Landing gear screwed up

[alstr]

Incredibly weird series of events today. What should have been a short hop on a Saturday afternoon between KCRW and KDCA turned into hours of restarting and weird bugs.

First, when I loaded up the sim I noticed the landing gear looked very strange, with the nose gear at a 90 degree angle and the main gear twitching. I didn't leave it like that. This was a new scenery I had loaded, Yeager, which has quite a detailed custom mesh, but I don't know if that was the problem. I think the aircraft seemed to think it was in flight.

I tried reloading the aircraft, but when you reload aircraft, it is impossible to spawn because the button is greyed out? So I had to completely quit X-Plane.

In any case, I created a completely new airframe, that must solve it surely, and I spawned at different location in the same airport. Again the gear was screwed up.

When I started taxiing I had a 'steering INOP' message and nose wheel steering didn't work until I re-toggled that switch.

On takeoff, I blew every tyre, losing control quite a bit, and X-Plane produced about 100 popup windows to tell me, which took about 3 minutes to clear off the screen. I reloaded it to before takeoff and the exact same thing happened so I just had to takeoff. I checked failures and there was nothing listed...

 (The front gear missing was just X-Plane's replay mode not showing it for some reason).

When I landed the tyres were fine.

I am not saying all of these are the fault of the CL650, but it was odd.

Edited 1 hour ago by alstr