lbellouny Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Last night I was participating in a multiplayer session with my group, I was up at 42000 feet, heading towards a group of bandits, when suddenly my right engine shutdown. There was at least 12k lbs of fuel, and trying to restart the engine would get it to light, I would increase throttle to match the left engine, and then it would shut down again. It was very similar to the engine not starting after being shot down bug, but I had not been shot down. I have the track, but it’s very large as this happened toward the end of a 2 hour mission. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Retired CO of the vCSG-3's VF-103 Jolly Rogers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconus Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 Do you have random failures option on? Did you touch any of the engine/fuel/ramp switches before the shutdown? Was prolonged negative G involved? Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX3060 Rift S T16000M TWCS TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbellouny Posted August 28, 2020 Author Share Posted August 28, 2020 (edited) Random Failures was off. Didn't touch any of those until I was trying to relight. No negative G, had the throttles up to try and keep around .8 IMN flying straight and level, and the right engine just suddenly died. Following the air start procedure, it would light off, then once the throttle was advanced, it would shut back down. Did this if the Feed switch was in the Forward, Aft, or Norm positions. I've attached the kneeboard page I was following to try and air start. Attempted both procedures on the page. Edited August 28, 2020 by lbellouny Adding additional information, grammar [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Retired CO of the vCSG-3's VF-103 Jolly Rogers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat creason Posted August 28, 2020 Share Posted August 28, 2020 There's not really enough information here to know exactly what's going on, but you need to maintain about 450 KIAS to affect a windmill start. Sounds like it could have been a fuel supply issue, that is really the only reason an F110 would just flame out. Systems Engineer & FM Modeler Heatblur Simulations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbellouny Posted August 29, 2020 Author Share Posted August 29, 2020 But what would’ve been the cause of the fuel supply issue? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Retired CO of the vCSG-3's VF-103 Jolly Rogers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzaiib Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 (edited) Same exact thing happened to me... right engine shut down after having been at 40k ft for no apparent reason. Landed, and even with ground air, i could not get it started. Could have been a compressor stall that damaged it? (I had descended VERY quickly in defense of incoming missiles) Edited August 30, 2020 by Banzaiib Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victory205 Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Same exact thing happened to me... right engine shut down after having been at 40k ft for no apparent reason. Landed, and even with ground air, i could not get it started. Could have been a compressor stall that damaged it? (I had descended VERY quickly in defense of incoming missiles) That’s pretty freaking cool. Welcome to the fighter business... Viewpoints are my own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat creason Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Really hard to say without more info. You're probably pulling neg G or have some other type of fuel supply issue to the engine. Systems Engineer & FM Modeler Heatblur Simulations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sublime Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 look at tutorials for airstarts. theres actually 3 or 4 different methods. most of us only know the windmill procedure. I dont remember the rest, but those are important to learn but without a track I dont know what happened =/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uxi Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 Following the air start procedure, it would light off, then once the throttle was advanced, it would shut back down. Did this if the Feed switch was in the Forward, Aft, or Norm positions. I've attached the kneeboard page I was following to try and air start. Attempted both procedures on the page. What other kneeboard pages do you have in there? Thinking of adding some/all of those in my own kneeboards. Specs & Wishlist: Core i9 9900k 5.0Ghz, Asus ROG Maximus XI Hero, 64GB G.Skill Trident 3600, Asus RoG Strix 3090 OC, 2TB x Samsung Evo 970 M.2 boot. Samsung Evo 860 storage, Coolermaster H500M, ML360R AIO HP Reverb G2, Samsung Odyssey+ WMR; VKB Gunfighter 2, MCG Pro; Virpil T-50CM v3; Slaw RX Viper v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbellouny Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 In my case, I was flying straight and level. With 11k pounds. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Retired CO of the vCSG-3's VF-103 Jolly Rogers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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