Flying the Shakyjake Cessna 195.

 

Flightplan: UKKK BASO1R SULUM LIDNO ATREK MURK1A LUKK.

Altitude: Climbing from 6,500 to 8,000 MSL

 

1. About 20 miles North of SULUM, power fell to near or at Idle power.

2. Assumption (Yea, I know): Carb. Icing. Applied Carb. heat with no affect.

3. Spot View: Smoke trailing aircraft, but no flame displayed.

4. Set up for a forced landing.

5. At about 2,000 MSL, smoke went away in spot view, still no power.

6. Landed in a field, engine continued to run, but no throttle control.

7. Shut the engine down (mixture control) and restarted the engine with no problem.

8. Takeoff and Continued the flight with no problem.

 

Been flying MSFS since the old original 5 inch floppy days and this is a new experience that I have never seen before. In my realism settings, I have the Flight Model General slider full right, all others full left. The only other things checked are the ignore crashes and damage setting in Crashes and Damage, and Display indicated airspeed in Instruments and lights options.

 

I suspect this may be built into the aircraft modeling, but have flown the ShakyJake 195's many times over the years and have never seen this happen. I tried everything I could think of except shutting the engine down while still in the air. Possibly that would have reset everything and a restart would have solved the problem but we may never know.

 

Happy flying!

RTH

 

How is that for a little bit of unsuspected realism thrown in?

Found the problem!

 

I am afraid it was so simple, I overlooked it. The panel of the aircraft in question had no carb. heat leaver, so no indication as to whether it was applied or not was shown. I found that the "H" key was not activating car. heat in any aircraft although it was assigned in the options>settings>controls>Button/Keys. I have no idea why it no longer had any effect. I deleted it and selected it again for carb. heat and it still did nothing when the "H" key was pressed. I reassigned the "Ctrl" plus "H" selection for Carb. Heat and it worked just fine. My Cessna 195 seems to now be even more sensitive to Carb. icing, but application of heat brings power back normally now.

 

For good measure, I installed a leaver for Carb. Heat in my 195 panels and may do the same for a number of other aircraft. Due to this glitch in MSFS it seems like a good idea to me. I even have had some jets that lost power at altitude and responded to Carb Heat due to this known glitch.

 

Happy Flying:

RTH

Gotta love little stuff like that.

 

On a recent 'simulated' period race from London to Melbourne that I was a participant in, I had my Caudron 450 (freeware: http://restauravia.fr/html/creations_fsx.html) start losing power in some rough weather at pretty high altitude. There is no carb heat control on that plane whatsoever.  Luckily, I picked up power again down low and was able to complete my leg.  That said, it was one of the few times where I've not been prepared for icing, and then actually encountered it. ^_^

Thanks for the reply Jimmy:

 

Sometimes there are strange things that happen in MSMS.

 

About six years ago, I flew the "Amelia" around the world flight offered with Arick Hohmeyer's L10E Electra which I very much recommend. A lot is offered included Amelia's believed route . On one leg I started to loose barometric pressure in Active Sky Evolution. Finally, I could not maintain altitude and I made an emergency landing at the nearest airport. I then checked the pressures along this route in ASE and found the following: OOGB = 29.91"; OOMS = 29.97"; OPJI = 21.39";  OPOR = 14.98"; OPMK = 0.00"; OPMK = 7.47". The next leg recovered: VADS = 23.91"' VAJB = 29.9".' MSFS weather implementation did not seem to have this problem, only ASE.

 

I have never seen such a thing before or since anywhere else in the world (going back to the old 5" floppy days).

 

Happy flying and thanks again for the reply:

RTH