Engine/Airframe time per repaint?

[Rhinozherous 90]

Is the DC6 in FSX and prepared counting the operating time per repaint? I flew with the fresh installed UAL repaint and it didnt show the times I flew yesterday, with the KLM repaint.... Or is there a bug regarding not saved times?

(i have seen somewhere in this forum a topic about this, but it is not clear if bug or not)

Thank you!

[VOJu24 7]

The hours are definitely per livery.

You find them in the <simulator folder>\PMDG\PMDG DC-6\Aircraft folder as .hours file per aircraft registration.

I'm not quite sure when the hours are saved, because some liveries I used only for some minutes or less than an hour still show 0.000 hours, but for the complete flights I've done it seemed okay but I didn't track it in detail.

Best,

David Miller

[Rhinozherous 90]

Thank you very much! 

[petesmiffy 3]

DC 6A - I flew 50+ hours in the BOAC livery. Then I flew 2 hours in the Air Atlantic/British Eagle. Returning to the BOAC I find all hours reset to zero.

However, the hours recorded for my KLM DC 6B were not affected.

Opening the PMDG Aircraft file I find 3 hours files for the same aircraft, namely a file 131594.hours, a G-AOMP.hours and a G-AOMP1.hours.

This is in FSX.

Suggestions please on how to maintain accurate records

Peter Smith

 

[petesmiffy 3]

The plot thickens. I have just noticed that the Air Atlantique aircraft has the registration G-APSA on the outside but the "tag" on the pilot's panel says G-AOMP, the registration of the BOAC aircraft.

Peter Smith

[petesmiffy 3]

Three downloads of DC 6As led to three corrupted hours files.

I have deleted and reinstalled. All now seems well, but I lost 57 hours on one airframe. Is it possible to edit the hours file to regain those hours?

Peter Smith

[petesmiffy 3]

Okay. Deleted all three 6As.

Reinstalled BOAC. Started up the engines, cranked sim rate up to x16 and went and had a cup of tea and a couple of Bourbon biscuits. Got back and I had my 57 hours back. Backed up the .ini and .hours files. Reinstalled the Air Atlantique and the C 118, No problem, until I ran them and then the files were corrupted again.

Peter Smith