TBM900 suddenly triggers all failures.

[alex666467]

Hello. Today whilst flying the TBM900 it suddenly began spiralling totally out of control, and everything failed. Controls unresponsive etc. The log seems to indicate everything worn 100% and failing after some kind of collision. I've only used the plane for something like 30 hours (if that) and maintenance said it was all fine still. Is there an explanation for this random happening? 

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[CJSouthern]

The "big" question is possibly "were the failures in flight?" or "were the failures that resulted in everything being marked as 100% damaged just the result of the ensuing crash?".

Case in point, just the other day I had something that appeared to be similar; I was descending from FL 310 - I was a bit puzzled by the dropping airspeed - and then all of a sudden all hell broke loose; I was unable to control the aircraft and ended up crashing despite pausing the sim several times on the way down to "think things through".

It dawned on me a couple of days later that it was due to icing; I didn't have the various icing protections on (apart from Pitot heat) and I don't normally have long periods descending IMC. So it was just a case of some bad habits catching me out.

Perhaps something similar?

All I can suggest is to have the sim set to not throw any failures, and keep an eye on the maintenance (I scan mine after every flight and replace anything that's not "as new"). I have had periods where I've had unexpected things happen (like an engine quit for no apparant reason), but of recent it's been pretty good.

 

 

Edited April 15 by CJSouthern

[alex666467]

Icing a good thought, but it was at cruise and out of cloud. Maybe I had accidentally triggered some failure. 

Thanks for the reply.