Persistent Electrical Failure

[Quickmarch 488]

Curious thing happening in AH. Every time I load one of my aircraft with the intent of flying it myself (not AI flights) I find myself sitting in an electrically dead cockpit. If I go into the FSX menu under FAILURES  and check for the problem I find that the radio button "Single Component Failures" is ticked and "Electrical" has failed. I can simply un-tick the box under "Failed" and then go and start the aircraft but I cannot get rid of it permanently. 

 

I've looked in the FSX.CFG file, the FSX Menus, AH Options, AH Fleet, etc. Cannot find anything that triggers this.

 

EDIT: This does not happen in FSX - only in AH/FSX

 

Any ideas???

 

[allardjd 1,853]

Hmmm. Never seen that one before. You seem to have all the luck. Is it one specific aircraft or any of them?

John

[wain 879]

Could it be specific aircraft that has jts own built in failures not related to the FSX menu...can you not just set options and save them to overwrite this option...

[Quickmarch 488]

Solved the problem, just now. Been bugging me all night, so I got on it right away this morning.

 

While in AH, setting up a flight from NZWN to NZWN, I cleared the checkbox then clicked the radio button for "Random Component Failures" and set all of the parameters to "0". I shut down FSX, shut down AH, then restarted both.

 

The sim defaults to "Single Component Failures" radio button enabled, but now it does not fill in the checkbox under Electrical.

 

I'm suspicious that the cause of this was a flight that I did immediately after setting up ORBX NZ North Island as my scenery. I mentioned in another post, day before yesterday, that my first flight was a disaster in that AH determined I had landed in a Forest despite the fact that I was definitely on the (grass) runway at the end of a positioning flight. I got hit with a 48% damage assessment and had to fly the a/c home in that state. I used insurance for repairs as it was a biggie.

 

After fixing the failures issue, I took the Beaver up to NZDV from NZWN on another positioning flight and was careful to land exactly on the centreline. NZDV is another grass runway. I was assessed another penalty, this time only 4%. I did notice that AH remarked I had landed in a "Forest" again. Must be a landclass issue. Before anyone asks - Yes, I did run the AH scenery configuration routine and it reported that all was well.

 

Now I'm getting leery about flying anywhere in AH using ORBX scenery. I don't think I can afford a penalty every time I land on a grass runway. Especially in NZ where there are many grass runways.

 

My next step is to do a re-positioning flight to an airport with a hard surface runway and see what happens. Maybe this afternoon as my construction boss (SWMBO) is hovering.

[Corsaire31 419]

Have not hauled in NZ yet but Matt did. 

 

In my AH ORBX regions ( PNW, PFJ + Tongass fjords, CRM, SAK ) I never had a problem so far since Nov 2013 I'm flying there even on many small RTMM strips.

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

I mostly fly choppers in NZ...but not exclusively. I have never encountered any off surface Dings while in the 337, twotter, or other fixed wings.

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

Hey March...I flew a Mooney from Masterson to NZDV last night (empty just in case...a positioning flight) to check out the off field landing damage issue. I had no problems. I got the usual AH pop up telling me I "Greaser'd". I touch and go'ed on both grass strips, but not the asphalt.

 

I hope you can get it figured out. It's a lovely area to fly around.

 

Matt.

[Quickmarch 488]

@Cap Coffee,

 

Thanks for the note - are you using ORBX NZ North Island?

 

I thought I had it solved - until I tried a revenue flight tonight originating out of NZWN. Same problem - dead battery. Easy to fix and get flying, but it's starting to P me off. 

 

Only occurs in AH using ORBX. Everything else - FSX on its own, FSX in NZ (including with ORBX), FSX in Canada and the USA, AH in Canada and the USA - all perfectly normal.

 

Good thing I've still got lots of hair.

 

 

[Captain Coffee 2,030]

@Cap Coffee,

 

Thanks for the note - are you using ORBX NZ North Island?

 

I thought I had it solved - until I tried a revenue flight tonight originating out of NZWN. Same problem - dead battery. Easy to fix and get flying, but it's starting to P me off. 

 

Only occurs in AH using ORBX. Everything else - FSX on its own, FSX in NZ (including with ORBX), FSX in Canada and the USA, AH in Canada and the USA - all perfectly normal.

 

Good thing I've still got lots of hair.

 

Yep, I have NZNI and NZSI installed...plus Milf and Queenstown airports. I haven't had any odd issues up there with landing or electrical failures. Although as noted before I did recreate the GPS Procedure 'crash' button bug you found...one I would Never have noticed on my own.

 

I think i'll devote a bit more time up there in AH and see what's up if anything. I only recently moved up to the North Island, having spent most of my time so far down in Milf/Queenstown area and the mountains between. I have mostly flown helis up in the North end of the South Island, because that area is LITTERED with "0" length grass strips (unlisted field lengths in airhauler) that turn out to be 1000-ish foot or less grass strips (often on sloping terrain ) when I arrive...IE...it's a hella fun area to poke around in.

[Quickmarch 488]

I know what you mean about the zero length fields. That's why I have a C208 and a Beaver (on wheels) in all my fleets. Those two do not require any "length" to the runway.

 

I got myself in a pickle in Oz where I accepted a flight to an airport near Brisbane only to find out on arrival that it's a water runway in the Brisbane River. I was able to land on the beach with the Beaver and saved the day. I learned from that one that Oz uses a different identifier (similar to Canada & USA) for water runways - I just didn't know what it was at the time. I don't think I've run across any water runways in NZ. There's loads of amphib and float-only stuff flying around the North and South Islands, but I don't know what their designation looks like. That is something I should google up sooner rather than later. I have amphibs in my Canadian Fleet, but not in New Zealand.