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Slew mode shuts down my engines!

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I was preparing a flight from Anchorage to Dutch Harbor in my J41, and I was a little too close to the gate after engine start, so I decided to slew the aircraft back so I could turn it around. After pressing 'y' to disengage slew mode in FSX, both my engines shut down! And with them, the FMS. Incredibly annoying! Now I have to wait for the engines to cool down before restarting them (having to go through parts of the checklist again), and I have to turn the FMS back on and enter my flight plan all over again Black%20Eye.gif.Is this a bug in the J41??

Why not push back using shift-p?

I was preparing a flight from Anchorage to Dutch Harbor in my J41, and I was a little too close to the gate after engine start, so I decided to slew the aircraft back so I could turn it around. After pressing 'y' to disengage slew mode in FSX, both my engines shut down! And with them, the FMS. Incredibly annoying! Now I have to wait for the engines to cool down before restarting them (having to go through parts of the checklist again), and I have to turn the FMS back on and enter my flight plan all over again Black%20Eye.gif.Is this a bug in the J41??
Always save plan after entering it, place your aircraft in proper position before starting engines, start engines with chocks and parking brake on, use push-back instead of slew, and ... save that plan ;)

Yeah, I learned those things the hard way :). I don't know why slew mode shut my engines down, but I had similar problems with a default FSX plane just after that (engines shut down unexpectedly. Not in slew mode, though). Today I tested to see if the same thing would happen after slewing the J41, but it worked just fine after. I hope something isn't wrong with my FSX. I hate reinstalling it!

  • 1 month later...

Happened to me today - identical circumstances you describe. So you are not alone, not a problem with your installation but a quirk with FSX and/or the J41.

GregH

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Hmm..do the chocks do anything other than provide a nice visual? I had no problem pushing back..taxing ect..when I forgot to 'shift-2' and remove them. For that matter, the APU does a nice job of following you around when you taxi as well :D haha

Chancy Law

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