Aileron PCU Yellow Symbol on Flight Control Page & PCU Failure Not Resetting Properly

[Wordpress]

When I pulled up the flight controls synoptics page, I noticed a yellow symbol on my right aileron. No failures at this point were turned on. As suggested in another post, hydraulics were on and cycled, aileron disconnect handle was pulled and then stowed. My ailerons worked just fine and I had no CAS messages.

I then decided to set failures for left and right aileron PCU jams and tried to reset them to see if maybe that would reset the fault. After resetting the failures however, this only gave me my aileron indications back, but now both sides had the same yellow symbol and the "AILERON PCU" amber CAS message appeared.

To be clear, the ailerons work just fine.

Edited January 12, 2022 by Wordpress

[Wordpress]

After shutting down the airplane completely and restarting it, everything seems to be normal.

[Graeme_77]

That’s interesting. Was seen once in testing, but was unable to replicate despite many attempts. If you get it again, steps to reproduce (if you can remember) would be helpful to try and diagnose.

And to be clear, to fix you shutdown the Challenger avionics and power, or reloaded via X-Plane? 

[Wordpress]

16 minutes ago, Graeme_77 said:

That’s interesting. Was seen once in testing, but was unable to replicate despite many attempts. If you get it again, steps to reproduce (if you can remember) would be helpful to try and diagnose.

And to be clear, to fix you shutdown the Challenger avionics and power, or reloaded via X-Plane? 

If it happens again, I'll try my best to give steps to reproduce, but I'm honestly not sure how I did this. The only way I can reproduce this is to manually set a PCU jam failure and reset that failure through the failure menu.

I restarted X-Plane and that removed the CAS message associated with the failure menu, but not the indications on the synoptics page. To remove the entirety of the failure (CAS and amber synoptics), I had to shut down the aircraft fully, removing AC and DC power. Once I powered on the aircraft again, I had normal indications on the flight controls synoptics page.

Edited January 12, 2022 by Wordpress

[Graeme_77]

Thanks for the feedback. Yes the avionics are non-volatile so a power down of the simulated systems is needed, even after a sim restart.