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Hydraulic System Failure or Light Bulb?


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On KIAD-KTPA flight climbing thru 17000 feet the Master Caution lights up. I go to overhead panel and both OVERHEAT and LOW PRESSURE are amber/orange above SYSTEM A ELEC 2 and SYSTEM B ELEC 1. I checked the HYD P and HYD Q on side by side engine display. They all looked within the correct parameters. Q is 75% on SYSTEM A. but I believe it is SYSTEM B that requires the Q to be above 76%. I searched the QRF pdf (which was anything but quick – maybe a manual would quicker) about what steps to take. This whole sequence of events took maybe 3-4 minutes. Nothing bad had happen in four minutes, so I figured a light bulb was probably acting up. I decided to continue the flight.  Landed normally after the two hour fight to Tampa.  No failures were activated. Could a false alert be caused by a faulty light bulb?

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Did you center landing gear lever after takeoff? (Pure guess if it's really aircraft related)

 

I also read about this issue when you load a non default panel state orsaved flight - any of this happened?

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Did you center landing gear lever after takeoff? (Pure guess if it's really aircraft related)

Gear lever in center.

 

non default panel state orsaved flight - any of this happened?

Used NGX default panel. No saved flight loaded
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I'm clueless than because small amount of fuel can cause lack of heat dissipation and as a result overheat in hydraulics but it's not the case here... if no failures were activated in fms than I guess it's a bug.. I don't think bulbs can fail

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The thing is you have lights on when they shouldn't be. A bulb failure would cause the lights not to illuminate and it wouldn't trigger a master caution. It could be a relay or switch failure which could falsely put a light on and also trigger the master caution. But as you have four lights on together it's probably a glitch in your sim, possibly panel state related. Especially as you have no failures showing up as active. Even default panel states can become corrupted. Have you tried using a different panel state?

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I just completed the same flight,. Everything was exactly the same except for the weather. No master caution and no lights on the overhead panel. HYD P and HYD Q% were the same as the previous flight. Same NGX default panel state used. Like Kevin said it was probably just a glitch.

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