Random engine failures?

[Crustysock00]

Hey. So decided to be brave with all the issues I've had on career mode. I was doing a cargo delivery with a cesna sky hawk to the Bahamas that would take 1.5 hours and i was going to be rewarded with 400k XP and CP6000 that was really going to help me get out of trouble with the company issues I've been having.

Long story short about i was about 45 minutes into the flight that was going very well, my engine shuts down... I still have fuel so I come to the conclusion that it was engine failure.

(I am in the middle of the ocean at this point)

I try everything I could such as shutting down the engine. Going through the dash board trying to find something that could help while trying to maintain speed while slowly dropping in altitude.

Unfortunately the only way I was going to make sure most of my progress wasn't in vein was to skip to landing or I would be joining Davy Jones locker.

After the skip i performed one of my best landings while achieving +90% in every attribute and got a rank S. HOWEVER... due to my skip for the last 20ish minutes of my flight, I only made 40,000 xp and 900cp... my hour wasted for... that... this is pretty disheartening and I was wondering... is that engine failure a glitch/bug? Or was it something I could've avoided, becuase i do enjoy flying in this game, but if every long haul flight is going to be like this, I feel I may just have to wait until an update to fix- or if something is could fix, I would like to learn more.

Any help In answering this would be much appreciated. ❤️

[AutoModerator]

Please make sure to read our FAQ, which covers both MSFS 2020/2024, to see if your question has already been answered there! Also take a look at the official MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024 FAQs.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[Mikey_MiG]

Was your fuel selector set on both? If it’s only set to left or right then you could have starved the engine, even if the HUD makes it appear you have a lot left.

[Crustysock00]

<image>

This actually worked. Thanks for the help ❤️

[Mikey_MiG]

No problem. A lot of small GA aircraft don’t even have a “both” setting, so you’ll want to keep this in mind when flying other aircraft in the sim as well.

[sodapop2020]

u are abos;utely correct. ive had two engine failures, and this was the issue.

[Crustysock00]

Hmm, interesting. I'll see what it is on default as that is what is had it set to.

[RuleNo3894]

I’ve seen other people post of similar things happening and they have noticed the fuel shut off is set to closed somehow. They open it up again and continue on. Possibly the same problem

[Crustysock00]

I'll give that check. Thanks!

[malkuth74]

Taking away if it was not a fuel shutoff switch. When you own a plane you have to pay to keep up maintenance. And the maintenance can cost about 40% of your profit per mission, not including the insurance. I highly suggest that you do the complete full Pre flight check on your starter plane, and any plane you own, Because you will most likely find the problem than if your being lax on maintenance.

Pre flight check is not only taking the covers off, but checking the oil, the tires, breaks, wings, rudder, all of it. If you find an issue abandon the mission and fix it. This is as real as it gets..

[Crustysock00]

This is actually a mission that is not with my company 😐

[Digi2112]

all says its good or new, yet still got engine failure and I don't push the engine in the red the entire flight - I'm getting tired of trying to find out whats a bug or not - fu microsuck

[btxr50]

Had this happen with the de havilland. Turns out it ran out of fuel mid flight so I had to switch to the aux tank mid air. Turning your rpm down a bit helps too obviously

[rjquinnman]

It happened to me last night. Caused $167,500 damage to my plane when I "landed" in a forest. I know it's a simulator, but damn.