Opening aft equipment bay - engine oil fill - how?

[FYG001]

Need to top up the oil, but can't open the aft equipment bay. Handle is not clickable. Whatever I try. Latest beta version. 

Thanks for any help

Edited August 9, 2023 by FYG001
Added pic

[Pils]

Because it isn’t modelled.  Oil service is done via menu item.

[FYG001]

Aha! But clicking on the item in the ground services menu brings up a picture how to do it, doesn't top up? 

[Pils]

4 hours ago, FYG001 said:

Aha! But clicking on the item in the ground services menu brings up a picture how to do it, doesn't top up? 

You interact with the “picture” by clicking on it.

[FYG001]

Another 'aha' Erlebnis 

I will finally be able to get these oil pressure readings out of the red! 

Cheers 

Edited August 9, 2023 by FYG001

[FYG001]

Not there yet - replenishment tank empty, engines nowhere near full. How can I fill the replenishment tank?

 

Edit - Hotstart thought even about that! Btw to fill the tank, click on the cap on the tank on the approx 1 o'clock position

13 quarts in all - will avoid the maintenance dept for a while...

 

Edited August 9, 2023 by FYG001

[JRBarrett]

43 minutes ago, FYG001 said:

Not there yet - replenishment tank empty, engines nowhere near full. How can I fill the replenishment tank?

 

Edit - Hotstart thought even about that!

13 quarts in all - will avoid the maintenance dept for a while...

 

My experience on r/w CRJ-200s, which use the same engine as the CL650, is that each engine will consume about 1 quart of oil for every 8 flight hours. If you have been flying the Challenger a lot and never serviced the oil before, you might find it will take quite a bit to fill it the first time you do it.

Edited August 9, 2023 by JRBarrett

[FYG001]

Thanks, I flew the Chally a couple of hundred hours and never refilled. Lately I started getting occasionally high oil temperatures, and than on yesterday's flight warning oil pressure below 25psi. Time to take action! 

Amazing that Hotstart has modelled this oil consumption... 

[bpcw0001]

14 hours ago, FYG001 said:

Thanks, I flew the Chally a couple of hundred hours and never refilled. Lately I started getting occasionally high oil temperatures, and than on yesterday's flight warning oil pressure below 25psi. Time to take action! 

Amazing that Hotstart has modelled this oil consumption... 

I found the oil consumption of my current Hot Start crate to be quite high.
After about 6h air time each engine gulps a good quart of oil refill.
Got into the habit of checking on oil before each multi-leg day.

[JRBarrett]

14 hours ago, FYG001 said:

Thanks, I flew the Chally a couple of hundred hours and never refilled. Lately I started getting occasionally high oil temperatures, and than on yesterday's flight warning oil pressure below 25psi. Time to take action! 

Amazing that Hotstart has modelled this oil consumption... 

Your maintenance staff was probably topping off the oil on a regular basis during post flight inspections. That’s what we do at our operation. The engine does not actually “burn” the oil. The seven main engine bearings each sit in a chamber known as a “sump” which are pressurized by 7th stage bleed air. Each sump has rotating air/oil seals, but they do allow a little oil to bypass when the engine is running. It will come out of the drain mast located on the lower part of the jet pipe. Just a characteristic of the GE CF34  engine.

Our company also operates 3 Dassault Falcon 900s with Honeywell TFE731-60 engine. That engine model barely consumes any oil at all. We change the oil filters every 150 hours, and it is not unusual to not need to top off the oil at all between scheduled filter changes.

Edited August 10, 2023 by JRBarrett

[FYG001]

Rest assured, I was talking about my virtual Chally. I will find out what the RL oil consumption is on our Challenger.