Yesterday I tried the King Air, when descending the engines quit. Enough fuel left. All de-icing was on. What could have happened?

 

Is there a quide or tutorial on how and why to set power-PROP rpm-condition levers in the different phases of the flight?

The default MSFS KingAir is not very realistic when it comes to engine management, I therefore doubt that you will find a guide for it. What could have happened? Maybe you operated the fuel levers and cut them off, or the engine parameters were in the red for too long. Generally, try to adjust the prop levers so that rpm is not in the red, On my system, I have to set them to about 80%.

Peter

3 hours ago, qqwertzde said:

The default MSFS KingAir is not very realistic when it comes to engine management, I therefore doubt that you will find a guide for it. What could have happened? Maybe you operated the fuel levers and cut them off, or the engine parameters were in the red for too long. Generally, try to adjust the prop levers so that rpm is not in the red, On my system, I have to set them to about 80%.

Peter

Thanks for the quick answer, will check the levers better accordingly!

I've flown the King Air; and that doesn't fit that the engines would both quit on you at the same time unless you had fuel starvation.

Had you Leaned way too much and they ran out of donks as you came into lower altitude? You must have leaned them to almost the Stops.

Next question; What height were you at when they quit - and what height HAD you been at when you started your descent?

Prop Settings have got nothing to do with it - you can Feather the pair at FL180 and fly it right down to 50' over the numbers - you're not going to do a great landing - but the engines aren't going to quit.

Something else going on.

 

Edited May 3, 20215 yr by Will Fly For Cheese

Actually, we need more info to assess what it triggered that condition.

MS2020 engines as the aircraft flight charactersitics are poorley desighned and quite very unrealistic that could lead to unpredictable results.

 

If you pull to the stops the prop rpm it will feather the engines but it will not shut down the engines.

 

There is no such thing as "leaning" the engines in the King Air which have 3 positions, Cut-off, Low-Idle, and High-Idle. 

By moving the condition levers to Low-Idle, you set the engine to idle at a specific speed, moving them to High-Idle allows the engine to idle at a higher speed by introducing a greater constant fuel flow.

So, without any additional information if by mistake you pulled the condition levers to "cut-off" position that will kill the fuel supply to the engines, they will "quit".

Edited May 3, 20215 yr by killthespam