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Tested in multiple configurations.
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The aircraft is flying smoothly until at some point the engines are shutting down and the aircraft starts to dive towards the ground,Fuel is no problem see screenshot
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I just flew normally, here was encountered at the T/D but usually between cruise and descent
PC specs and/or peripheral set up if relevant:
I5 9400F
RTX3070
Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
Lastest 22/12/2022
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The same happened to me many times until I figured out what was happening.
It turned out to be a glitch with my Thrustmaster TCA quadrant. Something happend with the USB connection (maybe a bad contact, maybe an electrical noise, I´m not sure) which caused it to disconnect and reconnect almost inmediatelly.
The disruption lasted less than one second, but it was enough for the mail fuel switches in the pedestal (binded to the physical switches in the quadrant) to recycle off and on. It could be heard also, preceding disaster. It was a very short glitch, but caused both engines to shut down, and electrical power to be lost inmediately. The aircraft went out of control exactly the same way as in your screenshots.
I have been unable to fix it, but I prevented the aircraft from going out of control by keeping the engine start panel to continuous relight. That way when the fuel switches come back on, the engines don´t shut down, and the glitch with the quadrant does not cause any problems.
Maybe you can check if something similar is happening in your aircraft before it goes down.
Hope this helps…
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Hi, this just started happening to me today. Does that mean my throttle is becoming bad?
Not necessarily.
In fact, there was nothing wrong with my cuadrant itself, only with the USB extension cable, and its physical routing to the computer.
It turned out that on it´s way to the computer´s CPU, just by chance, this cable run parallel and almost in contact with a power line. Sometimes, when the load of this power line (an electric heater) turned on or off, the current inrush caused an electric noise, and for some reason, my computer reacted to that as if the quadrant was disconnected and reconnected again.
Just by routing the USB cable away from the power line, the problem was fixed, and later, I bought a higher quality, well shielded USB extension cable. Never had this problem again.
Hope this helps, and something similarly simple is happening to you.
Best regards.
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I just want to add - I had something similar happen, but in my case it was due to the fact that I had the mixture binding set to an axis that was noisy on my X52. This meant that, at random, the engines would die because the game would receive a signal from that axis and interpret it as cutting the mixture. That would cause the engines to shut down. Dead zones and making sure I left the mixture axis on full fixed it for me.
I get a total loss of power (all screens go black) and when cut off outer tanks selectors when there is fuel in the inner tanks left, all power is lost and the plane goes of control. And down ill go… .
