Had not flown the DC6 in some time (3-4 months). Went to fly it the other day. And found that the AFE blew the engines. A couple minutes after normal dry takeoff and airborne, the engines (usually starting with #3) start to go. I can see their status’ redlining on the tablet. Did not have this experience when flying previously. Anybody have any suggestions? I noticed after making an emergency landing the engine oil quantities are nearly entirely depleted. As well, the particular parameters that appear to redline are the cylinder head temp, fuel pressure, (and a few others which at the moment I cannot recall). Is anyone else experiencing anything remotely akin to this? I tried changing tail numbers etc, and that has not had any impact on this issue.
Can’t say that I have and flown it quite a lot the past few days. Word to the wise though. It sometimes helps to click ‘cold & dark’ after loading, even when they’re already C&D. Also, dont’forget to maintenance them and fill all the fluids.
have you tried deleting and re-installing the dc-6 ?
I had some hiccups with it a while ago and this solved it.
Recently had this, too.
After warm up and long taxi, one after another engine failed - 3 out of 4. Wasn’t pretty with a height of less than 1000 feet and jungle all around me…
Sounds like you haven’t been topping off the oil between flights. So maybe your engines burned out due to not having enough oil. Could be some other maintenance issue, but that’s the first thing to come to mind.
Going to try uninstalling and reinstalling. It’s not the oil quantities per say. I top off everything before each flight. But again, by the end of the flight the oil quantity is nearly drained (and by flight I mean brief circuit accompanied by a dead stick landing).
just to clarify : in my case the engines just lost power after gear up with AFE running the takeoff. That was a month ago or such. i had not used the DC-6 for a month prior to that.
PMDG support advised to delete and re-install as the MSFS Updates can reset some things in the installed airplane code or such. I am sure I said that wrong what they explained, but deleting (de-install in windows) and reinstalling the whole PMDG Operations center and then the aircraft in that PMDG program solved the issue.
at T/O, attain 160 kts ASAP while maintaining less than 400 fpm climb. It helps to adjust rate of climb before T/O. Your AFE should report Flaps Up, METO set and Climb Settings set in succession. If your air speed is too low, those 3 events will not happen and your engines will fail.
Make sure you service your engines and fluids before flight.
Happy flights!
A re-install fixed this exact problem for me. My AFE had lost it big-time. Not sure what caused it, but it’s fixed.
I can attest to odd behavior fixed by an uninstall (via Windows) and reinstall from scratch via the PMDG Operations Center.
I’ve done this after every update, and it seems to eliminate any (drastically) odd behavior.
For the record: I do not typically use the AFE.
Silly Q, but how do I uninstall/reinstall?
@Seven7Tango how did you uninstall (via windows)?
If you purchased from the marketplace I think you can do it from the content manager via the profile screen at the main menu.
In Windows, go to Settings and then click the “Apps” icon.
Scroll down until you find the entry for PMDG. It should say something like “DC-6 Base Package.” Click on that entry and the option to uninstall will come up.
Reinstall using the original installer you received when you purchased the DC-6. You’ll have to re-enter your license key.
Note: above instructions are for purchases made for the PC, via the PMDG website.
@Seven7Tango manythanks! everything seems to be ok again
how do you do IFR flights in the dc-6
The easiest way is to switch the radio stack from Bendix to Garmin GNS 430 via the EFB.
Or plan VOR flights ( while you can, anyway - they’re disappearing rapidly ).