So I’m setting up a new flight sim PC. Got most things working, the joystick is doing what it should and not doing anything it shouldn’t, most of the toggles I want are setup on the streamdeck, all the assists are turned off and all the realism is turned on, time for a test flight.
I randomly chose a GA parking spot at a random airport that happened to be daylight - possibly WIII (actually it was WIRR). I don’t even know what country that is, it was entirely chosen because it was daylight there.
Started the plane up ok (Lionheart’s Trinidad), started to taxi out, suddenly the plane went to full throttle and did a U turn on the taxiway and all my controls stopped working. I reset the flight and this time it spawned in at the parking spot with the engine running and immediately started to roll forwards.
Fine then I thought, have your crash and then I’ll change planes. But it didn’t crash. It followed the taxiways out to the active, backtracked to the end then turned around and took off and cleaned the plane up as it slowly climbed. While I just sat there in astonishment touching absolutely nothing. We’re currently steady at 3500’ heading to, err, I have no idea. We’ve just passed the WI VOR and there’s nothing in front of me now for a couple of hundred miles of ocean. I’m seriously tempted to leave it going and see if it lands somewhere.
Edit : It just changed fuel tanks to keep the fuel balanced.
Edit 2 : Volanta says I took off from near Jakarta in Indonesia and I’m heading out across the Java Sea. The plane is flying full rich with the MP and RPM at the top of their gauges so it’s going to be landing before too long whether it wants to or not. I can’t lean it or pull the throttle back, although weirdly I can pull back the prop lever in the VC but not with my hardware lever.
Edit 3 : left tank is empty. I tried to change to that tank to force a resolution but I’m now locked out of the fuel selector.
Edit 4 : and crashed … I screen recorded the last minute or so of us gliding down, with me trying but failing to move the throttle and mixture levers while the (ghost?) kept turning the keys to start to try and fire the engine up again. Then we ran out of airspeed and dropped a wing and spiralled in. It was a very poignant moment, and deeply unsettling. I think I’ll exit to the main menu instead of restarting …
Edit 5 : I did restart, for the lols, with the screen being recorded. The plane did exactly the same thing but this time I tried to play some games with it. I tried turning the ignition off but every time I turned the key down from both it tutned right back up again. Then I turned the fuel selector off and the plane turned it straight back on and restarted the engine and locked me out of the fuel selector. Time to change planes or airports I think.
Anyone got any ideas what manner of hellspawn has possessed my plane ?
