Smoking engines

[wanabflyer 53]

I know this has been discussed before but i cannot find any thread that has actually nailed down the cause and come up with the solution.I am still quite new to large jets in FSX, so it's practice,practice, practice.For instance i am practicing NPAs at this time, so i have set up a flight and saved it at the point in the approach that i have to start doing all the things i am practicing. Say 25 miles out and then just keep going back to that point and doing all over again. I have initially set up by selecting a default a/c and then switching to my PMDG747, but after a few reloads of the saved flight, i end up with smoking engines. It seems that everything is OK for a while, then the file must get corrupted. at least thats all i can think of. Has anyone found the cause and successfully eliminated it?

[Petr Bily 0]

Hi, I had the same problem. If you go to the many for selecting afcts and select once again B747 smoke is gone.Petr

[cmpbellsjc 2,963]

Rick,I find what works best if you want to practice repeating flying approaches is to takeoff again after you touch down and stay configured. Then slew back to the starting point of your approach and come out of slew and you will still be configured and at the same airspeed at which you pressed the slew button. If needed you can always go a little father back or higher up so you can reduce flap settings or speed up to start over.Its probably a lot quicker than reloading the same flight over and over and you wont have the problems with the black smoke.This also works well when trying to set up your Ezdok landing or take off effects.Sean Campbell

[wanabflyer 53]

Thanks guys. Will look at both ideas. But for my practice i think i will go to the slew method. I also do have EzDok Camera. Thanks Sean.

[wanabflyer 53]

Hi, I had the same problem. If you go to the many for selecting afcts and select once again B747 smoke is gone.Petr

Yes it works, but why is this happening in the first place and is there a fix. I have gone back since soon after the release of the PMDG 747X and there have been discussions on this but never (that i could find) a definative fix for this problem.

[787flyer 648]

Rick,No fix available. A number of workarounds do exist as already mentioned.As far as I recall this issue was related to reloading the same aircraft within the same FSX session. Why the smoke is generated specifically, I have no idea. By selecting a 747 aircraft with different engines and then returning back to your original selection works for me.Hopefully this will get fixed in the next update from PMDG????RegardsMark

[wanabflyer 53]

Rick,No fix available. A number of workarounds do exist as already mentioned.As far as I recall this issue was related to reloading the same aircraft within the same FSX session. Why the smoke is generated specifically, I have no idea. By selecting a 747 aircraft with different engines and then returning back to your original selection works for me.Hopefully this will get fixed in the next update from PMDG????RegardsMark

Thanks a lot Mark. Not the answer i wanted but at least i know i don't have to waste my time looking until the next update . PMDG are you listening? :(

[Tabs 2,790]

As posted in another thread, this is a core FSX issue, we cannot fix it - only ACES could have (we told them about it during development), but they were shut down as everyone knows. Just something we have to live with.

[dubus 0]

Hello,I have the same defect with the passengers model . The defect in question never showed itself with the version Cargo (in spite of the numerous flights with this last version).(Electronic translation, thank you for your understanding).

[yos233 1]

As in Post #6 by Mark, there is no known solution. The problem is caused by loading the same engine type of 747 into Flight Simulator more than once. If you use different engine types there should be no problem but to use the same engines you will need to restart FSX.

[dubus 0]

Why the problem does not exist with the model CARGO ?