Solved Engine shutting down during TE missions
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I’ve recently swapped out my controllers for a TM Cougar setup. I’ve followed the detailed instructions for using this stick and throttle. Everything seems to be working properly in setup. I have all the axis setup and working. All the buttons (minus the shifted) have been confirmed in setup. When I get underway in say the navigation or landing TE about 20 seconds in the F-16 loses all power and just starts gliding. I have to end the session at this point. Any idea what might be happening here to cause this? It acts like I’ve just shutdown the jet by pulling the throttle all the way past the idle detent to zero throttle. Thanks for any assistance. I’m running windows 11 and bms 4.36.1.
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@jayb %$*$###@! just realized what I did. I had the idle set for AB and the AB set for idle. AHHHH! Your picture gave it away for me. Thanks trying it now reversed!
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Seems like a wrong setting of the idle threshold…
Check your config in BMS…
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@luvtofish With missions that start airborne you need to “wake up” the throttle with a full movement forward and back and then placing it at the desired thrust level. Maybe that is what you are missing ?
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@jayb Do I take it all the way past AB and all the way back past idle detent and then back to desired thrust level?
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I do not have Idle detent set on the throttle axis (too high a risk), but yes that is what I do. You could experiment and see if you really need the full movement forth and back. It may not need that, since it will read your axis position on the throttle scale
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@jayb I have woken it up by going full afterburner and the jet picks up speed. When I pull back to half throttle it begins dropping speed to below 400 CAS. A few seconds later the jet powers down.
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Sounds like you hit the idle detent through that movement backwards. If you show a picture of your throttle mapping from Setup-Controllers, it could help. Like this:
Notice how my Idle (red line) is not active through the throttle. I use a keystroke (Alt+I) since I rarely need it - no more than two times over a mission
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@jayb I actually have my idle detent set. I did not go below it since I would have to cross the double click on the Cougar TQS. I’m at half throttle when it shuts down.
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@luvtofish From the picture, it seems like you have swapped the detents. The green line is afterburner, the red one is idle. You should swap those around. You want the green afterburner at 80% or so, so somewhere at the top.
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@jayb %$*$###@! just realized what I did. I had the idle set for AB and the AB set for idle. AHHHH! Your picture gave it away for me. Thanks trying it now reversed!
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Topic has been marked as solved L luvtofish
