I cannot start the engines of this mod. I’m doing exacly what the guide says. Even watched some YouTube videos.
The engine starts to crank, the “firing up” sound begins but it lasts a second or less - the cranking start sound begins again, and the engine dies.
I’m lost…
Did you check the engine oil levels prior? Sometimes that is the issue
Yes, my oil levels were very low (never imagined that it will be so low in the very first time I used the mod).
Thank you!
The developer does that to let you know he’s not messing around
My first reaction would be to apply full carb heat to see if it changed anything. It’s tough to say looking at the screenshot but it is a good guess.
Did you apply the fix mentioned in post 516?
I tried this, but it doesn’t work. The engines will not start at all then, not automatically after loading onto the runway, not with Ctrl-E and not manually.
I’m sorry that didn’t work. I’m prety sure I can find a solution but I’m going on holidays for 3 weeks.
Only after I can help you.
Excellent, you deserve it. Enjoy your holidays!
I decided to have an endurance flight today. I ran the aux tanks dry, restarted the engines, and ran the mains dry. I was still about 300 miles short of my destination. Additionally I noticed that the flight was only three hours. I was expecting to get another couple of hours at 150 MPH IAS. Oh, and when your flight fuel computer says there is ten minutes of fuel left… There really isn’t.
I am really enjoying the technical aspect of flying the Beech 18 with the Mod. It’s like having a new aircraft to master. I am a huge fan of the radials.
I have noticed since the mod, that fuel consumption is much more of an issue. I wonder where all the aviation rags get that it can fly 1200 miles and 8 hours. I looked at the charts here and I can pretty much recreate the fuel flows shown. Based on capacity, I cannot see how they get that performance. BTW, thanks for fixing the fuel gauges! You’ll have to excuse me now. I have to go explain to some farmer in Iowa that I plowed his field.
Perhaps at very high altitudes and very economical engine settings, ie below the published book figures, by leaning the mixture and reducing RPM considerably? I haven’t played around with it myself, just speculating.
Most I can get is short of 1,000 nm at 10,000 feet at ~145 kts ground speed and short of 30 gal per hour. This is pretty much according to the POH I use. To get it I had to change the fuel_flow_scalar to 0.7 from 1.18.
What settings are you using for RPM and manifold?
1800-1900 RPM and 21-23 MP. Mixture LOP.
I will do a video on my next flight.
Do you have a link to the POH you’re using? Best I can find is an Army manual that seems to want RPM down to 1600 for that sort of range.
Hence why he set the fuel flow is at .8
You mentioned 1,200 nm range. That’s probably with a variant that has the nose fuel tank installed.
I don’t have a link for the POH I’m using, it’s this one:
Here’s the endurance chart:
