How on earth do you get rid of failures?  I spawned in at the gate and stuff just keeps failing and I can't figure out how to shut them off.  Random failures are NONE so I don't know why this is happening.  I've lost a fuel pump, CVR, and a few other things so far.

32 minutes ago, flyinion said:

How on earth do you get rid of failures?  I spawned in at the gate and stuff just keeps failing and I can't figure out how to shut them off.  Random failures are NONE so I don't know why this is happening.  I've lost a fuel pump, CVR, and a few other things so far.

Haha, on my first ever flight I got a full failure of the ELEC 2 system.  Definitely not wanted on my first flight!  The failure settings are in the MCDU; but I checked they were turned off.  Unsure why I got the random ELEC failure, but we still made it down safely. 😎   I hope failures won't always be a random event that can't be avoided, as they're just not my bag.

Edited May 20, 20224 yr by JYW

1 hour ago, flyinion said:

How on earth do you get rid of failures?  I spawned in at the gate and stuff just keeps failing and I can't figure out how to shut them off.  Random failures are NONE so I don't know why this is happening.  I've lost a fuel pump, CVR, and a few other things so far.

I hear you! Goodness, took me ages to get the flight set up and after takeoff had a random AP1 fail! How to turn them off is the mystery eh!

1 hour ago, flyinion said:

How on earth do you get rid of failures?  I spawned in at the gate and stuff just keeps failing and I can't figure out how to shut them off.  Random failures are NONE so I don't know why this is happening.  I've lost a fuel pump, CVR, and a few other things so far.

If you spawned at the gate cold and dark and then turn the batteries you will get failure messages because the engines aren't running yet. Buttons may show FAIL and the screens may show fail messages. However, those aren't failures as in 'something is going terribly wrong! We are going to die!'. This is normal as long as you haven't started the engines yet. After setting up the plane and starting the engines all those messages should have disappeared. These messages simply show you some things haven't started up yet.

Method 1: Go to maintenance, select the category of failure, and call maintenance to come fix it.

Method 2: Load any panel state. 

I haven't found a PMDG style "clear all failures" yet. But I also haven't RTFM. Just what I learned after 30 minutes of messing around 

21 minutes ago, tup61 said:

If you spawned at the gate cold and dark and then turn the batteries you will get failure messages because the engines aren't running yet. Buttons may show FAIL and the screens may show fail messages. However, those aren't failures as in 'something is going terribly wrong! We are going to die!'. This is normal as long as you haven't started the engines yet. After setting up the plane and starting the engines all those messages should have disappeared. These messages simply show you some things haven't started up yet.

No this was my second load of the aircraft. Both times to a default state of running. Including engines

Just now, WestAir said:

Method 1: Go to maintenance, select the category of failure, and call maintenance to come fix it.

Method 2: Load any panel state. 

I haven't found a PMDG style "clear all failures" yet. But I also haven't RTFM. Just what I learned after 30 minutes of messing around 

Tried that. All it did was load the new state with the failures still.  The only thing I did was go to the random failures and I was clicking on Trigger to see what it toggled to.  Maybe it actually inserted random failures.  This is why I wish their documentation wasn't a 13 page feature description with no actual info on using this stuff

I get home in 4 to 6 hours. I'll poke the devs in the discord and get back to you.

55 minutes ago, WestAir said:

Method 1: Go to maintenance, select the category of failure, and call maintenance to come fix it.

Method 2: Load any panel state. 

I haven't found a PMDG style "clear all failures" yet. But I also haven't RTFM. Just what I learned after 30 minutes of messing around 

Quite hard to RTFM when there isn't really one! I deliberately created a random failure through the MCDU (it failed a fuel pump), then on stand cleared it the way you said through the Maintenance section of the MCDU. You have to tell them to diagnose and wait first, before you can instruct a repair.

Edited May 20, 20224 yr by ckyliu

4 hours ago, flyinion said:

Tried that. All it did was load the new state with the failures still.  The only thing I did was go to the random failures and I was clicking on Trigger to see what it toggled to.  Maybe it actually inserted random failures.  This is why I wish their documentation wasn't a 13 page feature description with no actual info on using this stuff

So I checked with the discord, and Aamir was troubleshooting this with another customer. You should be able to turn off a failure just as easily as you can activate it, much like Aamir did during his feature videos a few months back. We may be looking at a bug, I think.

2 hours ago, WestAir said:

So I checked with the discord, and Aamir was troubleshooting this with another customer. You should be able to turn off a failure just as easily as you can activate it, much like Aamir did during his feature videos a few months back. We may be looking at a bug, I think.

Hmm maybe because for instance I had a fuel pump fail and in the fuel submenu where it lists the pumps I could LSK a non-failed one and go into a submenu to set fail options.  The failed one, the LSK's did nothing.

Well, I think I figure out how I got into the mess last night.  It was clicking "Trigger" in the Random Failures menu.  I thought it was a toggle for some reason like toggling between "RANDOM" and something else.  Still, seems the only way to disable a failure like this is the maintenance thing, or exiting and restarting the flight also worked.

Edited May 20, 20224 yr by flyinion

3 hours ago, WestAir said:

So I checked with the discord, and Aamir was troubleshooting this with another customer. You should be able to turn off a failure just as easily as you can activate it, much like Aamir did during his feature videos a few months back. We may be looking at a bug, I think.

Also had 2 failures on taxi out, I've submitted a ticket.

On 5/20/2022 at 1:39 PM, flyinion said:

Well, I think I figure out how I got into the mess last night.  It was clicking "Trigger" in the Random Failures menu.  I thought it was a toggle for some reason like toggling between "RANDOM" and something else.  Still, seems the only way to disable a failure like this is the maintenance thing, or exiting and restarting the flight also worked.

Just saw this on discord: When you load at the gate, reselect your preferred panel state, and you should be able to toggle a failure off and on as would be expected. Should also clear up other issues too.

I won't be able to test for another week, but thought I'd pass this along.

Edited May 23, 20224 yr by WestAir

On 5/20/2022 at 7:39 PM, flyinion said:

It was clicking "Trigger" in the Random Failures menu.  I thought it was a toggle for some reason like toggling between "RANDOM" and something else.

Haha. Same here. Thought to be able to toggle to „mean time to failure“ option which I did not find so far and ended up with some IRS alignment failures. Except that I did not know how to repair that. Well, I did call maintenance for the Navigation Repair option but no help. Unless IRS is not under navigation but any other of the zillion repair options?