March 28, 201412 yr I've had two engine failures in the past month, and I mean totally out of the blue failures, I've never touched the actual failure system in FSX. The first was in a Piper Archer, climbing past 1000' and the engine cut to idle, I played with the throttle and mixture, but it remained at idle, I had to circle for a field to land in as I lost airspeed. And survived.. The second failure was in a BA-2 Islander taking off from Saba (!). I was on full throttle, 10 degree flaps fully revved up when the engine cut suddenely halfway down the runway. I slammed on the brakes and didn't go into the ocean! They were one-off's, no idea why, but thoroughly enjoyed them both... - Paul Elliott http://www.avsim.com/topic/450607-amy-johnson-london-to-australia-attempt/
March 28, 201412 yr Looks like bad configuration of your throttle. Are you using FSUIPC? If you are, make sure you aren't controlling your hardware through different programs since that may cause incompatibilities. I control my hardware entirely through FSUIPC and have it disabled from the FSX settings page. Jaime Beneyto My real life aviation and flight simulation videos [English and Spanish] System: i9 9900k OC 5.0 GHz | RTX 2080 Super | 32GB DDR4 3200MHz | Asus Z390-F
March 28, 201412 yr Author Mmmm, just the usual plug and play Saitek throttle. I will recalibrate. Thanks. - Paul Elliott http://www.avsim.com/topic/450607-amy-johnson-london-to-australia-attempt/
March 29, 201412 yr It could very well be your throttle is malfunctioning, but it could also be carburetor icing if the OAT was near or below freezing. If the OAT is that low, it is advisable to use carb heat, even with fuel injected piston engines as MS Flight Sims are coded for carburetor icing and applies this to all piston engines, during taxi. Turn it off for the takeoff run so that you will have maximum takeoff power, but be prepared to reengage it during climb out. My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.
March 29, 201412 yr Are you running any Addons that could potentially simulate engine failures such as FSPassengers or FSCaptain?
March 29, 201412 yr Author No, no conflicting addons. The Pa-28 cut out in very foggy, cold conditions, which does suggest a carb problem. Never used carb heat, this sounds like a good opportunity to find out more about it.... I'm not particularly concerned about the problem at the moment, since its twice out of 50 or 60 flights. - Paul Elliott http://www.avsim.com/topic/450607-amy-johnson-london-to-australia-attempt/
March 29, 201412 yr Administrators Carb heat, pitot heat, all good things in cold, damp weather. Found all this out flying my Stratocruiser in Boston area snowstorm! Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
March 30, 201412 yr Cold and damp plus speed equals ice. My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.
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