Engine Overhaul Hours

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Bozdog
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Engine Overhaul Hours

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I have started a new career mode, and completed 5 flights. I have overhauled my engine to show 0.00 hours since last overhaul. I then do a flight of 50 minutes and it says on each engine,
-115558.9 since last overhaul. Each engine has a similar negative figure .. Can this be right? If not any ideas how to correct?

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Steve

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Re: Engine Overhaul Hours

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Hello Steve,

is it a new flight or a saved flight?

Are you all updated with the latest Accu-sim update?

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Re: Engine Overhaul Hours

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Lewis - A2A wrote:Hello Steve,

is it a new flight or a saved flight?

Are you all updated with the latest Accu-sim update?

thanks
Lewis
Hi Lewis, no its not saved , I loaded the default plane up with a flight plan, cold and dark. Then Switched to the B377. Overhauled all 4 engines. Then did a flight and after shutdown went to check the engines and had these negative figures.

Just loaded it back in and still showing negative figures. I ran the auto update about 3 weeks ago so just ran the 17/1/17 ( 1_17-2017 ) update, and it found nothing on the B377 to update, just my 172.

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Steve

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Re: Engine Overhaul Hours

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The .dat might need a reset, any sim issues recently, like unexpected crashes or sim shutdowns? That sort of thing can easily corrupt a .dat file.

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Re: Engine Overhaul Hours

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Hi Lewis, thanks for the reply, really appreciate you taking the time.
Everything has been pretty good in my Sim lately.

I had not heard of a .dat file, but found, "fdr.dat" in C:\Users\Steven\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX
Nothing in the A2a folders for it for my B377, C172, Cherokee, Spitfire or Accufeel?

Opened with Notepad has some sort of code in it?

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Do you mean I should delete this file? (or leave it well alone - see below)

Just for my future reference can you tell me what this file is /used for?
GOOD NEWS though

I overhauled the engines before my last flight
Just reloaded up, and since my last flight the engines now show 1.6 hours so seems correct now. 8)

I did notice I have an airframe of 35 hours. Is there any way of resetting that? Or is that just the total time I have used this plane in the Sim?

Appreciate your help with this, my next purchase will be the Connie !

Kind Regards
Steve

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Re: Engine Overhaul Hours

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Airframe hours are cumulative, Steve, so it continues building time regardless of engine hours, which are zeroed out on each rebuild. Only way to zero out the airframe hours is to delete that mysterious .dat file! :D

You can find out more about .dat by searchng the term in the forum.

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