The weirdest thing happened today. Flying from Orlando to Charlotte in the default A320. Everything is fine, then all of a sudden I hear the sound of the ap disconnect warning. I look, and the whole panel is dark. No engines, no power no nothing. I can’t be out of fuel cuz I have it set on unlimited. It’s the only assist I have on. Failures not turned on. The only thing that’s been different is I have started powering up the cockpit manually instead of being lazy and hitting the cntr E key. I followed the checklist to a T. Takeoff was fine. Climb was fine. Cruise was fine. Then 35 minutes into the flight everything went black. I tried trouble shooting, restarting the engines and in a panic even the cntr E combination. Nothing worked. No flaps or gear either. Luckily I was able to glide it all the way down as I was heading east for an ocean water landing but didn’t quite make. But I did a nice Captain Sully like water landing in a river near the coast. Everyone survived lol.
I still don’t have a clue what went wrong. Would leaving engine bleed on do this? I did whatever the checklist said but it only has one checklist, 3 pages. Before engine start, engine start and after engine start. No other checklist. Any ideas?
I’ve had this issue before. Usually happens when the sim is running low on memory and tries to free up some memory by shutting down background processes (eg. Not loading LODs, not loading textures, and in this case, just killing the avionics). You can always save the fight, restart the sim and continue flying.
Now, this shouldn’t happen at 38000ft. I’ve seen it happen on approach or takeoff at heavy airports only.
Hmm. Maybe. I’m looking into crossfeed. It seems that even if you have unlimited fuel checked, I noticed that it gives you about 50 percent fue in the wings l, but 0 fuel in the center fuel tank. I use to always start my flights on the runway but have recently began starting at the gate to learn start up procedures. I would turn on the batteries, then the apu, push back, the controller E. After engine start and shutting down the apu, there was always a light at the top it seemed I had to turn off as this did happen one other time, but just no fuel, not the whole avionics shutting down. Now I’m doing everything by the checklist. Guess I need to learn more about fuel flow. But you may be right as well. Sim has so many bugs. Weird that I just had nothing. Only thing that worked was aerlons.
Yes. Generators were on. I did have high clouds, the kind that make the gpu work. Maybe it was the memory. I did double my ram recently to 16gb. It was matching memory though. I’m still scratching my head on this one.
Yes I did a repeat of the same exact plan yesterday. All went well this time. Well, I think it was just a one off. Not gonna worry about unless it happens again. I do notice that when I have these certain type of high clouds my gpu temps go up to near 80. For some reason they really work the gpu. Most of the time it’s in the low 70s. Not sure if that had anything to do with it or not. Oh well, thanks for the help. If it happens again I’ll post back here.
Depending on the age of your video card, you might want to remove the heat-sinks and refresh the heat-sink compound as it does dry out after about a year. Consider doing this to other components like the CPU and any other components with heat-sinks.
This is something that is highly recommended for systems that get “abused”, (like gaming systems that run computationally intense tasks - like MSFS! ), and should be a six-month/annual maintenance item, likd regularly blowing out the dust, pet hair, bugs, and other cruft that accumulate in the system, coolers, system fans and the PSU.
I also recommend removing and reseating items like memory, graphics card(s), and any other add-ons that plug in during this maintenance interval. (I typically do this three or four times to wipe oxides off the contact surfaces.) This helps keep contact resistance and stray capacitance down which will help your system run more stably.
This might not solve your specific problem, but is a good idea in general to avoid strange crashes and other unexplainable quirks.
Correct GPU temperature can vary between cards. My GTX 2060 is a hot-running card and, when working hard, is normally in the mid 80s. Usage is rarely above 90% so it’s not being overtaxed. It does raise a few eyebrows when I tell people but it’s normal.
You might want to check that before you start worrying.
Based on my own experience, I generally don’t recommend games like MSFS, (or crypto mining), on laptops since it’s difficult to perform the kinds of maintenance that extremely advanced software that is computationally intense requires.
You do you, but at the very least make sure you blow out all the vents with canned air every few months, and make sure there’s plenty of air space underneath it.
My sister used to fry laptops at a rate of every six months - or less - and couldn’t figure it out until I discovered she was keeping her laptop on her fluffy couch, or on her lap wearing loose clothing. After I mentioned that she needs a hard surface “laptop mat” to allow air to circulate, she stopped frying laptops.
I am sure you already know all this, but I mention it for the benefit of others who might not be so expert.
I live in Florida and wear shorts all the time. I use to get toasted skin syndrome ( Google it) on my legs when simming. I don’t do that anymore haha. I use my 65in tv for simming now and it sits on a tv stand shelf with plenty of air. I’m not really worried about it.
), and should be a six-month/annual maintenance item, likd regularly blowing out the dust, pet hair, bugs, and other cruft that accumulate in the system, coolers, system fans and the PSU.