Experiencing CTD (Crash to Desktop) in Flight¶
In case you experience CTD after a problem that occurs in your system during your flight, if you have completed your landing and successfully left the runway and started the “taxi to gate” phase, FDR will not cancel your flight and will allow you to send a flight report, even if your simulator turns off. All other CTD situations apart from this phase will disqualify your flight.
Even if you turn off the “crash” setting in the settings of your simulation program, FDR may in some cases cancel your flight by considering that you made a CRASH, that is, an accident. These situations are:
Even if you turn off the “crash” setting in the settings of your simulation program, FDR may in some cases cancel your flight by considering that you made a CRASH, that is, an accident. These situations are:
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Landing in a place that is not an airport,
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Overspeeding for more than 30 seconds,
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Putting wheels on the ground with more than 1000 fps on landing,
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Landing without opening the landing gear,
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At the moment of wheel contact, when the front strut touches the ground before the rear wheels at a speed higher than a certain fps, that is, when it descends without flare. (The front landing gear touches the ground earlier than the rear landing gear with a pitch angle less than -4 degrees and a VS (vertical speed) (greater than -230...) (between 0 and -4 degrees, if the front wheel is first put on the ground softer than -230 fpm, a penalty will be charged only, a crash situation will not occur, but a score of +50 for perfect landing or +25 for good landing cannot be obtained even if it is a very soft landing!) (For VFR flights, this limit is -5 degrees and 250 kts GS). These limits may be debatable, but since it is not an acceptable landing method for a good pilot to fail to flare, or even to hit the front strut beforehand, this topic is not open to debate!
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At the moment of wheel contact, the bank angle to the right or left is more than 7 degrees (12 degrees in VFR flights).