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The DRIVE amber caution light comes on when?

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The DRIVE amber caution light comes on when: * Low oil pressure is sensed in the IDG * The IDG is disconnected automatically due to high oil pressure * The IDG is disconnected manually with the drive disconnect switch * The engine is not running.

Jim Driscoll, MSI Raider GE76 12UHS-607 17.3" Gaming Laptop Computer - Blue Intel Core i9 12th Gen 12900HK 1.8GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 16GB GDDR6; 64GB DDR5-4800 RAM; Dual M2 2TB Solid State Drives.Driving a Sony KD-50X75, and KDL-48R470B @ 4k 3724x2094,MSFS 2020, 30 FPS on Ultra Settings.

Jorg/Asobo: “Weather is a core part of our simulator, and we will strive to make it as accurate as possible.”Also Jorg/Asobo: “We are going to limit the weather API to rain intensity only.”


 

"The DRIVE amber caution light comes on when:* Low oil pressure is sensed in the IDG* The IDG is disconnected automatically due to high oil pressure* The IDG is disconnected manually with the drive disconnect switch* The engine is not running. "Yes, no and maybe... (again)Underfrequency, underpressure will put on the DRIVE light.Overtemperature might trigger a thermal mechanism and disconnect the Constant Speed Drive from the generator. This will indirectly put on the DRIVE light (when the generator is underfreq or the oil pressure gets too low).Manual disconnection produces the same effect.Engine not running? Well, if it is windmilling really fast, perhaps you can get the drive to spin fast enough to generate electricity and build up the oil pressure ; )On some other types of Boeing, underfrequency doesn't put on the DRIVE light, so it is easier to extinguish this light.Cheers.Qavion

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The reason I posted these questions, was because no answers were given to these questions, on the Smart-cockpit 737NG questionnaires. i was leaning towards low oil pressure on this question.

Jim Driscoll, MSI Raider GE76 12UHS-607 17.3" Gaming Laptop Computer - Blue Intel Core i9 12th Gen 12900HK 1.8GHz Processor; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 16GB GDDR6; 64GB DDR5-4800 RAM; Dual M2 2TB Solid State Drives.Driving a Sony KD-50X75, and KDL-48R470B @ 4k 3724x2094,MSFS 2020, 30 FPS on Ultra Settings.

Jorg/Asobo: “Weather is a core part of our simulator, and we will strive to make it as accurate as possible.”Also Jorg/Asobo: “We are going to limit the weather API to rain intensity only.”


 

I fly the 737 for American and the acceptable school house answer is low oil pressure.

Tom Landry

 

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I fly the 737 for American and the acceptable school house answer is low oil pressure.
I wanna do my next type oral in Dallas, then. :(

Matt Cee

Well since all "orals" for initial training are on the computer now that may not be the proper answer on that test. I did my initial training before when we still did traditional oral exams. For recurrent training low oil pressure is a good answer.

Tom Landry

 

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