Whenever I fly long distance missions with the De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver, near the end, I lose engine power and the oil pressure light is on. I previously had an issue where there wasn’t enough fuel, which was fixed by the shortcut that allows you to add fuel, so that’s not what’s happening this time.
I try and fly with around 1800 RPMs - I had the throttle and propellers in the blue pretty much all along (besides when climbing to readjust). I’ve had pretty much all my longer missions with that plane result in engine failures and I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong.
Any tips to avoid this from happening? Because when it does, after flying for 40 plus minutes (without autopilot because I can’t find a heading knob on the control panel and it just doesn’t fly straight), it’s quite annoying being unable to finish (can’t make it to land even if I skip to the landing part)
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Also, for some reason, fuel mixture doesn’t seem to be handled automatically on this plane, even if I have the assist on (stays at rich) - so I tried to lean it when I reached my cruising altitude (ChatGPT has been my only source so far haha), still the same result.
Perhaps it needs to stay rich and then I have to just add more fuel?
The same thing just happened to me, although 10 minutes after takeoff. I landed on a beach and thought I handled it pretty well, thinking it was part of the mission, but it failed me and the mission disappeared. Oh well.
What I can suggest, and what I didn’t do this time, is follow the built-in checklists on the EFB. The more detailed, the better. The Cessna 172s, for example, default to left fuel selector on at start-up, and following the checklists tells you to verify that fuel selector is set to “both” before takeoff. Not doing so causes a fuel tank imbalance. I can only assume there is a switch or lever that is in the wrong position by default that may be causing these issues, and the game is checking that we’re following procedures correctly.
Hi! I had a similar issue. After a short research I found out that some of the planes (DHC-2 and xcub included) have multiple fuel tanks. DHC-2 has 3 of them, managed manually. Some times when you spawn for a mission you got 35 to 50% of fuel distributed around 3 fuel tanks (front, central and back). You can monitor a fuel level if you zoom in into the gauge in the central part of the cabin (round with 3 gauges, one for each tank). When you will start running out of fuel the fuel pressure will drop, dropping the rpms and oil pressure. The solution is to switch to another tank (red handle of the left bottom of the cabin). Note: the fuel pressure won’t be restored immediately. Restart the engine with electric fuel pump if needed. This helped me, hopefully it helps you too.
The problem of the OP was the oil pressure (and therefore likely the amount of oil left in the engine), not the amount of fuel.
@BoromirStark620 if I remember correctly, there’s a port on the island for putting in oil. Is there any provision for filling it, either in flight or in the (any of?) the EFB('s)? I haven’t tried the plane yet. Radials are notorious for slinging their oil around, so deHavilland Canada kindly included a port in the cockpit for adding more oil in flight in case it was required. It’s possible you didn’t start the flight with enough oil (assuming there’s even a provision for filling it at any point).
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