Twice in Leg 5 I got to within a few minutes of landing at the destination and the engine quit.  I'm guessing it's because I ran out of time.   The opening says the plane cruises at 125 knots.  Even at full power I was in the only in the mid 90s.  I managed to land on a road but trying to restart the engine did not work.  Got a hundred or so RPM's but that was all.

 

You didn't run out of time; you ran out of gas. You have to manually fill the tanks - the scenario doesn't do it for you even though they've disabled the ability to call ground and request fuel. You need to assign "repair and refuel" to a key command (I use shift-space) and then refuel when your fuel is low.

Many thanks for help on 'out of gas'

Many many thanks for this, It was extremely infuriating to be 5mn before arriving to Almirante Schroeders SCDW and see the plane go down without having done anything. I'll refuel and see what happens. 🙂

It seems the game lacks some pointers as to what to do during these bushtrips, especially if it's the first you're following. 

I've tested just right now assigning R to "Repair and Refuel" ("Réparation et ravitaillement" in my french game) and it works great in mid air

Also there is another bug but it saved me 40mn : if you crash for lack of fuel like this, and go back to the menu, click on Continue et relaunch, you'll restart at the beginning of the leg.

But if you hit Alt-F4, close the game, relaunch it, return to the bush trips from the main menu and click Continue, the game may restart you a few dozen seconds before the crash, allowing you to use the mapped button for Repair and Refuel and finish the last 4mn to the airfield. This is what saved me from this fuel problem and also from some restarts from the forest where you can't take off because you crash every 10meters in the trees. Just alt-f4 and relaunch.

Have a nice day.

 

Edited February 5, 20224 yr by Eiradiana

The bush trips (some of which should really be called grand tours, but I digress…) are a ton of fun and fantastic showcases for the regions. 
 

But some of these obvious bugs like leg completion or refuelling ability really do make you throw your hands up at the QA process - heres hoping SU8 squashes some of these once and for all.

I've noticed running out of fuel anywhere will mean you don't get an award at the completion of all the legs. Perhaps Eiradiana's Alt F4 trick will keep the pilot from being so punished !

simulacion extrema has this Patagonia airport SAWE on discount for $9 in Marketplace. The same Creator has other Argentine and Chilean airports at 30% off.

And 4 airports in Japan!

https://www.simulacionextrema.cl/2021/12/15/sawe-rio-grande-para-msfs2020/

 

Amami in Japan is pretty typical of their quality.