Sudden power loss during climb and electrical problem

[Stingray 1]

Dear Gents,

first I have to apologize for my bad english. Anyway I have one serious problem with the DC 6 and another minor problem.

1. When performing a flight without the AFE during climb phase I get a sudden engine loss down to MAP 20 on all 4 engines. Conditions are clear skies and all procedures in my opinion well done before. No chance to get out of the trouble, aircraft stalls and crashes. With flight with AFE no problems. With manually throttle movement from METO Power the engine bmp runs up an down and the MAP ist very slippery.

2. An engine idle run with 1000 RPM is in my case not possible cause the GEN s go off the Bus and there is no electrical power left. In my case I need 1.500 RPM idle power that the GEN s remain on the bus.

Any tipps or tricks consurning my problems.

Thanks a lot

Peter

[PMDG777 231]

1 hour ago, Stingray said:

Dear Gents,

first I have to apologize for my bad english. Anyway I have one serious problem with the DC 6 and another minor problem.

1. When performing a flight without the AFE during climb phase I get a sudden engine loss down to MAP 20 on all 4 engines. Conditions are clear skies and all procedures in my opinion well done before. No chance to get out of the trouble, aircraft stalls and crashes. With flight with AFE no problems. With manually throttle movement from METO Power the engine bmp runs up an down and the MAP ist very slippery.

Sounds like you're breaking something by not operating correctly. Make sure you've flown the tutorials. 

1 hour ago, Stingray said:

2. An engine idle run with 1000 RPM is in my case not possible cause the GEN s go off the Bus and there is no electrical power left. In my case I need 1.500 RPM idle power that the GEN s remain on the bus.

You've turned the battery off. 

1 hour ago, Stingray said:

Any tipps or tricks consurning my problems.

Thanks a lot

Peter

 

[Stingray 1]

 

I have turned the battery off! okay, have to check this, thx!

I have read the tutorials and they are for flying with the AFE. I tend to fly without him just like I do in most of the A2A aircraft ( connie, B377 ). All my mixture settings, cowl flaps, RPM and MAP settings are acording to the books. Also no clouds or moisture to avoid carb icing or things like that. It is very strange but I will try again. the only thing I think about is maybe a to steep angle of attack or climb rate. Is that possible that the engines may stall cause they are out of the air flow.

Thanks for answering!

Peter

[xender 459]

Happens to me too. I dont know why. Every gauge is within the green band. Im wondering if im doing something wrong by running a lean mixture at high altitude? Right now im at 20,000ft, Every gauge in green and away from the yellow/red limits.

The BMEP gauges are showing 110
Manifold pressure is like 31
cyl head temp 90
 rpm 2500
Speed 180
Oil press 90
All temperature gauges within green bands.

With these values and a rich auto mixture is working fine. I will turn the mixture to lean and will see what happens

 

[xender 459]

Well guys i did a test putting engine 1 and 4 in a lean mixture and leaving 2 and 3 in a rich mixture. Both 1 and 4 failed within 5 minutes, while 2 and 3 are still fine. So it looks like using a lean mixture at altitude kills the engines. Why is that?

I noticed that the cyl. head temperature went up (But still within the green band) and the oil pressure dropped to just one notch above the lower red band but it looks like within acceptable limits. Why is the lean mixture causing them to fail?

[Stingray 1]

 

So, Battery switch was on plane state. The elec problem is somewhere else. Just tried to start the engines, no engine start is possible. Each engine fires up and rpm rises only slightly below 1000 and than bang thats it.

In my opinion there is a huge problem with this addon. Very dissapointed about PMDG, sorry. Fast return to my A2A aircraft. From the beginning on I had my doubts, cause everything is turning around this AFE and thats it. Only standard FSX programing and this is the result. Missing aircraft state remember or dimmable lights, okay, but this engine and battery issues, that is a shame sorry.

 

[xender 459]

16 minutes ago, Stingray said:

 

So, Battery switch was on plane state. The elec problem is somewhere else. Just tried to start the engines, no engine start is possible. Each engine fires up and rpm rises only slightly below 1000 and than bang thats it.

In my opinion there is a huge problem with this addon. Very dissapointed about PMDG, sorry. Fast return to my A2A aircraft. From the beginning on I had my doubts, cause everything is turning around this AFE and thats it. Only standard FSX programing and this is the result. Missing aircraft state remember or dimmable lights, okay, but this engine and battery issues, that is a shame sorry.

 

You must be doing something wrong. I got this addon yesterday and here im, cruising at FL200 without touching AFE and with all the realism settings turned on.

 

Giving up is not the answer. Testing and reading is.

[MatzeH84 81]

33 minutes ago, Stingray said:

 

So, Battery switch was on plane state. The elec problem is somewhere else. Just tried to start the engines, no engine start is possible. Each engine fires up and rpm rises only slightly below 1000 and than bang thats it.

In my opinion there is a huge problem with this addon. Very dissapointed about PMDG, sorry. Fast return to my A2A aircraft. From the beginning on I had my doubts, cause everything is turning around this AFE and thats it. Only standard FSX programing and this is the result. Missing aircraft state remember or dimmable lights, okay, but this engine and battery issues, that is a shame sorry.

 

Well, even though I also like the other products more, alone for the immersion factor, but the issues you describe are not present on my '6'.. flown three longer (3-4 hours) legs now without any problems at all.

[Stingray 1]

 

You are right, giving up is not an option, but I am sure that there is someting wrong. Did my first flights with AFE and everything went okay. I dont like this AFE, specially cause of the throttle inop during AFE use. These sudden power losses and the GEN dissconect at low ground idling is in my opinion a bug. Look at the checklist in the POH, even the AFE prepares the aircraft for example for engine start not according the list  ( magneto switches, mixture lever )

Try a flight beginning in sunset in FSX, no red internal lightning, just kicks in when FSX dawn phase goes to night mode. These are things we had 5 years ago but not allowable by PMDG addons for 70 bucks. A max of 30-40 dollars is it worth, not a penny more.

what is about your engine problems Xender? you solved it out?

[Olympic260 415]

Real names on the forum please.

saying there is a bug while with AFE you do not have an issue clearly indicates that you are doing something wrong and you are missing a step somewhere. I have flow in numerous times without the AFE during the beta and never had any issues.

 

try the following, use the AFE up to the departure and then just abort him and fly your self, still have the issues ? 

[MatzeH84 81]

I start this way:

Boost pump low- starter on- 6 blades, mags and primer on, 12 blades, boost on.

The engine will fire up anytime- however, if I leave the throttle at the idle setting the AFE gave me, it will starve immediately. But when I apply a bit more, it will fire up as intended. Then quickly mixture to auto-rich.

Took me some time to fiddle it out, and it seems not logical to do it, but I guess some of the behind-the-scenes physics we're used from the other dev is just missing or isn't as complex.

What I found is that primer, starter and boost will go off by their own after some time, which is rather strange, but the gens work for me.

[Stingray 1]

Hi Chris,

I did that already. It is possible that I am doing something wrong, no doubt about that but I really cannot believe it yet. But I will try it again. But as I said I dont like the AFE cause even the AFE makes some actions I cannot belive ( for example, AFE sets Auto mixture lean during climb out ) Auto lean setting is only for cruise!

Okay, stop yelling now, promised! but a little dissapointed here. what about the battery issue? this is a thing where you can do only one fault, Batterie on or off. Mine is on and generatos off the bus below 1200 RPM with the consequence of loosing any elec power! over 1200 GEN kicking on again but for example GPS Reality XP has to be programmed new!

Thanks for trying to help! have fun with the DC 6, I go back to the A2A Connie

greetings

Peter

[Don t moderate me this way 882]

To me it looks like the AFE doesn't manage fuel properly. When I switched from the main tanks to the alternate tanks manually, performance of engines #1 and #4 was restored.

Oliver Märtens (Maertens)

[Stingray 1]

Hi Matthias,

glad that everything is working for you. But as you mentioned, it is not so clear the hole thing or let me say, there are huge differences between AFE settings and the POH. But okay, have fun with her.

 

Peter

[MatzeH84 81]

The AFE doesn't manage the fuel at all from what I saw.

On the last flight I did I ran the main tanks dry during cruise, but had enough in the alternates. What does the FE on approach? Switches to the emtpy mains.. great stuff.