Hapydays Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 RV-4 engine won't start. The maintenance shows everything is OK. In FSX under Failures/Engine it shows total engine failure. If reset this to 0 and go back to the RV4 and then go back to the engine Failure/ engine menu it will once again say " Total engine failure". I did not touch or do anything while I was back in the RV4 other than go back to the Failures menu. Of the multitude of aircraft I have installed in my sim. this is the only plane that does this. I tried doing an uninstall and reinstalling from the original download. I ran a new download and installed from this. Same problem. To add to this I have gone to the RV4 from a plane I had left running and the RV4 was running and flew fine. Once I shut it down I was back to square one. 99% of the times I tried this the engine would be running but would shut down. I have no idea as to what is going on. Any ideas? Herb ( Hapydays) Hapydays@ptd.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sawatzky Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 Hi Herb Have a look at the below post, I also have to open the maintenance menu and fill the oil and click on the overhaul engine option and the aircraft works without issue after that. Cheers Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 In response to your enquiry, I personally have no experience with this aircraft model. I have just installed it to check that to a novice user there are no inbuilt faults. With no prior knowledge at all, it does not behave for me in the way you say it does for you. I am able to reset all the maintenance options and fly the aircraft away. I do find that if I start the engine without first following the advice that Doug gave you, it quickly stops with complete failure, as any engine would with no oil in it. I find also that if I cancel the error in the FSX failures page, return to the aircraft and then to the failures page, the engine failure is still logged there. All exactly as you report. This little investigation is suggesting to me that you have not yet found the engine page in the maintenance window where you can first fill the engine with oil before you start it and cancel a complete engine failure. As Doug has already told you. I do think that if the aircraft behaved for everyone in the way that makes it impossible for you to fly it, it would have never made it past beta testing. As I advise in the topic that Doug linked you to, there is no longer a developer accessible to us to ask the questions of but there are over 250 support posts to browse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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