TBM Oil pressure warning and engine cut out

[lkowgli]

Had exactly the same issue. Solution was to create a new profile with mixture not mapped to any axis.

[Crunchmeister71]

I do the same. I find that when you have it mapped and flying a plane that doesn’t use mixture (TBM or jets), if you so much as nudge the mixture control accidentally, it will shut down the engine. It’s just easier to create a separate profile for my throttle that doesn’t include mixture and RPM when flying planes that don’t need it. It takes only a few seconds to hop into controller configuration and switch it and avoids accidental shutdowns.

It would be nice if we could permanently attach controller configs to specific planes though.

[gordongreig]

There is a wishlist for that:

Controllers assigned to an specific aircraft

Hi there, I merged this into another topic on the same request. Although your topic is older than the topic that was merged into, it has 125 votes at present time. As our forum software cannot merge votes, we must always merge into the topic with the most votes. Thank you for your understanding.

I also a wishlist for the control mappings screen to only show controls relevant to the selected plane - so that it wouldn’t allow you to map things not in use.

Ability to filter control assignments by aircraft type

I have searched the wishlist, but cannot see a similar thread/wish. If I;ve missed it, please flag this to the moderators so they can merge together. The title says it all really. I think it would be very helpful if the control assignments screen could have a filter that only shows controls that are active or appropriate for specific aircraft types. I have been mainly flying the TBM, but find it difficult, when changing to another aircraft, to identify the appropriate controls that I should be …

[Crunchmeister71]

Thanks for pointing those out. Voted on both.

Cheers mate!

[YanKun8000]

This just happened to me over the Gulf of Mexico and gave me a heart attack. Thanks for a quick answer to how to correct it!

[oldpilot54]

Thanks, this solved my issue, I had second from left on mu-y honeycomb Bravo mapped to mixture. Unmapped it and all good.

[cenkcdemir]

This happens to me with various planes like King air or Bonanza. After I hit ctrl+e again in the mid-air, the problem goes away.

[gordongreig]

Yes, that will restart the engine, but didn’t fix the root cause. Also only works if you are there at the time - and haven’t left the AP in charge whilst having dinner

[RegretfulTen41]

In the TBM, make sure you do not have anything mapped for mixture (It’s a jet engine, ain’t no mixture). after clearing that mapping it doesn’t happen anymore…l

[Pilotpete123]

@gordongreig

f this mixture control is moved to below 50%, the engine cuts out. It can then be restarted, even if the mixture control is left where it is, i.e. below 50%. If the control is moved AT ALL when below 50%, the engine cuts out (for clarity, that is moving the control up or down). Again, regardless of where the control is, the engine can be restarted. So, for example, moving the control from 60% to zero will cut the engine. After restarting, moving the control from zero to 100% will still cut the engine. It seems tied to moving the control at all when below 50%. Moving the control from 60% to 100% does nothing. Moving the control from 100% to 60% does nothing.

Obviosuly the fix is easy - unmap the mixture control! However, I will zendesk anyway.

I think the culprit for my engine failures is then my cat He likes to rub his cheeks on the quadrant levers…and if he does that on the mixture control, the engine cuts out

that’s painful

[DrewFSX]

Hi folks, Another update

After doing some digging, I have now found out that my mates son had used my Thrustmaster joystick and one of the cables has broke off its solder joint completely but had been touching off and on intermittently then leading to a full break.

Time to re-solder it and enable the throttle again, but fingers crossed it is that.

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Resoldered the connections in the Joystick throttle potentiometer and can certify its fixed, BUT, unfortunately I still get OIL Pressure and Engine cutout so its certainly a bug.

I cannot find anything in the bug section, perhaps I am posting in the wrong thread as this thread I think is closed now.

Also, it happens in the majority of single engine aircraft including Cessna 208B Grand Caravan and other crafts including the TBM 930.

Control E works for the TBM but not for others and its beyond frustrating.

If anybody knows the Devs or can suggest a better thread to post in to obtain further feedback or direct then I appreciate it as digging through the web and forums is exhausting.

Cheers again

[LongHaulSky]

Moved to Aviate, Navigate, Communicate which is more appropriate

[luciusrex2062]

Unmapping both Mixture axis and Propeller axis did it for me. Had to restart my session though.