Stretch Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 So some triple-A pockmarked my left wing; I look behind it for a visual inspection and notice I'm trailing a thin white line of wispy smoke, emanating from the middle of my left wing... My first thought was immediately fuel leak, as that stuff can look like white smoke when aerosolized, but my fuel gauge showed no abnormal discrepancy between my left and right wing tanks. I also checked the left engine oil pressure and left hydraulic pressure -- not out of the ordinary. I lost my right engine shortly thereafter thanks to a SAM, and had to limp back to base. I continued to keep an eye on these 3 gauges for the remainder of my egress, but the left engine continued to plug along just fine until I shut it down on the tarmac. Ideas on what happened? Alas, I didn't think to save a track. :( Tim "Stretch" Morgan 72nd VFW, 617th VFS Other handles: Strikeout (72nd VFW, 15th MEU Realism Unit), RISCfuture (BMS forums) PC and Peripherals: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/RISCfuture/saved/#view=DMp6XL Win10 x64 — BMS — DCS — P3D
Succellus Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 As it is beta, is the fuel leak due to damge totally implemented ? HaF 922, Asus rampage extreme 3 gene, I7 950 with Noctua D14, MSI gtx 460 hawk, G skill 1600 8gb, 1.5 giga samsung HD. Track IR 5, Hall sensed Cougar, Hall sensed TM RCS TM Warthog(2283), TM MFD, Saitek pro combat rudder, Cougar MFD.
Blaze Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 Had a fuel leak last night thanks to a ZSU-23-4. Didn't have time to check the gauge though. i7 7700K | 32GB RAM | GTX 1080Ti | Rift CV1 | TM Warthog | Win 10 "There will always be people with a false sense of entitlement. You can want it, you can ask for it, but you don't automatically deserve it. "
Tracer2k Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 I believe i have had a fuel leak drain my tank. WOOOOoooooo ------------------------------------------------------ AMD Phenom II x6 1090T 3.2GHz Black edition 8GB DDR3 1333 GeForce GTX580 Windows 7 64bit ------------------------------------------------------
gazcrowbar Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 Yer I had similar leak, with right wing, no change in any gauges - so guess it's the beta?
rexehuk Posted October 20, 2010 Posted October 20, 2010 Also had this... blew my fuel lines to crap and lost 50% power in right engine while fuel was spewing from my wings, eventually the engine ran dry and shut down which was not a good day.
Headspace Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 My first thought was immediately fuel leak, as that stuff can look like white smoke when aerosolized, but my fuel gauge showed no abnormal discrepancy between my left and right wing tanks. I also checked the left engine oil pressure and left hydraulic pressure -- not out of the ordinary. It's the white smoke inside your wires that runs the electricity. Now that it's leaked out all the circuits will die.
Slatz Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 It's the white smoke inside your wires that runs the electricity. Now that it's leaked out all the circuits will die. LOL yep thats what it was. we tell are customers that when ever they have an electrical problem:thumbup:
Tracer2k Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 It's the white smoke inside your wires that runs the electricity. Now that it's leaked out all the circuits will die. you mean the similar smoke that engines run also with? engines use black smoke though, but they mostly shut down too when the smoke gets out. WOOOOoooooo ------------------------------------------------------ AMD Phenom II x6 1090T 3.2GHz Black edition 8GB DDR3 1333 GeForce GTX580 Windows 7 64bit ------------------------------------------------------
nomdeplume Posted October 21, 2010 Posted October 21, 2010 It might depend where you're hit; I've definitely had the fuel gauges go down asymmetrically after being hit and leaking fuel. It did however seem like the wrong gauge was going down. Edit: didn't save the track, but I did take a screenshot. The stream was coming out of the left wing, and I got the warning light about low fuel for the left tanks first. When that came on I activated the cross-feed and the fuel levels balanced out.
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