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What I said about the pilot not dieing in the vid was in regards to getting hit with ordinance, I know the ground sure can kill them if you eject the wrong direction.... I thought I knew which bridge you were talking about so I wanted to try out the whole bridge jumping idea. I wasn't fond of having to fly a ka-50, so I just landed an a-10 on the road\bridge. I ejected and tried to jump off the bride, but it wasn't happening. I could get his body almost completely off the side but he was getting hung on something. Where's the bridge you are referring to?

Gotcha. Then I'm with you on your earlier statement... If you actually have to recover from this situation, the question is why the hell would you fly inverted for so long (not that I think the OP was doing it on accident)?

I assume that he was inducing the failure to practice an in flight restart, judging from his track I believe that to be the case. It is fool proof way of getting the engines to die mid flight, but so is pulling both T-handles. Either way, I do this stuff for practice as well. I'm sure it wouldn't be looked so kindly upon in real life, but that's what sims are for. :smilewink:

I figured. I just don't like to make any assumptions without knowing for sure.

Sorry about the late reply. A couple things I noticed: Once you shut the engines down, powered up the APU and APU GEN and motored the left engine, you moved the left engine to idol and the the right engine to idol shortly after. You can only start one at a time (unless you are doing a windmill restart). The biggest thing I noticed is that you were in a rush, I know it's a little concerning that you have two engines not producing thrust, but you need to slow down and follow the steps. I believe you actually had the left engine started toward the end and ended up killing it by moving the throttle forward too soon. I let your track run again right up until the engines failed, then I took over and restarted both engines. I'll post the track in a bit so you can watch how I did it. Just keep in mind that I have a second monitor and a TM WH, so it doesn't really even look like I look at the gauges or switches much, so you probably should hit F2 and then back to F1 so you can pan around the cockpit and see what I'm doing. If you need, we could get on ts\vent\steam and I could walk you through it in game, just PM me. Track added. One thing to note, tracks don't always play back correctly when I record them on my machine. So If I appear to say, not even try to start engines and fly into the side of a mountain... that's probably why. I did watch it and it replayed fine on my machine though. Hope it helps. inversion recover.trk

From what you asked, it looks like you tried to motor both engines at the same time, don't. The APU doesn't appear (at least in the sim) to be able to motor both engines at the same time. Just motor the engine you want to start first, but remember it isn't even necessary unless the ITT (temp gauge) is below ~150. This is just for your specific situation though, the engines have been drained of fuel from being inverted, so the only other thing to motor for is to cool it. So in your situation: 1. Set both throttles to OFF. 2. APU and APU Gen to ON. 3. Make sure you wait for the APU RPM to get to at least %60 before proceeding, otherwise the ignition signal may be interrupted. 4. Motor your left engine until ITT is less than 150. 5. Set your left engine to IDLE (I think its alt-home), switch engine operation to norm(turn off motor). That will begin the automatic start sequence. 6. After the left engine is up, motor the right. 7. Right engine will probably be cool by now, if so set the right throttle to IDLE and engine operate to norm.