Description of the issue:
I did my 10 arial firefighting missions finally. Then I unlocked the LA extended attack tutorial mission. As soon as I get to the fire my plane says “engine malfuction”. This will then lead to the plane not taking off again after scooping making the mission impossible to complete.
First time I got a red ! that I should repair my freelancer firefighting plane (which I did) Restarted sim but still the engine malfuction happens again.
[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
I dont use any addons
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
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two times already
REPRODUCTION STEPS
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start arial FF- extende attack mission in LA
take off
fly to fire
“engine malfuction” happens
YOUR SETTINGS
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no
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4080
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• Very similar issue, I can get to the fire and complete the first drop, after scooping water I get the engine malfunction as described by OP
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I don’t believe this is a bug, but rather simulated engine wear in the career. Are you full throttling the engine all the time? If you venture outside of the green on torque, rpm, and/or ITT for too long, you’ll cause engine damage.
Thanks for the responses. It is in career yes but please read. Its in the tutorial mission. Once it was close to the fire once at take off after I repaired my owned (different plane type entirely).
And if its not a bug why does it happen only to this plane? because I run mostly all planes at 100% throttle for most of the flights. And in this mission (tutorial) which is I assume complete new plane it happens after max 3min flight time?
If A Plane cant handle 5min at max throttle then the engine needs to be redesigned. What is this building a car with 6 gears and if you put it in 6 it explodes?
I can’t get it to take off at full throttle with a full tank of water even with the engines full throttled. Am I doing something wrong? I also damaged my engine, but it’s not my owned plane, so I’m not terribly worried about it at this point.
The engine got damaged just while trying to take off again after scooping a full tank.
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2 notches of flaps down are needed to take off from water at full capacity, but it does require torque on yellow and eventually itt in red zone, unless there is a trick to avoid it. This leads to engine malfunction, not sure this is realistic. I will try again by scooping very carefully at high speed, but it look like we need a full official lesson or tutorial on this one.
Is there anyone been able to complete this mission?
The engine malfunction is appearing always even taking proper care of RPM and engine. I’ve been just about to complete it using the alt+n but is impossible to take off from water with tanks full. Will try with less water later
I just don’t fill the last notch unless I have burned enough fuel to carry that weight in water, not sure if it’s accurate to irl or not. In fact my issue with fire missions is that I put out these fires too fast. The game wants me to do 5 drops but I put out all the fire it wanted in 4 so the mission glitches and I can not finish this way right. But I have no issue with my plane. But it seems I can not find a bug report on my issue because seems most are burning up their engines first lmao.
So you don’t fill it all the way, do you just fly back to the fire approach and it tells you where they want the next drop? I tried to take off early once and they said to refill with water and the objective wouldn’t change to going back to the approach.
I did exactly that and finally was able to complete the mission, but guess what… the game crashed after giving the reward, luckily it was accepted as completed
Ive taken off with about 80% thrust, and even lowered throttle in route to the fire and Im still getting engine malfunctions. Ive tried a few times now at different engine settings and nothing works. Theres no way this would happen in real life with under 80% throttle en route to a fire you loose both engines.
I am NOT red lining anything. it seems to be a massive bug
For people having problems with engine malfunctions try this:
-switch the engine de-ice mode to off
-toggle the 4 blead air switches to normal
Did this and the engine didn’t malfunction and the acceleration felt faster. Not sure if it was just luck or actually a fix.
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I get that . I try to back off to avoid the engine damage. The problem is after filling up with water I can’t take off from the lake , even at full throttle.