Extra EA-500/failure dialog
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General
The Extra500 incorporates a dialog that enables you to produce failures (and to repair them) in various aircraft systems through a graphical interface. The dialog is accessible through Extra 500 - Failure Dialog.
Purpose
The failure system in the Extra500 model is far from complete. It incorporates a mixture of failures that are interesting and/or fun. They are in not selected on if they are likely to occur. It is to test your pilot skills, try out different approaches handling these failures or just to see what happens.
Personal note:
One of the first failures I implemented was 'gear jammed' and is still my favorite. Just to try out to land on two gear legs and keep the aircraft reasonable free from damage. What is the best strategy? High or low speed landing, flaps extended or up, or maybe just a belly landing.
The dialog
The dialog features a menu on top. You can select the aircraft system or on the far right choose to REPAIR ALL. Note that all failures are present if the the dialog is open or not. However all failures are resetted with each flight session.
Once you have chosen your system, you just need to click on the component you want to break. The component color will change to red and a text will appear stating the exact failure. Also the menu-system button will have a red field with a number in it, representing the number of failures of that particular system.
Here you see the dialog with the FUEL system active with one failure active as well: the LH auxiliary tank is leaking. In addition, the gear system has 2 failures.
Pressing the REPAIR ALL button will repair all 3 failures instantly. In case of the fuel tank, the tank won't be leaking anymore, but the fuel is still gone.