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PL965Melo Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "Mar 14 0O0 - KSBP Flight report" 03-14-04, 20:46z  Cessna 208 Amphibian flight report San Luis Reservoir (0O0) to San Luis County Regional (KSBP). Had a good time last night, thanks a lot. Better explain my peculiar arrival at the airport though. <g> The flight took a little over an hour and I was the fourth Caravan in line for landing on Runway 11 at KSBP in line after Ben. Did not do a super job landing. <g> I was on short final and added another notch of flaps and all of a sudden, could not keep the aircraft from banking side to side. So I ended up landing on the (luckily unoccupied) taxiway to the left of the runway, but at least I made it down in one piece. Also had a lot of trouble steering the aircraft on the ground trying to get over to the terminal. The cause of the problem turned out to be joystick calibration. When I first fired up the simulator and was on the surface of the Reservoir in the Caravan, had no joystick response. So I went to my desktop game controller link and fixed the joystick so it would respond. (Happens about 33% of the time when I start the simulator) My one mistake was to not recalibrate the joystick after it was working again. I was across the lake from the rest of the group and in a hurry to catch up with you. Calibration was off somewhat, but not noticable in take off and gentle manuvers to follow the other aircraft, but off enough to botch a landing when joystick response needed to be precise. After everyone else signed off after the flight, I recalibrated the joystick and took off and went around and did another landing on Rwy 11 at KSBP. This time I had no trouble and the landing and rollout went just fine. Taxi to the terminal was also much easier. No audience for the second landing, but at least my spirits were lifted to find the cause of the problem so it can be avoided in the future. BTW, I have some inflight photos and proof of my second good landing if anyone is interested. Ben, what is the easiest way to upload a few photos? Regards, Melo PL965 Spitfire pilot, Glendale, CA Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Mar 14 0O0 - KSBP Flight report    PL965Melo       03-14-04              RE: Mar 14 0O0 - KSBP Flight report    Ben_Chiu       03-15-04       1            RE: Mar 14 0O0 - KSBP Flight report    PL965Melo       03-15-04       2                 RE: Mar 14 0O0 - KSBP Flight report    Ben_Chiu       03-15-04       3                      RE: Mar 14 0O0 - KSBP Flight report    PL965Melo       03-16-04       5         RE: Mar 14 0O0 - KSBP Flight report    PL965Melo       03-16-04       4            RE: Mar 14 0O0 - KSBP Flight report    andor       03-16-04       6                 RE: Mar 14 0O0 - KSBP Flight report    PL965Melo       03-19-04       7                      RE: Mar 14 0O0 - KSBP Flight report    PL965Melo       03-19-04       8                 RE: Mar 14 0O0 - KSBP Flight report    Ben_Chiu       03-19-04       9

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