Cant Foul Plugs To The Point Of A Stall/No Restart

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RageShade1
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Cant Foul Plugs To The Point Of A Stall/No Restart

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Before 1 or 2 updates ago the Massive plugs could fowl out entirely stalling the engine and possibly not restarting unless u got a lucky fire, ive noticed now I can run full rich mixture at around 600rpm and still not foul the plugs to the point of a stall, this dosn't seen very realistic to me is this an unintended change, the plugs do still fowl but as long as both mags are on with at lest %15 throttle the engine never dies.

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Re: Cant Foul Plugs To The Point Of A Stall/No Restart

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That was an intentional change i believe, i asked about it quite a long time ago and Mr. Scott said that he never encountered such an aggravated situation where the engine would die completely.

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Re: Cant Foul Plugs To The Point Of A Stall/No Restart

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I think they should have kept it, technically it was realistic

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Re: Cant Foul Plugs To The Point Of A Stall/No Restart

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I don't know, it depends. Many airplane engines idle just fine even with throttle back all the way and mixture at full rich. Not the least factor is how the idle mixture is adjusted but it is not the only one.

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Re: Cant Foul Plugs To The Point Of A Stall/No Restart

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The engines will "idle" but not very happily and they will foul. The fixed timing of the magnetos is very evident when the engines are run below 800 RPM where the RPM bounces around and the engine runs roughly.

I've never had a fouled engine shut off on me when idle, but at idle it feels really bad.

I think the current simulation is pretty accurate.
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