Shutting down 1 engine
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Frosty
SOH-CM-2022
Assuming you don't want to buy a multi-engine throttle quadrant to complement your joystick, I suggest you take a look in the "control assignments" menu, submenu "engine controls". There you can assign different keystrokes to your engines (magnetos, throttle, prop pitch and mixture)
I have a single throttle quadrant but sometimes use a voice control system too. There I can bind the keystrokes to spoken commands, eg. "Engine One" activates the keypresses I have assigned to Engine One. It sounds kinda silly sitting in my living room and saying the commands aloud but it works for me (when nobody is home).
Good luck!
I have a single throttle quadrant but sometimes use a voice control system too. There I can bind the keystrokes to spoken commands, eg. "Engine One" activates the keypresses I have assigned to Engine One. It sounds kinda silly sitting in my living room and saying the commands aloud but it works for me (when nobody is home).
Good luck!
Frosty
SOH-CM-2022
How do you shut off your engines? I simply reduce mixture to idle/cut off and then turn off the magnetos. There's no "shut off engine" key, if that's what you mean.
Just selecting an engine has no effect if you don't follow up with another key press. So after selecting the appropriate engine you can turn it off by reducing the mixture.
Let's say that selecting 'engine one' is keypress '1' and reducing the mixture is key press '- [minus key]'.
If you press the [minus]-key without selecting an engine, you reduce the mixture for all engines. If you select 'engine one' [keypress 1] and then press the [minus]-key, you reduce the mixture only for that particular engine.
I think it is also possible to assign a key to 'mixture engine one' directly, thereby avoiding having to select the engine first, but I could be mistaken. It might have been an axis command where you bind that particular function to an axis of a multi-engine throttle quadrant.
Hope that helps!
Just selecting an engine has no effect if you don't follow up with another key press. So after selecting the appropriate engine you can turn it off by reducing the mixture.
Let's say that selecting 'engine one' is keypress '1' and reducing the mixture is key press '- [minus key]'.
If you press the [minus]-key without selecting an engine, you reduce the mixture for all engines. If you select 'engine one' [keypress 1] and then press the [minus]-key, you reduce the mixture only for that particular engine.
I think it is also possible to assign a key to 'mixture engine one' directly, thereby avoiding having to select the engine first, but I could be mistaken. It might have been an axis command where you bind that particular function to an axis of a multi-engine throttle quadrant.
Hope that helps!
BeauBrummie
Home for tea and tiffin!
mmm. what about Ctrl+shft+F6 that does it for me.
But I've never been able to turn one engine off or affect an individual engine.
Beau.
Frosty
SOH-CM-2022
Lol, like I said; 'mixture control'. In the stock configuration file that's the key assignment for "Mixture Idle_Cut off". If you reduce the mixture to the extent that the engine doesn't get enough fuel, it will shut off...
This key puts the lever directly in the Idle_Cut Off position and not progressively. So yeah, you're also right . But the magnetos and battery switches remain 'on'.@ wsmwsm, don't give up yet!
I haven't been completely...uhm...complete in my instructions. With my voice comand system I have created macro's that have more than a single keypress, so I didn't think enough about it (and I could still be wrong). I forgot to tell you that you also have to deselect the engines you don't want to operate.
I take it you understand about assigning keystrokes to the various functions? There are keystrokes for both selecting and deselecting engines OR you can assign certain axes directly to the desired function.
Let's assume you use keypresses (not axes), you have a four-engined a/c and want to shut down engine #1. Once you have deselected engines #2 to #4, #1 should automatically be the remaining selected engine. Now you can operate the mixture, prop pitch and magneto controls for that engine. To return to #2 to #4, you deselect #1 first and then select engines #2 to #4. This will give you command over the other three engines without altering the settings just made for engine #1. (#2 to #4 were still deselected from the previous action and by deselecting #1 as well, you 'd end up with none selected. If you would simply select #2 to #4 again without deselecting #1 first, you would end up with all engines selected - confusing, isn't it?) I think it was like that anyway...
You can tell which engine is selected by looking at the yellow status messages in the top right corner of your screen. It's all rather cumbersome but hey, I didn't build CFS3
. Fiddle around a bit with this and I am sure you will find how to make the engines behave the way you want.If you still can't find how to operate a single engine, let me know and I 'll try to find another explanation.
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Thanks. Your advise did the trick. I was selecting rather than deselecting the engines. I'm half-way there. I can now shut down a particular engine. (Although, in flight, it seems to take a long while to see the result since the prop keeps going.) Still not certain how to start them up one at a time.
Thanks. Your advise did the trick. I was selecting rather than deselecting the engines. I'm half-way there. I can now shut down a particular engine. (Although, in flight, it seems to take a long while to see the result since the prop keeps going.) Still not certain how to start them up one at a time.
Frosty
SOH-CM-2022
Hey wsmwsm!
Good to hear that!
Actually starting them one by one is exactly the same: you select one engine (you now know how - deselect the others) and start it (stock key "E" or "Shift E", I think). You can also do it manually (much cooler!) by doing the following: open cowl flaps/oil cooler flaps ect. if present, set prop to fine pitch, mixture to full rich and set the throttle an inch or so forward of the Idle_Cut Off position. Flip the battery switch, set the magnetos to both and and press the starter switch until the engine fires. That should do it on most planes. Now you deselect the running engine and select the next one. Repeat the process untill all engines are running. Finally select all engines and you should be good to go.
- Or you can read the fs.pdf (Flight School) in the CFS3 "manuals" folder...
Of course I am not a real-life pilot, CFS3 doesn't model all functions found in a real-life aircraft and the required settings may differ for various aircraft (get a pilot's handbook to learn about that or refer to the CFS3 kneeboard - if applicable), but it's not that difficult in this sim. Starting up the F-16 in Falcon 4.0 is a lot more complicated!!
BTW, after shutting down an engine in flight, feather the prop by reducing the prop pitch. If not, you 'll see it windmilling for ever and exerting a lot of drag. If you feather it, the prop stops turning pretty soon and it will affect your flying less. I 've flown and landed multi-engined a/c with one or two engines out more than once after seeing a Zeno video showing how to and walked away from it.
Good to hear that!
Actually starting them one by one is exactly the same: you select one engine (you now know how - deselect the others) and start it (stock key "E" or "Shift E", I think). You can also do it manually (much cooler!) by doing the following: open cowl flaps/oil cooler flaps ect. if present, set prop to fine pitch, mixture to full rich and set the throttle an inch or so forward of the Idle_Cut Off position. Flip the battery switch, set the magnetos to both and and press the starter switch until the engine fires. That should do it on most planes. Now you deselect the running engine and select the next one. Repeat the process untill all engines are running. Finally select all engines and you should be good to go.
- Or you can read the fs.pdf (Flight School) in the CFS3 "manuals" folder...
Of course I am not a real-life pilot, CFS3 doesn't model all functions found in a real-life aircraft and the required settings may differ for various aircraft (get a pilot's handbook to learn about that or refer to the CFS3 kneeboard - if applicable), but it's not that difficult in this sim. Starting up the F-16 in Falcon 4.0 is a lot more complicated!!
BTW, after shutting down an engine in flight, feather the prop by reducing the prop pitch. If not, you 'll see it windmilling for ever and exerting a lot of drag. If you feather it, the prop stops turning pretty soon and it will affect your flying less. I 've flown and landed multi-engined a/c with one or two engines out more than once after seeing a Zeno video showing how to and walked away from it.