Sudden loss of engine RPM when hovering

[manne]

I've been trying the Courier mission again lately, and everytime when I'm waiting at the UAZ to receive the package my Rotor RPM and my engine 1 turbine RPM drops rapidly, making the bird crash to the ground. Then I get the message: check main transmission.

 

I have Dust protectors on and I am hovering 3 or more p above the ground (manually, not using Hover mode). I don't know what's happening, I'm trying again and again but it always happens just when I receive the confirmation that the driver is still OK.

 

Anyone knows what's going on?

Edited July 25, 2010 by manne

[Nate--IRL--]

Can you post the track? Usually it's lastmission.trk in the temp folder.

 

Nate

[manne]

Here is the track.

courier.trk

[Insanatrix]

You ran out of fuel

[winz]

This mission aims to teach you one thing -

Check your fuel before lift off ;)

 

edit: Sniped :P

[manne]

To talk in popular internet language: OMG

 

Are you guys serious?? That is embarrassing :D

[Insanatrix]

Yeah your Ekran was warning you forward tank was below 110. I think aft tank is bigger so thats why you lose 1 engine first, the other one is still running on vapor.

[Nate--IRL--]

Heheh. Happens to us all, at least once :)

 

Nate

[winz]

Heheh. Happens to us all, at least once :)

 

Nate

Exactly :D

The same place, tha same mission :)

[Insanatrix]

Never played the mission but I have run out of fuel before because of leaks and not paying attention.

[einar-st]

Hehe.. they do mention in the beginning of the mission that they didn't have time to refuel the bird, but did get you a pair of extra external fuel tanks.

[Insanatrix]

I think I saw them on there however if you don't flip up the pump switches for them they won't function.

[Martillo1]

And when low on fuel don't forget to turn on the X-feed valve.

[Frederf]

Without the electric fuel booster pumps the mechanical engine-driven pumps should work fine but there's no reason not to have the electric pumps on. Also note that the fuel gauge needles are reversed even in version 1.02. There's an LUA edit to correct this.

[manne]

Strange thing is that I remember playing this mission about a year back and that I didn't refuel at the start location, and made it all the way to the ship (where I crashed the bird trying to land on it :P).

[DTWD]

Hahahaha

 

This happened to me yesterday and I was about to post about it (different mission) and now I saw this I am glad I didn't :D

 

However that said one time I could say this was fuel related, the other time, not sure, I was about 20 minutes into the mission in a hover and puff, "elec on acum" and the ground fast approaching.

 

Can you get fuel leaks from damage? I don't think I took any hits, but since they altered the sound engine I am not always aware of getting hit.

[MTFDarkEagle]

Also note that the fuel gauge needles are reversed even in version 1.02. There's an LUA edit to correct this.

Reversed? How do you mean?

[DTWD]

Reversed? How do you mean?

 

The needles don't match the tanks, in other words, aft if is infact front etc. As far as I understand it anyway.

[Scooternutz]

This post is a great example of why we fly this amazing sim!

[bumfire]

The needles don't match the tanks, in other words, aft if is infact front etc. As far as I understand it anyway.

 

yea, they are back to front, however I fixed it, not sure if you saw the thread that had the fix available, if you never saw it, here it is;

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=927779&postcount=11

 

basically, it just means putting the tanks in their correct numbered order.

 

137 and 138

 

just reverse those numbers for the tanks affected, so if forward tanks is number 137 and rear tank is 138, then change the numbers so that rear tank is 137 and forward tank is 138 and the guages ingame will be correct, works perfect.

Edited July 26, 2010 by bumfire