I've been flying the 77W since the day it came out. Loving every minute of it.

 

I had service based failures enabled since day 1 hoping that it would make me get to know the MEL quite well. I have since accumulated around 150 hrs across the 4 aircraft that I fly. I have to say that I seem to be getting the same old failures over and over again, mostly the bleed system (APU BLEED VALVE, HP SOV valves, etc) and an occasional NOSE WHEEL BALANCE problem. That's good, but it gets old after a while. 

 

What I actually started doing is programming 2 random failures per 10 hrs - this gives you more variety as any failure seems to be a possibility, bringing things like electric bus overheats, hydraulic overheats, window heat failures etc - great stuff to keep you alert and thinking. 

 

My question is whether the Service Based Failures were programmed to be rather limited, or should I be getting a little more variety than the BLEED problems? 

 

 

 

My question is whether the Service Based Failures were programmed to be rather limited, or should I be getting a little more variety than the BLEED problems?

 

Service based failures are set up to give you the most common failures more frequently and the less common ones less frequently. This is based both on how you treat the plane, and mean time before failure (MTBF - a time-based metric of how long parts are estimated to last).

 

If you want variety, you should set it using another method, which will be truly random by ignoring likelihood/MTBF.

I understand that, but I feel that in 150 hrs (@ 15x multiplier), more stuff should have gone bad than the bleed valves. Otherwise, the bleed valves must be a real headache on the 777...

 

 

I have since accumulated around 150 hrs across the 4 aircraft that I fly

Also remember that it tracks time per each airframe individually, not the total time that you fly in all planes.