I was wondering if anyone could help me out.Keep in mind that this only happens with the md-11...not with the 747 or anything else.The engines randomly turn off on approach. I don't change anything they just all turn off. I am then able to restart them and continue the flight.Also whenever I program a star into the airplane it stops following the path and deviates about 30 degrees to the side. Keep in mind that I generally do this about 2 to 2.5 hours from touchdown. I therefore have to go with a heading and then arm the nav. Any help? or ideas?

I was wondering if anyone could help me out.Keep in mind that this only happens with the md-11...not with the 747 or anything else.The engines randomly turn off on approach. I don't change anything they just all turn off. I am then able to restart them and continue the flight.Also whenever I program a star into the airplane it stops following the path and deviates about 30 degrees to the side. Keep in mind that I generally do this about 2 to 2.5 hours from touchdown. I therefore have to go with a heading and then arm the nav. Any help? or ideas?

Steven,Never had the engines flame-out during approach, no idee what might be causing that.Have seen the second item before and still wondering WHY. Planning and entering a STAR during cruise should not temporarily deviate the aircraft from its present NAV track. Anyone else seeing this (randomly) too??Regards,Harry

Hi Steven, The problem you're most likely having with the engines shutting down is due to mixture. Let me guess, they shut down right around the time you're adding flaps? I had this problem before and it was with my saitek throttle quardrant and tied to my mixture. If you have automixture off it causes this. What's happening is when you move your flap lever it then get's that initial FSX focus to reset the levers for the 1st time in the sim. If you've started the sim with a prop plane and had your mixture all the way open you'll notice the engine never dies as it should. This is because there haven't been any changes. If you then just move it a hair you would get the engine cut off that should happen. The issue with the MD-11 engines shutting off always happened to me when I was on approach and gave flaps. Later I reassigned my levers and it would happen when I was throttling up for taxi. After this happening tons of times and no logical answer I just started to move all my levers when FSX loaded to wake them up before I got too far along. This wasn't a problem since I always start cold and dark but of course would be an issue otherwise.Soon after I realised it was the mixture lever and noticed if I checked Automixture to on I no longer had the problem.Hope this helps,*This issue is sometimes refered to as line noise or axis noise I believe.

Ok thanks (Turbine777) I will try the auto mixture...and lets see what happens with programming the stars because as you (KCA9304) said it should not deviate.