Engine Fire

[olseric]

Figure this one out...I'm descending into Montreal in a DC-9-51 when all of a sudden my warning bell goes off saying, "Fire, right engine."
So I'm looking over the gauges and notice that something isn't quite right. I pull the handle and of course, engine 2 shuts down.

So I declare emergency, land it on the good one nice and fast, no problem, taxi it to the terminal where everyone gets a free slide ride.

End the flight and it says I declared a false emergency! I can't figure that one out...the only thing I can think of is that the warning bell was
false. And yes, FS9 failures are turned off.

Anyone have any sort of similar occurrance?

[SaVas]

Is the aircraft one of those that requires turning its own failures off?

[pagir]

SaVas probably right: you are probably using a plane with built in failures (like this 373 freeware available since 2 weeks: it can generate
its own fire...)

Pagir

[SWAFO]

As Pagir and SaVas mentioned, keep in mind that FSP only recognizes failures or emergencies that IT causes. It's best to keep the
option "Co-Pilot verbally announces emergencies" (or the equivalent... I don't remember the name of this option off hand) turned ON.
This way, you know that an emergency occurs WHEN the co-pilot announces it. Other than that, failures caused by anything other than
FSP (3RD party aircraft add-ons, failure generators, or FS9) won't be recognized by FSP, and as such you will be penalized for them (both
in pilot points and overall PAX rating). It's best to DISABLE all failure options BESIDES FSP.

[DBE]

I concurr!

I'm flying an IFDG A320 and at least twice I experienced a non-FSP related failure.

I got "had" by the first one, but as my faithful co-pilot hadn't noticed the second, I ignored it.. and was right!



Post Edited ( 10-25-05 21:12 )

[olseric]

No, it doesn't have any built in that I'm aware of. It's the SGA model by Eric Cantu. Just searched their forums and see nothing indicating
failures are induced by the aircraft.

The panel isn't anything overly special either...I mean it's nice, but nothing failure inducing.

Unless...it was a false alarm for some strange reason...

[pdjpeter]

olseric wrote:
Figure this one out...I'm descending into Montreal in a DC-9-51 when all of a sudden my warning bell goes off saying, "Fire, right engine."
So I'm looking over the gauges and notice that something isn't quite right. I pull the handle and of course, engine 2 shuts down.

So I declare emergency, land it on the good one nice and fast, no problem, taxi it to the terminal where everyone gets a free slide ride.

End the flight and it says I declared a false emergency! I can't figure that one out...the only thing I can think of is that the warning bell was
false. And yes, FS9 failures are turned off.

Anyone have any sort of similar occurrance?

just out of intrest how do u get those sounds and effects?

[Ryanamur]

I wouldn't be surprise if you had a Temp rise failure (yes, it's FSP). The temp rose high enough to cause the probes to register it as a fire and that triggered the emergency panel to display a fire in the engine. But since the engine was still working, FSP hadn't yet flagged this as an engine failure. Which means that even though you did the right thing, FSP thinks that you jumped the gun in declaring an emergency.

Phil



Post Edited ( 12-06-05 21:00 )