Whenever I press escape to go into the options and then return again the engines shuts themselves off. Does anyone know what's up with that? Is there anything I can do to prevent it?

Is this in every aircraft or just some ?

I got the sim just a couple of days ago, so I haven't been able to fly all the planes, but so far I've had it happen to me in the Cessna 152, the CJ4 (modded), the Cap10 and the X Cub. Interestingly it did not happen with the DA40NG. BTW, I had this happen in the 152 even before I installed any mods. I got the assists on hard if that's somehow relevant

Edited February 14, 20215 yr by wims80

I did some quick googling and apparently there's a bug where if you have the mixture control assigned, some engines might turn off after returning from the escape menu. It works again after unassigning mixture control

9 minutes ago, wims80 said:

I did some quick googling and apparently there's a bug where if you have the mixture control assigned, some engines might turn off after returning from the escape menu. It works again after unassigning mixture control

glad you found a solution 😄

1 hour ago, wims80 said:

I did some quick googling and apparently there's a bug where if you have the mixture control assigned, some engines might turn off after returning from the escape menu. It works again after unassigning mixture control

Yep. A bug. Unassigning the mixture control is one workaround. The other is to have the mixture control at full rich all the time, even if the plane does not have a mixture control.

If you want to fly various planes with and without mixture control, create two control profiles. One with mixture control assigned, and one without. Just don't forget to switch the profile as needed.

...jim

 

2 hours ago, wims80 said:

I did some quick googling and apparently there's a bug where if you have the mixture control assigned, some engines might turn off after returning from the escape menu. It works again after unassigning mixture control

Nice resourcefulness!