Engine Malfunction - Looking for advice
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Hello, I’ve had the Caravan Pro for a couple of weeks now, and it has become my favorite aircraft in MSFS 2024. I’ve flown it for around 48 hours over the last few days, and this happened to me yesterday (video attached). I’m trying to figure out what I did wrong.
I was adjusting the propeller RPM and power, and suddenly I lost the engine. I think the ITT was in the yellow range on the gauge, but that’s not unusual when I try to squeeze a bit more performance out of the aircraft during long flights.
What surprised me the most was that the STANBY ALT INOPT indicator came on, and when I checked the aircraft tablet, the engine didn’t seem to show any failures, at least I think so.
Any suggestion or idea that could help me learn how to avoid this or fix it?
Thank you very much. I love this aircraft, and congratulations on an outstanding product.
The YouTube link is unlisted; I couldn’t find any other way to send it.
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Thanks for the video. That's always immensely helpful. Given that my tablet shows no engine damage, and you received the message on the screen, this appears to be a failure triggered by MSFS 2024's native wear and tear system. The only alternative is that this was a MTBF catastrophic engine failure, which should statistically only happen once in every 500,000 for the Caravan. Unfortunately, your video didn't show the failures page, because that would have been useful to rule out.
Do you have v1.1 of the Caravan? I eliminated one source of the MSFS 2024 wear and tear system causing interference with my aircraft in that update. The native wear and tear system is largely a black box to us developers, with little guidance as to what configuration parameters and variables are used to generate damage, so it's entirely possible that there is something else interfering that nobody else has hit yet. I will try to reproduce this later with the near-redline ITT myself.
In the meantime, enabling "disable airframe stress damage" in the MSFS menu (yes, airframe stress damage, not engine damage...) should prevent this from happening in the future.
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Unfortunately, I wasn't able to reproduce this, but I'm interested in the ITT discrepancy I observed between my testing and your video at the same configuration, including the bleed air valve and ambient air temperature. I saw 705°C ITT, and 290 PPH FF, compared to your 785°C and 380 PPH FF. That's quite the difference! Also, your elevator trim is almost against the nose-up stop! I'm so confused, haha.
