• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Complete Electrical failure

A

Aircanuck

Charter Member
After flying the default and analog ( Just flight ) King Air for a couple of hours we suddenly experience a complete electrical failure, the cabin goes dark ?? I've made sure there are no "planned" failures, just happens for no reason, like someone is throwing a switch ?? The PT6 engines are not effected. Anybody struggled with this concern ?


Regards
 
Make sure the inverters and generators are on. With the analog version, you have to flip the gen switches to Reset before they produce output. The click spot for that can be tricky, but if you roll the mouse wheel up, it does the same thing. Also, the start switches don't cut out automatically, so make sure they're off before you taxi.
 
I fell into the "starter switches left ON" trap on the very first flight I made with the BlackSquare KingAir.
I don't remember if I could get the electrics back on, but I aborted my flight to get back to the ground.
The sad thing is that I didn't take the time to play around with the circuit breakers, to see if that could solve anything :/
Just in case, remember you have a failure reset screen on your weather radar ;)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top