engine instantly dies in airstart missions

[PawlaczGMD]

Needs to be air-started, or restarted on the ground. All training missions and so far 1st campaign mission had this problem.

JF DEAD.trk

[tekwoj]

7 hours ago, PawlaczGMD said:

Needs to be air-started, or restarted on the ground. All training missions and so far 1st campaign mission had this problem.

JF DEAD.trk 10.34 MB · 6 downloads

Do you have any mods installed? Are you running multithreaded version of DCS?

I've ran your track file, if I take over control before the view switches to plane, the engine works fine.

[Napillo]

It might also be your hotas setup. Make sure your switches for the engine are turned to the operating state.

[PawlaczGMD]

The only engine-related functions I have mapped is the engine idle cutoff on/off,  which my HOTAS has virtual buttons for. I will check this, but I have the same mapped for all other planes and it's fine. My throttle was forward when taking control.

I have A4C, UH-60 and clickable FC3 mods, and honestly I don't want to mess with them. I am running the MT version.

[tekwoj]

Do you have a bind for Fuel Pump and is it by chance close to speed up/down time? The only alarm lit up after the view swaps to the cockpit is Fuel Pump warning light.

[PawlaczGMD]

On 9/3/2024 at 5:54 PM, tekwoj said:

Do you have a bind for Fuel Pump and is it by chance close to speed up/down time? The only alarm lit up after the view swaps to the cockpit is Fuel Pump warning light.

No, but I think I figured it out. I have a dual throttle with idle on/off on each axis. I think that because JF17 is single engine, I had the throttles connected when binding, and idle on ended being on the right throttle, while idle off on the left. This caused some weird behavior. Not sure why this would shut down my engine on hotstart only (throttle positions were forward anyway), but I think it doesn't happen anymore.