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DVA3363
Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on July 20 2006
Online Quadruple Century Club
Quincentenary Club
"Follow your bliss." Hollywood, FL USA
529 legs, 1,550.6 hours
437 legs,
1,317.2 hours online 493 legs,
1,449.8 hours ACARS 16 legs,
42.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 28 2006 22:05 ET by Ricardo Sosa
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I don't know if this have been brought up before, so I will now...
For absolutely no reason at all, most of the time I'm doing a flight, my 757 gear collapses. At first, I thought it was my computer, but then Brody Jones said that he was having some problems with it also. I'm talking about the one that you get from the DVA installers. Usually, I'm taxiing to the runway for takeoff and all of a sudden my front gear collapses. First my aircraft begins go bounce up and down for no reason and smoke pops out from the wheel, and then it collapses. To Brody, today, when he landed at PHNL (Honolulu), all of his gears collapsed and the aircraft sank into the runway. Also, today, when I touched down on runway 33L at Logan Intl. I rolled out perfectly, and out of nowhere, my left gear collapsed. What I want to know is, is it a problem with the aircraft, the installer, my computer, or some other factor. I would really like some help with this. I have some pictures of it below.
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/1561/gearcollapseproblem1ww5.png
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/7863/gearcollapseproblem2wh7.png
Here you can also see the ACARS report. If you zoom into Logan Intl. you can see that the aircraft swirved to the left and ended up on the grass.
http://www.deltava.org/pirep.do?id=0x2688A
I hope someone can help.
Thank you in advance, Ricardo Sosa (DVA3363)
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DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM
Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club
"pitchpowertrim.com" Anderson, MO
619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs,
503.1 hours online 580 legs,
1,026.5 hours ACARS 89 legs,
191.0 hours event 236 legs dispatched, 110.1
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 28 2006 22:38 ET by Michael Brown
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DOH!!......I heard DVA's maintenance was on strike. Something about not wanting to work for free anymore......I mean....the nerve!!
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DVA3626
Captain, EMB-120
Joined on October 10 2006
"Gravity always wins!" Southeastern United States
33 legs, 83.4 hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 28 2006 22:51 ET by Wallace G. Villarini
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oh man thats gotta be embarressing for the pax...sorry don't know the problem there.
Wallace G. VillariniCaptain, EMB-120
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DVA2784
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP, COMM, 737-ATP
Joined on January 01 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Online Double Century Club
Quad-Jet Quartermaster
US Mountaineer Club
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
US Coastal Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Four Million Mile Club
"The PAST...learn from it or repeat it." Highland Home, AL USA
2,297 legs, 9,670.9 hours
243 legs,
873.7 hours online 2,024 legs,
8,459.1 hours ACARS 22 legs,
51.7 hours event 0 legs dispatched, 0.5
hours
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Posted onPost created on
December 28 2006 23:47 ET by Rob Morgan
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Make sure your hydraulic system is powered up.
Rob MorganSenior Captain, B777-200
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DVA3710
Senior Captain, DC-6
OLP, COMM
Joined on November 12 2006
B757 100 Club
50 State Club
Quatercentenary Club
Piston Prop 100 Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"God is my pilot. I'm just the First Officer." Apopka, FL
432 legs, 690.6 hours
35 legs,
60.8 hours online 385 legs,
620.1 hours ACARS 6 legs,
7.7 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 29 2006 00:34 ET by Sid Dudley
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Mine has done that once in a while too. Not sure what is causing it.
Sid DudleySenior Captain, DC-6
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DVA3490
Captain, B777-200
Joined on August 19 2006
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Century Club
Online Century Club
"Live free and Fly Smooth is my motto" Northeastern United States
185 legs, 443.2 hours
159 legs,
397.5 hours online 163 legs,
373.5 hours ACARS 26 legs,
72.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 29 2006 00:37 ET by Kristoff Davis
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Have you guys been checking the weight and balance on ur aircrafts!! That maybe the problem!!
Kristoff DavisCaptain, B777-200
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DVA3294
Captain, B767-300
Joined on July 02 2006
Online Double Century Club
Quatercentenary Club
"Failure is not an option" Fort Lauderdale, FL USA
446 legs, 854.1 hours
266 legs,
409.6 hours online 13 legs,
16.4 hours ACARS 33 legs,
60.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 29 2006 11:58 ET by Ryan Nicolay
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Try reinstalling the plane, that might help if something messed up your aircraft cfg file.
Ryan NicolayCaptain, B767-300
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DVA3363
Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on July 20 2006
Online Quadruple Century Club
Quincentenary Club
"Follow your bliss." Hollywood, FL USA
529 legs, 1,550.6 hours
437 legs,
1,317.2 hours online 493 legs,
1,449.8 hours ACARS 16 legs,
42.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 29 2006 17:48 ET by Ricardo Sosa
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I know it's not the hydraulic system, because it's always powered up and I never mess with that. And it can't be the weight and balance because I always check that before I depart and it should be correct and safe for me to use. I've reintalled the plane, but am still to have to do a flight to test it. So I have yet to find out if that will fix it.
I've also found a new problem. However it may not be as big as the other one. The aircraft is supposed to have a virtual first officer who calls out things during the flight. For example, he would call out V1, Vr, V2, gear going up, flaps 1, flaps 15, flaps 30, etc, etc, etc. But he just isn't saying anything. Does anyone know how to fix this problem, as well the the one previously mentioned.
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DVA2821
Captain, B737-800
Joined on January 15 2006
Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Everett Century Club
Spokane, WA
158 legs, 259.3 hours
83 legs,
143.2 hours online 139 legs,
227.2 hours ACARS 5 legs,
8.4 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 30 2006 14:08 ET by Jay Coffman
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the nose gear is always a prob in fleet installer, just turn of crashes and push through it. I found going to an external view of the aircraft causes this...i know it sounds wierd but try it and you will see this is the issue... LOL also for the co pilot there are three buttons on the lower left side of the main panel. I dont rememberexactly what the initials on them are but I know one of the is VB. Either way...those need to have a green light lit undernieth to activate copilot
Jay CoffmanCaptain, B737-800
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DVA3735
First Officer, MD-88
Joined on November 17 2006
"GOD made Man and we made Flight Sim'" Western Europe
27 legs, 66.8 hours
8 legs,
15.1 hours online 17 legs,
28.5 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 30 2006 15:09 ET by Mark Gronan
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It must be those be those gremlins again always sabotaging things little green monsters
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DVA3363
Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on July 20 2006
Online Quadruple Century Club
Quincentenary Club
"Follow your bliss." Hollywood, FL USA
529 legs, 1,550.6 hours
437 legs,
1,317.2 hours online 493 legs,
1,449.8 hours ACARS 16 legs,
42.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
December 30 2006 15:30 ET by Ricardo Sosa
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For the gear problem: I use FS Pax and so I don't think that you really are able to COMPLETELY turn off crash. Also, Brody did tell me that it was when you change the view to outside view, but I didn't really think that was the problem. So I guess I'll stay inside the aircraft until I get airborne. The reason I did go outside is because being outside makes my framerate be higher. But I defragemented my computer, and what an improvement did it make! It brought my framerates from 6-10 to locked at 30FPS.
For the Virtual Copilot problem: I have the button green as it's supposed to. It still doesn't work. I guess I'll work without it as it's not a big deal. Thanks for all the help and for the humor of Michael Brown and Mark Gronan. LOL
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DVA2315
Senior Captain, MD-88
Joined on April 30 2005
Long Beach 250 Club
Six Century Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"www.harborcounty.net" Cypress, TX USA
674 legs, 1,380.9 hours
506 legs,
907.6 hours online 495 legs,
1,029.0 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
December 30 2006 21:33 ET by Daniel Shaw
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Ricardo, you can disable crash detection with FS PAX. Search the water cooler for a thread about it as I cannot remmember the specifics right now. But i think it's along the lines of going to the FSPAX folder, and there should be a few .CFG files, one of which is something like "moreoptions.cfg" in there is a series of options that you can turn on or off by chanign a number to a 1 or 0. If i remmember correctly, 1 is on, 0 is off.
Daniel ShawSenior Captain, MD-88
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DVA3363
Captain, B777-200
OLP
Joined on July 20 2006
Online Quadruple Century Club
Quincentenary Club
"Follow your bliss." Hollywood, FL USA
529 legs, 1,550.6 hours
437 legs,
1,317.2 hours online 493 legs,
1,449.8 hours ACARS 16 legs,
42.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
January 31 2007 18:28 ET by Ricardo Sosa
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Regarding the Virtual Copilot problem: Today I connected a my mom's headset in order to use voice on SquakBox. When I connected it, I noticed that the Virtual Copilot was working, then I disconnected it and it didn't work any more, and reconnected it and it started to work. So what I have just discovered is that for some reason my speakers is producing certain sounds and not produce certain sounds. I think it's maybe because one of them doesn't work at all, and the other one was dropped and maybe doesn't work correctly.
So I guess I figured out the problem!
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DVA3661
Captain, EMB-120
Joined on October 24 2006
"Discipline, Honor, Dignity " Albuquerque, NM USA
20 legs, 46.1 hours
2 legs,
3.2 hours online
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Posted onPost created on
February 01 2007 12:02 ET by Chris Cutter
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This happens to me sometimes it really makes me mad.....do i turned off the crash, it stoped it
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