I take back my previous comment. The issue is still there regarding no power. Today on take off from CYYJ (-7C and sea level) I could firewall the throttle, see just under 1400 ft lbs, and not climb at all. I could barely do 200 fpm. Last night I flew the Kodiak for hours with no issues. Bypass was off. Tried cycling it, nothing. Level flight, could not exceed 120 knots. Definitely an issue.
OAT was -7C, so possibly icing? Did you have anti-ice on? It would explain your performance issues if your wings were covered in it.
Is there a bug in the latest version with the engine? Very often after startup of the engine, when finally moving the red fuel lever from low idle to high idle, I âloseâ the engine, meaning it powers down instead of going to high.
Pretty much never had that in the last version, but with this version, it happens A LOT.
Any ideas? 
No Ice. Someone else posted above the same issue.
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I should say, at least no visible iceâŠ
This is not a bug with the plane, as the condition lever hasnât been touched since mid-2020. It is about how MSFS handles mouse drag. Something might have changed in the sim code that causes the slip-up.
Regarding lack of power, MSFS has a bug that sometimes manifests when you start on the runway. It considers engine de-ice to be on and that greatly reduces torque. The solution is to turn the inertial separator on, wait for it to deploy and then back to off. This was reported a few months ago to Asobo but no fix has been issued yet.
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Did we ever have visible ice on the Kodiak? I have never seen some. Does that even work?
Hmm interesting. Yeah could definitelly be this mouse bug⊠quite nasty one then.
I had it about every 2nd or 3rd start up procedure that pushing from low idle to high idle resultet in a cut-off :///
Super annyoing.
The lack of power however did so far not occur in my cause. But well I rarely start directly on the runway.
But the âcondition lever mouse bugâ definitelly sucks.
If there is a workaround, please let us know.
Yeah I reckon this is totally the case. This used to happen to me a lot in VR because Iâm looking to the right yet I need to move the lever forward to high idle. Since this is transverse to my view, the lever would often move back a bit and the engine would shut down. In VR, I now make sure I lean well over the levers so that I have a good top down view of the condition lever and can confidently move it forward. Also, this problem has completely stopped since I started using a throttle quadrant with the condition lever assigned to an axis. That way of course, I donât move it back a bit by accident. I may be wrong, but @SiRRiPPERORiG something to test is if the condition lever is moved back just a fraction from low idle (but not to cutoff), does the engine shut down.
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Thank you! I also fly in VR and that is exactly what happens! I use the mouse to move from low idle to high idle but then that often results in a cutoff (the lever goes to high idle, but it cuts off)
Probably because the mouse bug or the view postition as you say moves the lever just a tiny bit into the wrong direction and the engine immediatelly cuts off.
would be great if @SiRRiPPERORiG could investigate, maybe there is some good workaround.
I currently fly with a game pad and I just wanted to set some buttons for the control functions for condition lever to âhigh idleâ, âlow idleâ and âcut offâ, with that I could avoid to use the mouseâŠ
But these functions seem not to be programmed into the Kodiak :///
When I configure it with this setup in the screenshot below, the lever does not move at all.
Seems like these commands are not programmed with the Kodiak.
(see the lowest three commands on the screenshot. This should work⊠but the lever does not move at all)
Thatâs because unfortunately the lever is treated as a âMixtureâ lever in the sim the way the Kodiak has been programmed, not a condition lever.
EDIT: I believe this was done intentionally so that they could recreate variable idle positions with a lever that is continuous (just like the real Kodiak), rather than only having three set positions (cutoff, low idle and high idle). With the way theyâve done it, you can select an idle somewhere between low and high.
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I have seen it on the windshield.
Yes. You do get visible icing. Saw some last week doing ops over Vancouver.
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I see⊠darnâŠ
Would have been perfect to be able to set these three positions with the controller to avoid the mouse bug until that is fixed.
I see that it can be programmed via âmixtureâ or actually also via âcondition lever increaseâ / âdecreaseâ.
However, it does move very rapidly and impossible to control, jumps quickly to cut off. Not really usuable unfortunatelly.
Therefore the three programmed control options âcut offâ / âlow idleâ and âhigh idleâ would have been useful.
Yeah totally. A few have us have recently been through the same steps as you for the same reasons.
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If you use increase /decrease mixture you will get push button control. Just be careful bringing it from HI to Low. I mean you can always taxi to the ramp in Hi, the brake pads are free in MSFS (or use Beta range)
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So in real life being able to select a âhigher idleâ than low idle is important if youâre running power hungry devices on the ground like the A/C. I mean you could just set it to high idle if you donât mind cruising the taxiways like an F1 driver and burning out your breaks. For us in the sim however, technically speaking I doubt that the power the A/C draws on the ground has been modelled to the extent that at low idle the engine isnât really generating enough power. So technically, SWS could change it to a proper condition lever in the sim which would allow us to use those presets for the three settings. I guess they were trying to go for as realistic as possible.
Buy yourself the Thrustmaster TCA yoke and throttle quadrant. Problem solved. Bank account empty.
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this update is the âmassiveâ update that they announced a while back?
Yes, it would be very marginal - even if the alternator fails the generator should produce enough amps for all aircraft systems, although you would probably turn off the a/câŠ
Windshield ice - for sure. Not sure if Iâve ever seen any ice on control surfaces.
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