I had an odd experience today and was wondering if anyone might have an idea what happened or if it’s happens to them.
I was mid flight from Palm Springs, CA to Portland OR. About 2-2.5 hour flight.
I began hearing like a weird electrical issue.(sorry I don’t know the terminology) It’s the same sound that happens when engine 2 is full started then you switch on engine 1 to start it’s like a hydrologic sound. But this time it kept making that noise mid flight which I as never heard?
I had no warnings or anything on the screens. I verified nothing just shut off. What was odd was On the PFD screen where it shows CLB and CRZ along the top it was blinking “MCT” soooo I know thrusted the throttles up to MCT and then after a few seconds the plane went dark….
I tried restarting the battery’s which I got started but could not start external power, stated it was unavailable, therefore the plane could not be fired back up
Ultimately, I had to cancel my IFR and by the grace of god some how managed to land at a near by municipal airport in the mountains.
I have never heard that sound mid flight and then also never had the plane just shut off. I don’t believe I have failures active. Is this just a random failure for realism or???
I did not do anything different on this flight then I do on my other flights.
Co-Pilot ATC should be fine. Taxi ribbons also. But everything else should be turned off. Maybe something did turn itself on (happens sometimes). This behaviour we mainly have with some of the assistants on.
Normally I have it all off, besides Co pilot ATC but I’ll go through and make sure!
Appreciate the response!
If this helps, it did say on the bottom screen (blanking on the correct name) that shows messages and what not, it showed the following “Hydro…” which I never seen before nor know what it was meaning. That was when the plane was making the weird sound!
That´s surely some hidden engine failure for overstressing the engines or overheating the fuel pumps because the fuel tanks are not cool enough, or whatever other clever ultra-detailed simulator systems hidden failure only an absolute Airbus pro can find out.
Ehm… because I don´t have that Fenix yet and my knowledge with Airbus is really basic I now have to ask this question: Have you already tried pressing STRG + E in mid-air?
Here is a list of ECAM failure messages, but I cannot find any message saying anything with “hydro”
Thank you!!! Haven’t had it happen again but I also have not that done long of a flight since. It was maybe an hour in that flight.
Only way I best describe it was the sound. When I’m cockpit and first starting engines after one engine is fully started and switch on the second on, you hear that “hydrologic” sound for a second then never again.
Well while Cruse, throttles set to climb detent still, I began hearing that sound over and over and the throttles were thrusted up at 91%. Then shut off
I did just realize something… it was a sim brief generated flight plan, but what I thought was odd was it was a cruise altitude of 14,000. That’s lowest I have ever been set for in an Airbus. I fly a short 20 min flight from PdX to Sea all the time and it generates at least 16,000+ cruse altitudes.
Maybe it was something with my speed and being at 14000 feet stressed the engines like you were saying?
Cause the flight was from Palm Springs to Portland and that’s 2 hours and 15 minutes roughly. Should of been higher altitude I’d think.
I am not sure if the engines were overstressed at 91% N1.
Probably nothing was redlined.
I found one failure in these manuals that might fit for a HYDRO message in the ECAM. One time in all these manuals the word hydro is mentioned:
“The FADEC controls the Hydromechanical Unit (Hydro) that controls fuel flow to the combustion chambers, fuel hydraulic systems to actuators (please don´t ask me what is meant by that - fuel has nothing to do with the hydraulic fluid and hydraulic systems!), and overspeed protection.”
Maybe something triggered the circuit breaker for the Hydro Unit? And the fuel flow to the combustion chambers failed but without having failing fuel pumps?
Well unfortunately my knowledge about Airbus is rather limited. This will change greatly as soon as the superb Fenix Airbus is mine
Ahhh thank you for the help!! Yeah reading that is over my head hahah but I really appreciate the research and in sight. Glad to know it wasn’t a bug… at least that I know
Hey there, @CraderBug. Something did not work properly when you generated your simBrief flight plan. You are correct about having a very low cruise altitude. A flight of that distance would surely be in the mid-FL30s provided your pax and cargo numbers were “normal”.
Although your flight plan issue isn’t related to the engine problem, suggest you go back over a simBrief tutorial to see where you may have set an incorrect value.
Edit: If you aren’t using the FBW simBrief profile, here’s a YT video explaining how to use it for generating flight plans specific to the FBW model.
Please notice the topic name, this is not about the Fenix. The systems you are talking about are not yet exposed to user failures or such things in the A32NX, so they will not cause this.
This issue is usually caused by running out of fuel. @CraderBug, make sure you are not using the MSFS fuel and weight UI to set the fuel. As stated in our documentation, you need to use the flyPad (tablet on the left) to load fuel. Otherwise, you will get the default (minimal) amount.
Thank you!! I was mid flight a second ago about an hour in and it did the same thing. And I didn’t see your post until I already took off. I will do another flight but this time load the fuel via tablet.
To be honest, I never have touched the fuel on any of my flights because they are normally an hour or less.
But I’ll read the info you linked and learn how to properly load it/ how much
Here is a photo I snapped real quick when it happened (phone quality)
Notice on the PFD the white “LVR MCT” pops up flashing
The throttle gauges on the ECAM the right one has weird lines in it and dropped to 11.9 and continued to drop. The left one was dropping too but I quite the game before it went all the way down.
A/THR engaged (as normal)
AP 1 (as normal)
Throttle was in climb and wasn’t even at my CRZ altitude.
Ahhh so I’m assuming I ran out of fuel?? Like @holland786 mentioned earlier too me, I need to adjust fuel using the tablet.
I normally don’t touch the fuel options at all. Which I have gotten away with given I have been doing short flights until now these longer ones it has caught up with me hahah.
So use the flight pad to adjust fuel accordingly too my flight plan generated by simbreif?
A lot of people report this after 2 hours but today for the first time, my a319 went dark after about 30mins of flying. Was on autopilot, same startup as always and this never happened before. Thankfully I was at 32000, but before I could get the engines relit and full on TOGA I was almost at 6000 frantically trying to get the apu started doing checklists etc.
Never before happened and it was the first time I decided to fly out of New Zealand (Queensland) to Sydney aus. 2hr11m flight.
Just nuts. I’d use other aircraft but really the Xbox is limited in what we have and so I just buy what’s there. I always thought I wanted to go through an engine failure but not both at once and ■■■■ sure not 100s of miles from any land whatsoever over wide open ocean as far as I could see.
As the plane hurtled towards earth and I trying to get the engines back on I can only imagine at what the passengers would be experiencing had this been a real flight. From 32000 to 6000 in maybe 2 mins or so as I’m jockying with the interface trying to press the right buttons for relight and during that you don’t have real control over the aircraft so it kinda does what it wants and for me that was dive.
Welp engines are good for now and I’m 671 miles out from landing let’s hope I make it all the way. Fingers crossed.
