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I was on the final leg of my around-the-world flight in Clipper America. I took off from Idlewild Airport (now JFK), and headed for my start point, SFO. While crossing the Nevada border at 26,500ft, I elected to shutoff and feather engine #2, due to low MP and rough running. I turned on AFK and set for emergency, trimmed it up, and went upstairs to watch the Dodgers game. I came down about 10min later to re-adjust the heading gyro, due to drift. As I looked, the attitude was somewhat nose-high, and as I changed views to outside, #1 was in flames, I was riding the edge of a stall, and had lost 9,500ft. I looked overhead and the red light was on, so I hit the fire panel, and extinguishers, setting #1's mixture and throttle to zero. To recover airspeed from the stall, I had gotten down to 11,000ft. Then, seeing I was too low to climb back to altitude (to avoid heavy turbulence in the Sierra Nevada) I made an emergency landing at Silver Springs Airport in Nevada. As I trimmed the rudder, I reduced power for an approach into Silver Springs. However, looking at my MP gauge, I saw the MP was at 20" for all four engines, and throttle was unresponsive (I turned off MP hold and throttle lock) and I had no power. For some reason, #'s 3 & 4 had both shut off in the process, and I was unable to restart them. I immediately cut mixture, throttle, and feathered the props, making me a big glider. While in the descent, the FE was telling me to reduce power now, because engines couldn't take much more, and the stewardess said an engine was on fire. No engines were on fire, and they were off. I made the best Stratocruiser landing I've ever made, making applause and a safe stop (with emergency brakes).

So my problem is, why did my FE tell me to reduce power, my stewardess tell me engines were on fire, and why didn't AFK pause the game? Is this a glitch, a load error? Everything was perfect from takeoff...

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Your problem stems from going AFK to watch a Dodger game!

Now if it had been a Giants game, all would have been well!

(I have no real answer for your observations however)

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Paul


i5-2500K @4.3Ghz OC - GA-P67A-UD7-B3 - 8GB Corsair 1600mHz

Who has the best record in baseball?

Mhhmmm

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© 2011 Peter J. Carlson, All Rights Reserved
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And who is playing is the weakest division in the MLB? Oh right... let's see how they do when they play real teams.

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I've had a similar problem! Not with baseball though. I've set my AFK to emergency and when I came back the plane had lost a lot of altitude and was at a near stall.

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Hi Icarus,
So that can happen if you have the flight engineer activated. As it becomes necessary, he will go from ram to sheltered air, which will decrease the performance of the engines. If the event continues for some time, your airspeed will bleed off and your altitude will decrease. You can mitigate this somewhat by asking him to maintain a constant manifold pressure (also available from the shift + 3 screen). I'm not sure if he also needs to be delegated control over the turbos for this to be effective, but it seems reasonable to assume so.

Hi there Jacques,

my FE usually takes over from the time I started up all engines. As soon as I took off he gets control over MP until I reach cruise altitude. After I have adjusted the MP for cruise, I again let him take over to hold around 40" MP.
So my FE basically has absolute control for the whole flight.
Setting the AFK feature to emergency should pause the sim in such a case. A near stall is something I would consider an emergency! However, the AFK feature seems to be faulty in some way.

A better AFK feature would be, if my co-pilot would actually take point and manage the whole thing, like some sort of super autopilot. What else is a co-pilot good for? It seems to me, he's just another passenger telling me to set flaps to 25°. Seriously though, what IS this guy doing actually? Getting paid for looking out the windows?

Icarus

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