Compass and Turn and Slip indicators, scanning each for a second in swift and regular pattern to try and inform you what the a/c is doing.

It's called flying limited panel and is very hard. It will take practise.

il2crashesnfails · January 28, 2020

22 hours ago, DD_Fenrir said:

Can you get the artificial horizon back? No. With your last remaining engine gone so went the generator supplying electrical power to keep the instruments gyros energised.

In this case you should have gone to limited panel; use your Airspeed Indicator, Vertical Speed Indicator, Compass and Turn and Slip indicators, scanning each for a second in swift and regular pattern to try and inform you what the a/c is doing.

It's called flying limited panel and is very hard. It will take practise.

I didn't even think about the fact I lost the other engine so all power was gone.

But to be frank I was in alot of trouble even before the engine went out.

I have heard about limited panel flying before but its over my head/too advanced

I just watched a video about the radial scan and i think that will help alot, instead of relying on just one instrument.

wheelsup_cavu · 2025-08-28T17:05:22Z

I keep wondering what happened to @il2crashesnfails when I come across another one of his old threads. He was everywhere posting prolifically for a few years and then he just dropped off the map at some point in 2020. Everything went dark at roughly the same time too. Hopefully it was just a change in gaming style and not something else that caused him to disappear so suddenly.

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