airdaleret Posted January 22, 2014 Report Posted January 22, 2014 On several flights I have created and activated the engines have just plain shutdown.1. a flight from KPIA (Peoria, IL) to KGGG (Longview,TX) the engines quit about the middle of Arkansas.2. a flight from KGGG (Longview,TX) to KTYR (Tyler, TX) the engines quit a short time into the flight.3. a local flight at KGGG to find out what is going wrong. The engines quit on final ILS to KGGG.4. A lcal KGGG again to try and find what is causing the problem. Took off on Runway 13 and climbed heading to 2500' and turned 180 to heading 310 . The aircraft settled on heading and the engines quit. I restarted the engines and complete the flight to an ILS landing at KGGG. This has been going on since I re-installed the aircraft, four flights and four engine failures. Quote
TheSlasher Posted January 22, 2014 Report Posted January 22, 2014 When you are in the air and you are heading towards your cruising altitude, do you delete the thrust limits in your fms? One time I forgot to, and the engines turned off in mid air Quote
SwissCyul Posted January 22, 2014 Report Posted January 22, 2014 Or did you even set the thrust limit? If not the engines will overheat. Quote
airdaleret Posted January 23, 2014 Author Report Posted January 23, 2014 Thanks, I will make sure I am setting the thrust limits from now on out, however, I have been careful to keep my engines below the 100% mark and the engines were operating about 60-65% at the times of two of the failures. The others I don't know because I was not watching the engine dial on those flights. This last flight the engines quit when the plane went into one of the pitch oscillations and this failure could be expected. anfd that is another sore spot because if you try the User modification autopilot fix the plane only has the default livery and you have to get other files transferred in order for the aircraft to fly. Seems to me this has not been well put together. Is there a particular reason that this was allowed to remain? Although I am not a pilot I did spend a few years as an aircrewman on Navy Sp2h Neptune Patrol aircraft. Being an Aircraft electrician I can remember having to adjust an autopilot controller because the aircraft gained some altitude when the plane made an autopilot controlled turn so I know these are not appreciated by pilots. Quote
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