PMDG 737: Hydraulic Electric Pumps - Overheat

Look at how much amber is showing. You’ve configured your fuel pumps all wrong. And probably had master cautions during the whole flight because of this. Don’t ignore amber lights.

Your center tank is full and your wings are almost empty. This means that you didn’t turn on the center fuel pumps so that center tank fuel was unused. With more than 726Kg of fuel in the center tank and the center tanks pumps off, you’ll get a fuel config alert like you can see there. You’ve also exceeded an important airplane structural limitation. If the center tank contains more than 453Kg of fuel, the wing tanks must be full. NEVER have fuel in the center tank unless the wing tanks are full. Bad bad.

If you have fuel in the center tank and in the wings tanks, you should have 6 pumps on. The center fuel pumps operate at higher pressure so the center fuel will be used first when all the pumps are on. Then, when the center tank runs out of fuel, you can turn the center fuel pumps off (when you get master caution+fuel) and the engines will continue using the fuel from the wing tanks with the 4 remaining fuel pumps.

What happened there my friend is that your right engine was starved of fuel.

Here, have an FCOM:

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