My nephew crashed my Bonanza in the New Zealand wilderness

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Nephew was helping me with some yard work this weekend, and once we got done I wanted to show him the sim. I loaded up the Bonanza and LittleNavMap, fired her up, and took off from Gisborne (NZGS), headng north.

I handled the climb out to 5,000 ft. engaged HDG and ALT, and showed him around the cockpit and beautiful external views.

Then I disengaged the AP, and let him ‘take the wheel’ so to speak.
He flew around for a while, then dove down into a valley like he was flying an F-16 on a strafing run.
Needless to say, he hit 220 kts. very quickly, then said, “I’m going to land over there” - pointing to a small patch of reasonable flat dirt next to a river. I just laughed, knowing I couldn’t lower the gear or flaps.

He gave it the old college try, but of course got the fatal message: “You have collided with an object, and caused irreversible damage to the aircraft.” :sweat_smile:

He thought the sim was really cool, and ‘got’ the reasons I’m enjoying it so much.

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Hey, a bush flyer :slight_smile: Best part of the hobby imo :+1:

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Let your nephew know I would nave nailed that landing no problem at all.

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Unfortunately, not the first time, even with real planes:

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I remember reading about that one, and seeing the dramatization on ‘Air Disasters.’
So messed up.

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