Bad luck?

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So I was planning an adventure around the more popular airports in the Socal region. My FPL took me from KNUC-KLAX-KPSP-KSAN, and finally full stop at KLAX. After an hour and a half or so, I was on final approach to KLAX, I was literally 10NM out when my IF Live subscription expired and I was kicked from the session, making me lose 4 landings and 1.5hours of flight time’s worth of XP.

Just wanted to share this unfortunate incident. 😂

Anyone experienced a similar situation and would like to share?

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Oh snap. That is very bad luck. but imagine if it was someone who had so many touch and goes and a lot XP

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That’s so unfortunate! I’m sorry for that issue. I think this teach me to not fly in long flights when my live is about to expire

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Right. But in all honesty I blame the TS1 controller on duty that gave me a 360 instruction (jk). Would’ve made it on the ground in the nick of time hadn’t it been for that. Well I guess I’ll be doing a few touch and goes to compensate for the XP lost from that flight. Haha

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Oh damn… that must be terrible… but the timing tho!

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Yes that’s what makes this experience more upsetting! I wouldn’t have really minded had it occured towards the beginning of my flight, but 10NM’s and 2minutes from my final landing, oh my. 😬😂

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I was flying with my 777 I started doing t&g’s in the entire region where my aircraft isn’t restricted. I was going to end my session by doing a landing at KLAX after two and a half hours of flight time. Guess what, I stalled because I was going too slow (obviously you don’t want to go more than 150KIAS when landing) when there’s less than 5nm left. Pissed off. I don’t use A/P for my landings (speed), I don’t use APPR either. That’s unfortunate right there.

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Me. That happened to me. Read my previous reply lol :/

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Maybe it’s attributed to you being tired. But you should improve your manual control and maintaining of your airspeed, it’s an important skill. I don’t use APPR or A/P when landing either. I usually go in at 140knots when landing my favourite aircraft, the 787-10!

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Yeah, I do land with 140KIAS or below. I was just too tired probably. I was just too low because I wasn’t using my glideslope. Too bad :(

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Also full throttle didn’t worked because I was too low I was going to do a go around but yeah. Slammed the ground. Hard.

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We all have these moments in IF. But well it’s these bad experiences that happen to become one of our best ones in the game. 😂

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Hahaha that’s a good point.

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I feel that in this case your airspeed must be way below the desired landing speed, even in the case of doing a low approach, you shouldn’t slam into the ground at landing speed.

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I was doing about 110kts and too low. I pulled up a little bit and that ended everything.

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I’m not really sure about the 777, but if I were to do a 110 knots approach on my 787-10, I sure as hell would slam into the ground too.

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They’re similar. You can expect the same performance from both of them :P

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Well then in that case, you now know you shouldn’t be going a 110knots landing speed. 😂 We learn and improve from our mistakes. Though often times we see pilots landing way overspeed, rather than underspeed. I remember I used to land at like 180-220knots when I was inexperienced. Not to say I’m experienced now, but I do know more than I did back then. ☺

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Like I said, I wasn’t checking my airspeed nor my glideslope. I do land super soft sometimes. As I’m approaching the threshold (white lines basically) I try to get 50FT AGL which makes a buttery smooth landing afterwards if you keep the nose up a little bit.

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Haha yeah. It was fatigue from your 2 hour+ flight affecting the quality of your landing. I think you meant 50ft VS?