Engine issues

[Jetx44 1]

Happy New Years everybody

 

Say, I am having issues with my engines staying on.   I do my normal cold set up like always.  Just when I am starting to taxi my engines stop running for a few secs and then come back online.  You would never know when it does it.  I could be in flight and they would shut down and the come back online.  I am not getting any messages saying that there are issues.  I have never had this problem before and it flights just great until recently.  Any ideas for me?

 

Jason

[777simmer 117]

Weird one.

I'd go with that empty CMOS battery thing causing registration problems again.

 

Is your PCs clock running correctly?

[Jetx44 1]

Yes, my clock works good.  It is strange though.  It was totally working fine since I purchased it.  I am not sure what to do?  I am hoping that the service pack will fix it.

[777simmer 117]

Hmmm....

 

You are sure the engines actually turn off?

They dont just go to a lower (idle) power setting? (due to a thrust lever hardware problem)

Because if the engines really shut down, you would normally get an EICAS Eng Fail message.

 

 

And make sure you try a fresh flight (dont start from a self saved flight or situation or panel state)

[Fabo 213]

Also don't start from Cold&dark for the time being, use Long turn.

[Don t moderate me this way 882]

Any addons running alongside? (SimPhysics, FS Captain and others can create icing effects and engine flameouts. FS Captain recognizes the T7 EAI, though.)

[Jetx44 1]

what is funny is that I am currently flying my PMDG 737 and it is also doing the same thing.  I have not tried my other planes yet.  I sure try the default planes too.

[willywonka 36]

Really sounds like a hardware throttle problem. Do you have the throttle override option set correctly?

[Jetx44 1]

I don't think it is a hardware problem.  When the plane is on autopilot, I get this engine off on issue and you never know when it will do it.  I also got it to do it on the triple while taxing and using my throttles manually.  I think I have to try other aircraft and the default planes to see if it also will do it with them.  I will let you know.  If it does it again using the defaults, then it has to be FSX and a coruption of some kind.

[777simmer 117]

If it is PMDG aircraft only that do this, then try deleting the FSUIPC.ini file (this will delete all joystick settings, but has fixed many different problems for many users)

[Jetx44 1]

Just took a flight in the PMDG 737. No issues at this time!!!  Maybe deleting the FSUIPC,ini did the job??  I have not tried the triple 7 yet.  I will do a flight soon.  Thanks 777 simmer! So far so good.

[Captain_Khan 0]

Happy New Years everybody

 

Say, I am having issues with my engines staying on.   I do my normal cold set up like always.  Just when I am starting to taxi my engines stop running for a few secs and then come back online.  You would never know when it does it.  I could be in flight and they would shut down and the come back online.  I am not getting any messages saying that there are issues.  I have never had this problem before and it flights just great until recently.  Any ideas for me?

 

Jason

Hi, I have a similar problem after shutting down both engines when i restart them again, only one engine 1 spools up the other, engine number 1, remains idle and it doesn't spool up no mater how many times i try pushing the throttle up or down or turning them off and on again. I tried both my throttle axis and keyboard keys. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Ps. Im talking about the Pmdg777

[Mike777 163]

 

 

Hi, I have a similar problem after shutting down both engines when i restart them again, only one engine 1 spools up the other, engine number 1, remains idle and it doesn't spool up no mater how many times i try pushing the throttle up or down or turning them off and on again. I tried both my throttle axis and keyboard keys. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Hi, Khan,

 

Two questions,

 

1) How is your throttle axis assigned?  There was a bug in FS9 that one engine would stop responding to the joystick throttle, not sure if it was carried over into FSX.  I assign mine through FSUIPC, although I have to say PMDG doesn't recommend this.

 

2) Do you usually use the same panel or startup state?  If so, try a different one.  Sometimes panel states get corrupted. 

 

Mike