I love aviation...

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..but it hates me.

I was using FlightSimX to fly a Cessna Skyhawk from Memphis Int'l to the muncipal airport in Jonesburo, AR. The hour-long flight went fine, until i decided to join the traffic pattern at the Jonesburo airport. I was too high on my first final, so i told ATC i would fly over the runway, turn around, and try again. After flying the crosswind, downwind, and base legs of the pattern, i set myself up for a second final. My glide slope was perfect... at first. Then i realized with my engine at idle, i wasn't going to stay airborne long enough to reach the runway. So i added power to get myself a little more time. Unfortuantely, i didn't add enough power to fix my airspeed. As a last resort, i tried very forcefully manuvering the joystick to fix my flight path.

The outcome was thus: my front wheels hit the dirt about 100 feet from the threshold of runway 23, and my precious plane went tail-over-nose. I'm not sure what the aviation term for this manuver is, but when a human does it, i call it a "faceplant."

At the very least, this crash occured in the safety of cyberspace.

The morale of this story is... WATCH YOUR DAMN AIRSPEED, PILOT!

Trust your instruments, 999,999 times out of 1,000,000 they're right and your perception is wrong.

I have thousands of hours on flightsims but I just don't have fun if there isn't a gunsight in front of me.

Same here. They need a new version of CombatFlightSim...

CFS is in version 3 and it pretty much sux unless you get the Firepower addon. Even then...

Il-2 Sturmovik is terrific but has a few AI issues. There's a new version coming out later this year called Storm of War: Battle of Britain. Can't wait!!