Hi GuysYesterday I installed a bunch of addons, both payware & freeware (all aircraft).Now, when I start a flight with ANY aircraft, the engines immediately shutdown and I have to restart them.And worse, after about 8 or 10 mins of flight, they shut down again!!!It's just running out of fuel. All the main avionics stay powered. The engines just quit, both pistons and jets alike.Never seen anything like it.I've tried rolling back and uninstalling everything I installed, but I'm still left with the problem.Any ideas guys?Thanks

May be you have flights stored with engines shut off.Try with the default flight!

Always start your sim with a default plane loaded. Make all your preferred settings on that default plane and save a mode and make it your start up mode. Then, load an addon plane after that. There is a setting in Aircraft Realism about never running out of fuel. You can set that if you want. I put all my preferences into my start up mode.Lee

Always start your sim with a default plane loaded. Make all your preferred settings on that default plane and save a mode and make it your start up mode. Then, load an addon plane after that. There is a setting in Aircraft Realism about never running out of fuel. You can set that if you want. I put all my preferences into my start up mode.Lee

No, I've deleted ALL the stored flights to force FSX into a new default.I've also rebuilt the cfg file.It's driving me nuts.The thought of another reinstall is just toooooooo scary :(

Do you have a saitek yoke?They used to send phantom commands to the sim, if there's a key bound to fuel cuttoff or something like that, then that could be your problem...

No I don't.It seems the only aircraft I can now fly without shutting down after a few mins are those with their own fuel/engine logic, such as the A2A aircraft with Accusim.If anyone can think of what might be causing this I'd be very grateful.

No, I've deleted ALL the stored flights to force FSX into a new default.I've also rebuilt the cfg file.It's driving me nuts.The thought of another reinstall is just toooooooo scary :(

Awww...it couldn't be that bad, FSX's reinstalls aren't hell to me anyways :(. It always helps whenever I'm stuck with an add-on, registry, or config issue. Too bad for me, I never started flights using the default Cessna to get things in order when flying Super Sabres or even Spitfires all across Western Indonesia Dave.

ok this is convoluted so follow me - I had the exact same issue and this worked for me.Reset FSX to the default Trike flight - Start FSX - exit FSX - Start FSX - load default flight and fly - switch a/c - does a/c engine keep running? ( be sure mixture is rich, etc)Land a/c - shut down a/c ( I assume you want cold & dark) - save flight as default - exit FSX - start FSX - load default flight ( should be already loaded) - switch to preferred a/c - switch to preferred location - start a/c - should be fine.Vic

Thank you for the feedback guys.It turned out to be a hardware controller issue (as suggested).I have yoke & pedal PLUS a Saitek X-52 stick plugged in.There were conflicting settings between the the yoke and the X52.