2 questions

[Chillspider]

:helpsmilie:I wanted to know about 2 things. First ive been flying this for couple weeks:thumbup: and untill 2 days ago i never had this problem but 3 times so far i was flying with no problems, came to a hover for lil bit then all of a sudden i dont have enough power to climb. My alt is 30 even when i turn hover mode off i still dont have much power. also i see two lights labeled LH and RH power set or reset something like that can someone tell me whats happening.

 

2nd when adding ext tanks to use them all i have to do is turn on the 2 ext pumps .. My friend was trying it out and out of no where his engines died and it was right around when he would have ran out of fuel without the tanks. I looked around the manual:book: but i just wanted to make sure i wasnt doing something wrong its easy to miss it in the manual:doh:

Edited January 12, 2009 by Chillspider

[d0ppler]

It sounds like you havent set engine power to AUTO (by hitting PageUp twice) during

start-up after your both engines have reached 70%.

 

Never tried flying with external tanks, so can't help you on that sorry.

Edited January 12, 2009 by d0ppler

[Chillspider]

Yes i had the engines on auto. Thats what i thought at first but it was fine. So i still am not sure whats causing the problem.

[sobek]

Did you, by chance, do a violent and abrubt maneuver to slow down that could have decayed rotor rpm? A track would be most useful. Maybe you flew around in your own dust cloud long enough without dust cyclone to fade the engines. Maybe you entered VRS. Like i said, plz provide a track.

Edited January 12, 2009 by sobek

[pitbull]

What is the outside temp in the mission?

 

This could be the result of an ice build-up the intakes, reducing the airflow to the turnines, hence the loss of power. Turn on engine anti-ice on the upper pannel. IIRC turn the anti-ice on below 5°C. Turn on rotor anti-ice and pitot heat at the same time. all on upper panel.

 

cheers!

[nemises]

As well as the external fuel pumps, you need to make sure the Cross feed valve (X-Feed) is on, which will "equalise" the fuel across the front and rear fuel tanks ...

I believe External fuel tanks on the outer pylons feed into the rear tank, and on the inner pylons feed into the front tank. Without the cross Feed valve on, fuel tanks on the outer pylons would fill the rear tank, but the front tank would still run dry and you'd lose an engine potencially.

[AlphaOneSix]

Crossfeed allows either forward or rear fuel tank to send fuel to either engine, but it does not allow them to share fuel between each other.

 

As for external tanks...tank on the left feed the rear tank, and tanks on the right feed the forward tank, so each tank would be getting filled simultaneously.

 

When you start running low on fuel, you will need to turn on crosfeed (if you haven't already) so that if your front tank empties, your rear tank will feed both engines until it's empty*, instead of losing an engine when the forward tank runs empty.

 

* I should probably point out that if your front tank runs out of fuel, your rear tank will only have enough fuel for about 2 minutes, so landing immediately would be a good idea. ;) You'll know your front fuel tank is empty when the front fuel pump fails.

Edited January 12, 2009 by AlphaOneSix

[Chillspider]

Looking for the track now . The weather was clear and warm . Was not in the mountains . I think your first though about slowing down a little aggressively is what happened.