Wireless xbox controller disconnection causing dual engine failure

🔒Sim Update 4 Beta | MSFS 2024 Hardware
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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

I have the my xbox series s/x controller on wireless mode with the xbox wireless adapter. After a few minutes, my controller will naturally turn off to save power. When turning on the controller, it reconnects for a very short period but is unresponsive, disconnects and turns off. A message will then pop up stating something like “Controller disconnected“ followed by a dual engine failure on my aircraft. At first I thought it was just an issue with the Fenix A320, but it happened on the inibuilds A350 as well

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Intermittently, seemingly random

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Use xbox wireless controller (idk if it happens with other controllers). Let it shut off after a while

  2. Eventually you’re gonna pickup the controller again, maybe look around or do other stuff. Turn on the controller

  3. Not sure what triggers it, but suddenly the controller will disconnect with the “controller disconnected” warning and your engines will simultaneously fail. Doesn’t happen 100% of the time

Hardware

XBOX Series s/x controller

Winwing ursa minor 32

Thrustmaster airbus throttle

Logitech rudder

PC

5800X3D

32gb DDR4 @3200

RTX 3090

MEDIA

I didn’t get to capture it, but I will upload some photos if I do

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That is normal behaviour.
It will occur as well when a wired device “wakes up”, or is plugged in, while in a flight.

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Well I sure wish it wasn’t normal.

It’s not nice to turn on your controller and then getting a dual engine failure. This didn’t used to happen although only happens intermittently. While I do get the occasional spolier extension when I nudge my joystick and throttle, it’s only this time when I turn on my controller that I’m getting an immediate dual engine failure without warning.

Issues like these are a pain and shouldn’t be normalized tbh

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It isn’t “normalized” as in trying to belittle the issue.
It is what happens when you plug in a controller in mid flight.
Thus, it’s normal for that to happen because it’s a limitation of the sim.