noisy_lightning Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 I may misunderstand how this is meant to work so please help. I just finished a mission in which my left engine got hit, taking out the left generator. I also had to shut down the left engine. I used the gen tie to tie the left and right bus together but the only outcome was the loss of the left DDI and the MPCD. However the left gen caption never went out. Was this as a result of further battle damage or just me having it wrong in how the systems function? Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk
maxTRX Posted January 30, 2020 Posted January 30, 2020 I may misunderstand how this is meant to work so please help. I just finished a mission in which my left engine got hit, taking out the left generator. I also had to shut down the left engine. I used the gen tie to tie the left and right bus together but the only outcome was the loss of the left DDI and the MPCD. However the left gen caption never went out. Was this as a result of further battle damage or just me having it wrong in how the systems function? Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk From what I gather the reset/isolation process is automatic in flight (unless you yank the parking brake handle to on). If there is a fault in one of the generators and it trips the other generator's buses should pick up the load automatically (provided Gen Tie switch is on Normal). If the damaged circuits on the faulted gen. cause the other (good) generator to fault the 2 gens become isolated and the good generator resets and runs the good buses. Resetting Gen Tie manually can cause further damage to the good circuits. That's a quick summary from Natops. I haven't tested this part of DCS functionality yet... too busy with blowing stuff up.
Preendog Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 And I don't think the gen tie advisory on the DDI goes away until you flick a reset switch on the left panel near the throttle.
CBStu Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 You are lucky. 80% of the time I get all the wings etc blown off the plane and the remaining fuselage is spinning around like crazy. I am outside looking at it so I am dead. Just 20% of the time am I alive and able to eject. I can't remember a time when I had a plane w/ damage that was still flyable.
maxTRX Posted January 31, 2020 Posted January 31, 2020 You are lucky. 80% of the time I get all the wings etc blown off the plane and the remaining fuselage is spinning around like crazy. I am outside looking at it so I am dead. Just 20% of the time am I alive and able to eject. I can't remember a time when I had a plane w/ damage that was still flyable. Yep, when hit by a missile... bye bye. I did survive Igla hits many times though. One time gun boats gave me a pretty good work out. Bunch of systems were knocked out and my HUD froze up with pitch ladder stuck at 45'. DDI's went out and I didn't bother sorting out the failures, bunch of red and amber, fuel leak but no fire:cry: Brought her back to the boat on standby instruments for an imaginary barricade trap. Once the proper damage model (including cause and effect for all a/c systems) gets rolled out I'll probably get mere serious and study the emergency section of whatever manuals DCS includes. Some systems or parts of them could be functional already. That reminds me... I haven't done a cold start in a long time:noexpression: It's about time to test few things, starting with gen. resets, Gen Tie (since OP brought it up), etc.
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