Hey guys!I haven't seen any discussion about this topic yet so I thought I just through it in.I'm not a programmer and have basically no idea about the whole programming thing. So please excuse if I'm asking to much.But wouldn't it be possible to create a Random Failure Generator for - let's say the MD11 for example - just to make the flights more interesting?It would also be great if there is a way to adjust the chance that a failure occurs.Has somebody heared about such a generator or is somebody even able to create one?Happy Landings!

Uh Mat,don't tell me you didn't see the failure menu which was there from the beginning in the MD-11 (and the 747)? It can do random failures too...Markus

Hey guys!I haven't seen any discussion about this topic yet so I thought I just through it in.I'm not a programmer and have basically no idea about the whole programming thing. So please excuse if I'm asking to much.But wouldn't it be possible to create a Random Failure Generator for - let's say the MD11 for example - just to make the flights more interesting?It would also be great if there is a way to adjust the chance that a failure occurs.Has somebody heared about such a generator or is somebody even able to create one?Happy Landings!

Your kidding right? there always has been a random failure generator, I use it on the lowest setting for every flight. Or maybe I dont quite understand your question.RegardsRob

Some addon aircraft, such as the MD-11 and the 747 have failure engines built in - look through the PMDG menus in the sim.FSX (and FS9, I guess) also has a failure generator that works with stock aircraft and some addons. In the sim, look under "aircraft", "failures".You've just discovered how to make cruise flight much more interesting!

I prefer to use FSPassenger failures. Strange, I thought Rob here said in another post that he uses FSP all the time, but FSP does not recognize the PMDG failures as legit. Anywho, I prefer fsp's since it has lower settings, the lowest in PMDG's is 1 Event/10hrs. That to me is 1 out of every 3 flights, in some cases on long hauls, it means every flight. It also means you WILL have a failure within 10 hours of flight time, so if I have 3, 3 hour flights, my next flight I can guarentee a failure? I prefer the surprise of it and lower percentages personally, that change at random every flight automatically. Check out FSP, works great with the pmdg's. I just had my left landing gear not come down, haha, was a first for me but landed successfully :)PMDG's is good if you want to fine tune your knowledge of the systems and has more failures than FSP, but you better really know your systems, especially in the MD. Like I said, to me it's only good for fine tuning your knowledge, but from your post it sounds like you'd love FSP.

Thanks for the answers!!!!As stupid as it may sound - but I've never seen that one. I guess I focused on all the information regarding system depth and the correct operation of the aircraft that I forgot to look at the failure page assuming that it can only activate a certain failure at a certain time. So it was never really interesting for me!!! Sorry for that one :( :( :( But I have a question: "Stop after X Events fired" in the failure menu: does that mean that the trigger events /10hrs stops triggering new events after the number of events you entered in the "Stop after....." box?

Ive always wanted a more tweakable failure generator from the PMDG MD11 and 747 with reguards to time to failure but as this probly wont happen I just learned to live with it heh. I like to have a reason to plan for alternate airports and divertions rather than just planning them cause its realistic.One thing I love about the Maddog MD80 is the fact that you can set the generator so you can have minor failures and really bad ones and set the to randomly trigger from 1 hour upto more than 10000 hours. So it might never happen but when it does you need to know how to recover.I just wish the MD11 was as customisable. I love flying the MD11.

I prefer to use FSPassenger failures. Strange, I thought Rob here said in another post that he uses FSP all the time, but FSP does not recognize the PMDG failures as legit. Anywho, I prefer fsp's since it has lower settings, the lowest in PMDG's is 1 Event/10hrs. That to me is 1 out of every 3 flights, in some cases on long hauls, it means every flight. It also means you WILL have a failure within 10 hours of flight time, so if I have 3, 3 hour flights, my next flight I can guarentee a failure? I prefer the surprise of it and lower percentages personally, that change at random every flight automatically. Check out FSP, works great with the pmdg's. I just had my left landing gear not come down, haha, was a first for me but landed successfully :)PMDG's is good if you want to fine tune your knowledge of the systems and has more failures than FSP, but you better really know your systems, especially in the MD. Like I said, to me it's only good for fine tuning your knowledge, but from your post it sounds like you'd love FSP.

Hey Dan, I do use FSpassengers for the Extra failures and sounds etc but have the % so low that in the past year of flying I have only had 1 fuel tank leak. As long as you get the machine down without crashing then FSpassengers never needs to know that the PMDG system gave you a failure, just dont declare an emergency.Regarding the PMDG failure option, I think the 1 in 10 hour option works fine due to the fact the there are so many failures for the system to choose. That means most of the time I wont see a problem on an average flight, if I do it's a minor problem when I look it up in the QRH but I still learn something new about the aircraft. My only wish was that they made it like the LVLD 767 so I can turn it on and forget about it.RegardsRob

That's cool, I never really did much with the failures in the MD, but have in the 744. I figured with FSP running also that the failures would need more imediate attention and still need to devert. I looked them over for the MD, but I am too new in this one to catch most of them,,, maybe an engine failure, or the fuse cracking in half :( I have been using fsp since it was released for fsx as I'm sure you have and found the best setting to be 5%. Sometimes I'll get one in ten then at times 2 back to back. I like the %'s because it even with 50% you could fly ten flights with no failure since it is a constant reset percentage. I too like the way it is "set and forget". I don't own L-D yet, it's on my list, but need to learn the MD better before straining my brain cell on another :(I also like the interaction of course with failures and the crew of course. Speaking of which, I really wish the AP in the MD would not exceed 5000fpm! 3hr flight no issues, now a failed flight :(