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Post by beeker46 on Jan 24, 2020 9:34:08 GMT -5
Previously this was not an issue, and I changed nothing anywhere, but today this affects the DC-6B and all the DC-7s...
No oil.
When I started up the -6B, the oil system lights kept flashing, so I checked the pop up panel and saw that gauge(s) were showing zero oil quantity. The engines started up and ran fine, but I have had experience in real life running out of oil in a car engine... (not good). I loaded up the CV-240, but could not find any gauge showing oil quantity. I was at KDAL and tried to request a fuel truck, but was told none were available at that airport. I checked the aircraft.cfg file and found nothing pertaining to oil quantity. So, is this a case of lazy mechanics not putting in any oil, or is there an entry lacking somewhere that somehow got omitted....?
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Post by Pixel Pilot on Jan 24, 2020 10:12:45 GMT -5
Sorry beeker46 this one's on the Captain. That's you isn't it? What to do is on the ground with the engines off move the mouse pointer over the oil quantity gauge. The tool tip will say click to add oil. So go ahead and click and you should have a full tank of oil. 50 gals. on the DC-6B. Click on the gauge for all four engines of course. Happy flying.
Pixel Pilot
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jan 24, 2020 10:27:22 GMT -5
The shortcut way to do this is to use the CalClassic Fuel Planner to add/subtract some fuel to the plane. This automatically fills the oil tanks too.
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Post by beeker46 on Jan 24, 2020 10:32:41 GMT -5
hee hee, blame it on mechanics...
For some reason, the fuel planner does not work for me.. I previously had the FS9 version installed into FSX and the fuel planner worked fine, but had shading issues recently, so I downloaded the FSX updated version and the fuel planner has not worked since. I will try Pixel's idea, but I would like to get that fuel planner working again, too... It is odd that this happened today, when yesterday that same DC-6B had plenty of oil...
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jan 24, 2020 12:16:16 GMT -5
All the DC-6s and DC-7s "share" the same oil level, so if it runs out on one plane, it will run out on all the others too.
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Post by beeker46 on Jan 24, 2020 12:22:50 GMT -5
I have employed the 'click to add oil' solution, and all is well now. I will try something to solve the fuel planner issue, but at least I know now how to correct the oil problem. Just never had the oil run out like that before, lol...
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Post by Tom/CalClassic on Jan 24, 2020 13:46:17 GMT -5
Hi,
When you installed the new FSX version, did you remember to install FSUIPC again? Even if present it will not be activated unless you re-edit the dll.xml file (or let FSUIPC do it by re-installing it).
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Post by beeker46 on Jan 24, 2020 16:38:57 GMT -5
I will do that, I had not re-installed FSUIPC, so I will give that a go... thanks for the heads-up
edit: downloaded and installed fsuipc, no change to the fuel planner not working. Deleted fsuipc completely, re-installed, again no change. No worries, at least I won't run out of oil again, i know what to do there...
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