June 7, 201213 yr Hi guys, I wanted to know something. I have tried this Plane at my friends house and I'm quite impressed by this little piece of nice work. However there is some stuff that I need to know. I don't want to buy a non realistic plane and I noticed numerous non realistic thing. And the biggest one is this: I wanted to try a windmilling start in Air cause by an engine shut down (or a normal start in AIr) using realistic procedure. I put not enough fuel in the left tank and waited to see what was happening... The Fuel Panel was correctly configured. At 0 Fuel, the Engine L NO FUEL XFR illuminated, I shut down the Transfert pump as stated in real procedure... But the fuel does not seem to transfer as all my engine stopped ...ANd I was unable to start the engine again using real procedure Here was my procedure Air start (windmilling) Cabin temp: Off, Blower: Auto Radar: Standby or Off Windshield heat: Off Power lever: Idle Propeller: 2200 rpm Condition lever: Cut-off Fuel panel: Check Fuel firewall valve: Open Boost pump: On Transfer pump: On Crossfeed: Auto Generator (inop. engine): Off Airspeed: 140 kts minimum Altitude: Below 20 000 ft Auto-ignition switch: Arm Wait: 8 s Condition lever: Low idle Wait: ITT peaks Power, propeller: As required Generator: On Auto-ignition switch: Off Fuel control heat: On Electrical equipment: As required I don't know if it is a bug or maybe I'm not smart enough but this is not really fun to see. I don't want a plane that I have to fly straight out.. I want to be able to exercice some nice procedures... Cheers
June 7, 201213 yr I know I have tried the air windmilling start before and it did not work, I'm guessing its an FSX limitation, or bug in the plane. Sam Vaughan
June 7, 201213 yr Author Windmilling start is working on the Flight1 ATR ... I don't think it is coming from FSX I checked everywhere on Forums and it seems that the FUEL Panel is pure fake on the Carenado... It does not simulate anything on the Plane. ANd when there is one of the two pumps empty the plane stops... That's pretty impressive to see a 40$ plane without major feature like that ...I'm glad that I'm not bought it.
June 7, 201213 yr I put not enough fuel in the left tank and waited to see what was happening... The Fuel Panel was correctly configured. At 0 Fuel, the Engine L NO FUEL XFR illuminated, I shut down the Transfert pump as stated in real procedure... I'm having a hard time grasping what you're saying here. You shut down the transfer pump? The first thing the abnormal procedures checklist calls for is to check fuel quantity on the side with the inoperative engine. Since you already know that side has no fuel, you need to enable crossfeed operation before attempting a restart. Fuel Boost Pumps - ON Transfer Pumps - AUTO Crossfeed - OPEN [FUEL CROSSFEED] annunciator illuminates Fuel Boost Pump (operative engine) - OFF [FUEL PRESS] annunciator (operative engine) - EXTINGUISHED Then try your air start. Best Regards, Kurt "Yoda" Kalbfleisch Pinner, Middx, UK Beta tester for PMDG J41, NGX, and GFO, Flight1 Super King Air B200, Flight1 Cessna Citation Mustang, Flight1 Cessna 182, Flight1 Cessna 177B, Aeroworx B200
June 7, 201213 yr Author hehe, it is true that it is not really well explained... I put 100 lbs of fuel in left tank and I've put 600 lbs on the right want. I start flying and wait for the left tank to be exhausted. When it was at 0, Both engines stopped and I trying a windmilling start using abnormal procedure as stated above in my post .... But nothing was happening.
June 8, 201213 yr Windmilling start is not modelled in FSX. It can be simutated by faking the engine gauges' readings and the starter status -not simple to code though- Tom
June 9, 201213 yr Author You are right .... And they have not even managed to get a Gear Silence Button functionnal, I don't think they will be able to make a Windmilling start as the ATR does .... I will still away from this plane until they fix some many annoying stuff
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