January 9, 201511 yr Today I decided to try this "Foreign Object Damage" thing in the Maddog. I was amazed how the engine responded, and it felt very realistic. I was trying to stabilize the engine by reducing throttle. At some point the N1 rotation was 0. Normally you would have already shut down the engine, but I kept it running just to see what happens. (It's a simulator, what's the worst that can happen?) I still had N2 rotation and an EPR of about 1.30, and the engine kept running with the throttle on idle. At some point, the N2 gauge also showed 0. EPR was still up, but unstable and EGT was fairly high. When I increased throttle EPR, Fuel flow and EGT increased, and after a couple of seconds N2 came back up to about 20 and N1 to about 5 or 6, and than the engine caught fire. How is it possible for the engine to still actually run with 0 N1 and 0 N2? I'm not a professional at jet engines but I would guess that with the blades running so slow the sensors cant pick it up anymore it must be running so slow the engine will shut itself down, but it would still power back up when I pushed the throttle up (and than completely destruct itself) How does it keep running like that?
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