May 7, 20251 yr I just posted this on Fenix discord. Avsim insight appreciated also. TIA, -B QUESTION ABOUT FAILURES: Howdy, I’ve been flying them Fenix since it’s day 1. In all those years and hundreds of hours I’ve never experienced a failure. I suspect it’s because I never activated failures, but regardless failures never desired/experienced. Today flying a two hour jaunt (KSEA/KLAS) in FS2024 I left the plane unattended and made some breakfast to consume before returning to flight. Heading upstairs to my office I heard the unmistakable “ding, ding, ding” of a master warning. Glancing down at the panel I quickly discerned I had suffered a catastrophic cabin depressurization. All PAX on O2, Emergency landing needed. So my question is how did this happen? Random occurrence or bug, again stating I never asked for failures nor have I ever experienced one prior to today. TIA,
May 7, 20251 yr 2 hours ago, btacon said: I just posted this on Fenix discord. Avsim insight appreciated also. TIA, -B QUESTION ABOUT FAILURES: Howdy, I’ve been flying them Fenix since it’s day 1. In all those years and hundreds of hours I’ve never experienced a failure. I suspect it’s because I never activated failures, but regardless failures never desired/experienced. Today flying a two hour jaunt (KSEA/KLAS) in FS2024 I left the plane unattended and made some breakfast to consume before returning to flight. Heading upstairs to my office I heard the unmistakable “ding, ding, ding” of a master warning. Glancing down at the panel I quickly discerned I had suffered a catastrophic cabin depressurization. All PAX on O2, Emergency landing needed. So my question is how did this happen? Random occurrence or bug, again stating I never asked for failures nor have I ever experienced one prior to today. TIA, You sure you closed the doors? Or perhaps someone else (kid?cat?) pressed a button on the keyboard while you were away? 9800X3d, 4090, 64 GB DDR5 6000 RAM, 4 TB NVME (2x2), 4K Ultra + Framegen
May 7, 20251 yr Exactly! Do you have a cat in the cockpit?? Because I do... and sometimes things happen 🙂 Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
May 7, 20251 yr Author To Jonathan and Jcomm, thank you both. No cats, no kids at home (got 4 youngest is 33). Closing the door might be a possibility except in this flight I spawned on RWY 34R wanting a load n’ go quick flight. Well quick it was LoL. A quick death for all my PAX in the back 😢 -B
May 8, 20251 yr 4 hours ago, btacon said: A quick death for all my PAX in the back Pretty painless, too. As long as you're able to exhale carbon dioxide, hypoxia is a very painless way to go. In fact, it feels great. In high-altitude training, they teach you to recognize that euphoria or unexplained feelings of wellbeing and contentment are signs of danger... You can experience it in high-altitude test chambers. They pull out the atmosphere until you're up to 35,000 feet and then you take off your mask. You feel normal for a bit, and then you feel REALLY good, and that's the sign that it's time to put the masks back on. If you're slow about it, you realize you forgot how to put the oxygen mask on, and then you even forget what it's for... but you're still euphoric. Then right after that, it's lights out! Edited May 8, 20251 yr by prolixindec
May 8, 20251 yr I think this may be a known fault that Fenix are aware of. Discord may have given you the answer by now. The FAQs may give it a mention. Rob Jones.
May 8, 20251 yr Did the failures module actually show a specific system as having failed? If so, which one? If not, did you figure out the cause for the depressurization? (Couple more things I can think of: Packs off takeoff and forgot to turn packs back on? Cabin pressurization inadvertently set to manual?)
May 8, 20251 yr Author 3 hours ago, jonesrob said: I think this may be a known fault that Fenix are aware of. Discord may have given you the answer by now. The FAQs may give it a mention. TY. I will peruse the FAQ 2 hours ago, martinboehme said: Did the failures module actually show a specific system as having failed? If so, which one? If not, did you figure out the cause for the depressurization? (Couple more things I can think of: Packs off takeoff and forgot to turn packs back on? Cabin pressurization inadvertently set to manual?) Hmmm. A clue! I do remember a warning about overheated Packs whilst on the RWY setting up my flight. To be truthful I merely cleared the Faults away and merrily pressed on. A ship of DOOM it seems 😎 1 hour ago, ah2511 said: Accidental tail strike on departure? This has happened to me. Another possibility. All good questions. All good sleuthing from each and all who responded. As I have no ability for further investigation I declare this as ”Case Closed”. Thanks to ALL -B
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