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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | What's wrong?
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DVA1303
Assistant Chief Pilot, A320

Joined on August 24 2003
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Quincentenary Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Online Quintuple Century Club

Crystal Lake, IL

588 legs, 1,180.3 hours
533 legs, 1,062.8 hours online
558 legs, 1,128.0 hours ACARS
2 legs, 4.0 hours event
Posted onPost created on June 28 2012 19:48 ET by Jim McMannamy
Maybe someone can help me figure what is going on here. Look at my engine instruments and compare them to the airspeed indicator and altimeter. I am at FL340, showing 1.00 as my max EPR, around 90% N1, over 100% N2, and an EGT of around 700°, and I am at M.60. I can get the airplane up to M.80, but it puts the EGT well above redline and the EPR still shows 1.00. This is the Captain Sim 757. It has not always had this issue.

It may be worth noting that I have the Wilco A320 and have been having some issues with that aircraft as well. Mainly requiring MCT to get above FL280 and then cruise at a reasonable speed. Performance on both of these airplanes is normal below 10,000 feet.

Any ideas what is causing this behavior and how to correct it?

Jim McMannamy

Assistant Chief Pilot, A320
DVA1038
Captain, B737-800
E-MAIL

Joined on January 12 2003
Century Club

"Celer, Silens, Mortalis"
Summerville, SC USA

169 legs, 1,008.2 hours
56 legs, 288.5 hours online
25 legs, 221.2 hours ACARS
1 legs, 5.0 hours event
Posted onPost created on June 28 2012 19:54 ET by Kevin Cornish
Try engaging VNAV. You're not using your auto throttles at all.

Kevin Cornish

Captain, B737-800
DVA1303
Assistant Chief Pilot, A320

Joined on August 24 2003
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Quincentenary Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Online Quintuple Century Club

Crystal Lake, IL

588 legs, 1,180.3 hours
533 legs, 1,062.8 hours online
558 legs, 1,128.0 hours ACARS
2 legs, 4.0 hours event
Posted onPost created on June 28 2012 19:55 ET by Jim McMannamy
Engaging the auto throttles in this case causes the engines to spool down until the aircraft stalls. I should have mentioned that in my initial post.

Jim McMannamy

Assistant Chief Pilot, A320
DVA1038
Captain, B737-800
E-MAIL

Joined on January 12 2003
Century Club

"Celer, Silens, Mortalis"
Summerville, SC USA

169 legs, 1,008.2 hours
56 legs, 288.5 hours online
25 legs, 221.2 hours ACARS
1 legs, 5.0 hours event
Posted onPost created on June 28 2012 19:56 ET by Kevin Cornish
Hmmm. Are you programing the FMC correctly?

Kevin Cornish

Captain, B737-800
DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM

Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club

"pitchpowertrim.com"
Anderson, MO

619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs, 503.1 hours online
580 legs, 1,026.5 hours ACARS
89 legs, 191.0 hours event
236 legs dispatched, 110.1 hours
Posted onPost created on June 28 2012 20:09 ET by Michael Brown
The problem is your TAT (total air temperature) .....it indicates 64 degrees Celsius. That is EXTREME heat at that altitude.

Something is wrong with your weather...are you using a weather addon??



DVA1303
Assistant Chief Pilot, A320

Joined on August 24 2003
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Quincentenary Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Online Quintuple Century Club

Crystal Lake, IL

588 legs, 1,180.3 hours
533 legs, 1,062.8 hours online
558 legs, 1,128.0 hours ACARS
2 legs, 4.0 hours event
Posted onPost created on June 28 2012 20:19 ET by Jim McMannamy
Michael, you are correct, that is the issue! I am using FSInn, and for some reason, even though I select the "Download real world weather" within FSX, the FSInn VATSIM weather is taking over and causing the error. I selected CAVOK on FSInn and then re-selected the real-world FSX weather and it has corrected the problem . . . definitely back to normal now. Thank you! This has been plaguing me for months.

Jim McMannamy

Assistant Chief Pilot, A320
DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM

Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club

"pitchpowertrim.com"
Anderson, MO

619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs, 503.1 hours online
580 legs, 1,026.5 hours ACARS
89 legs, 191.0 hours event
236 legs dispatched, 110.1 hours
Posted onPost created on June 28 2012 20:24 ET by Michael Brown
You're welcome. It is a common problem. Glad you got it worked out.


DVA5661
Senior Captain, B737-800
OLP, COMM

Joined on March 07 2008
50 State Club
Online Triple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Everett Millennium Club
Globetrotter
DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Two Million Mile Club

"737 or MD-11, how far you wanna go?"
Melbourne, FL USA

1,928 legs, 4,823.7 hours
304 legs, 639.9 hours online
1,880 legs, 4,735.4 hours ACARS
19 legs, 40.9 hours event
Posted onPost created on July 09 2012 20:45 ET by Vic DeSantis
Jim, you have narrowed the problem. There is a documented issue with FSInn throwing TAT temps once you climb above 18K feet. This has an affect on any aircraft you fly while using that program. FSInn forums will tell you to do just what you resolved. When climbing above 18K, set the weather to CAVOK and the problem will resolve itself. I went batty for a few days trying to figure that out last year.


DVA8752
Captain, B767-300

Joined on January 01 2010
50 State Club
Triple Century Club

Sedalia, CO

338 legs, 1,236.8 hours
31 legs, 181.3 hours online
37 legs, 232.7 hours ACARS
2 legs, 8.4 hours event
Posted onPost created on July 09 2012 22:11 ET by Brandon Howell
Vic DeSantis wrote:

Jim, you have narrowed the problem. There is a documented issue with FSInn throwing TAT temps once you climb above 18K feet. This has an affect on any aircraft you fly while using that program. FSInn forums will tell you to do just what you resolved. When climbing above 18K, set the weather to CAVOK and the problem will resolve itself. I went batty for a few days trying to figure that out last year.


Or you can just set CAVOK on the ground, reload your weather program of choice, and that's it.





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