Watch your carb temps !
Watch your carb temps !
This happened just a few minutes ago.
After 2 hours of calm flight, I was about to enter my crosswind leg on PAEN (Alaska). Airport was 10nm away, altitude was 2000ft ASL. Due to a bad habit from the P-51, I don't pay much attention to the carb temps when they are on the cold side with turbos off.
So I was flying with RAM AIR, turbos off, with an external temp just below the zero, no carb heat.
All of a sudden all of the engines stopped. Since I was flying low in the middle of Nowhere, Alaska , belly touched the snow before I could even try to think of something.
http://i.imgur.com/ML67mQG.png
Just a few seconds after the engines stopped torquing, I paused the game to look at the gauges, trying to understand wtf was going on. I had fuel pressure, oil pressure, auto-rich, all was right, except for the carb temp that was naturally just below 0. So my guess is, I froze my carbs, all four together, all at once.
Damn
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Re: Watch your carb temps !
Hi.
I am assuming you forgot to give some work to the pax engineer , still learning this aircraft myself , but thought in the pax version , that this was the engineers job .
I have had this message , in the guppy when first flying this beast , and destroying engines in the process.
Regards alan.
I am assuming you forgot to give some work to the pax engineer , still learning this aircraft myself , but thought in the pax version , that this was the engineers job .
I have had this message , in the guppy when first flying this beast , and destroying engines in the process.
Regards alan.
Re: Watch your carb temps !
Well, after almost 3.000.000 passenger miles without any major trouble, I found the flights got rather monotonous, so I disabled all help. Both FE and Navigator jobs are fun in their own waysalan CXA651 wrote:Hi.
I am assuming you forgot to give some work to the pax engineer , still learning this aircraft myself , but thought in the pax version , that this was the engineers job .
I have had this message , in the guppy when first flying this beast , and destroying engines in the process.
Regards alan.
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Re: Watch your carb temps !
Hi.
These old birds needed a crew of 4 to 5 people in the cockpit , hence A2A virtual help , but that would explain your problem , trying to do to much , you must be a gluton for punishment.
regards alan.
These old birds needed a crew of 4 to 5 people in the cockpit , hence A2A virtual help , but that would explain your problem , trying to do to much , you must be a gluton for punishment.
regards alan.
Re: Watch your carb temps !
Alan, do a search for carb heat in the Guppy for an explaination I gave. There is some messed up coding in the Guppy left over from the C377. Although there are no turbos or intercoolers in the Guppy, you will find you need to turn on the carb heats at some point and then use the intercoolers to regulate that heat to stay in the green. Hopefully it gets fixed after the Connie gets released.
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Trev
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Re: Watch your carb temps !
When i fly, i only control all functions in cruise. During take off and landings i only worry about flying and let the crew handle everything else. As posted before in real life it would be a crew of 4 so delegating responsibilities it actually more realistic than doing it all yourself.
Andrew
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