haroldeh

Want to try out these mod's Bill has done but am getting a "whamil77 cannot receive messages" message trying to PM him here. Are these files publicly available somewhere? Harold

This problem has now happened to me 3 times consecutively flying KDAY-KLGA. Shutdown for me occurs a little over 1 hour into the flight and happens during descent. I was not using time compression. Before the third time, I saw this post and comments to use Fuel Heater, so I did that on the 3rd flight. I activated the fuel heaters before TOD, and my fuel temps were in the 20's when I started my VNAV descent from FL290. The shutdown happened around 17,000 ft. I paused the sim (P3Dv4) and took a lot of screen shots of the overhead, panel, and throttles. From these I could see that the Fuel Cutoff levers were in the OFF position. I still had a little over 3,000 pounds of fuel. I had flown 5 other routes (shorter flights) in the Southern US with no problem until having this happen consistently on the last three flights from/to low atmospheric temps. The Fuel Heater recommendation seemed reasonable, but I don't think that's the case. My controls are mapped through FSUIPC and I checked all controls (even those I never use) and none affected these levers, so I don't think it is anything I did or a control spike. Is there an automatic cascading shutdown that would move the fuel shutoff levers to off?

The docs mention a third tutorial featuring a longer flight and fuel management. When will that be available? Harold

I've encountered the same problem. Occurs when the temp drops to and just below freezing. Since I couldn't find any Carb Heat controls, I assumed these were fuel injected engines. If that's the case, shouldn't be encountering carb icing and shouldn't need to hit the "H" key. If these are not fuel injected engines, then we need Carb Heat controls.