Why does my engine sometimes fail to start?

[SpaydCBR]

Hello all! Still learning the game here.

 

I noticed that sometimes my engine fails to start. I press "I" to start the engine (I remapped the key), I see it go through the whole start-up procedure, the propeller starts for a second then everything shuts off for some reason (goes through the whole shut off procedure).

 

Sometimes it works when I try to start it again, and sometimes it may take a few more tries.

 

Does this happen to anybody else? Is it due to the cold weather or something? How do I avoid this (get it to start first time every time)?

 

Thanks

[Finkeren]

Happens to me once in a while. I think it's just there to add immersion.

[Feathered_IV]

Frequently happens to me too if I join a multiplayer game.  Never had it offline, but one of the reasons is probably because the engine usually seems to be running already.

[Brano]

Are you reffering to soviet designs? During start up procedure the game pulls mixture lever to lean position.When you dont react quickly and leave lever untouched,the engine will die due to lean mixture.

[SpaydCBR]

Are you reffering to soviet designs? During start up procedure the game pulls mixture lever to lean position.When you dont react quickly and leave lever untouched,the engine will die due to lean mixture.

Well I haven't tried flying any soviet planes yet. This has been happening with the bf 109 G2. I haven't played much of anything else to know if it happens with anything else.

[novicebutdeadly]

I fly axis (mainly G2) and notice this happens sometimes.

I think this is part of immersion, in that cold starts were regularly an issue in real life.

[Brano]

Then its what has been mentioned by others - cold start random failure for immersion.It is also present in RoF.

[312_Tygr]

I fly axis (mainly G2) and notice this happens sometimes.

 

I think this is part of immersion, in that cold starts were regularly an issue in real life.

...as they indeed are. For Soviet aircraft the proper (in game) procedure is to first set all the levers as you want them to be after the starting sequence (oil cooler, water cooler, mixture, prop pitch), then engage start sequence ("E"). After the starting sequence is done, all levers will automagically move to where you've set them in the beginning. For German fighters, of course, everything is automagical, for Stuka and He-111 a mixture of both, don't remember exactly.

[6./ZG26_Custard]

 

 

Are you reffering to soviet designs? During start up procedure the game pulls mixture lever to lean position.When you dont react quickly and leave lever untouched,the engine will die due to lean mixture.

 

Yes Brano, if you are flying on expert servers the mixture is lean (0) it took me awhile to figure out what was going on it's the same in the F4 as well as the 111 and the soviet aircraft. It's not happened to me in the G2 or the Ju87 yet, like for some other folks.

[FlatSpinMan]

Can I just say that I really appreciate the thread title. Nice to see one that's not "Engine start up is porked - fix it now or I'll throw my toys out of the pram!!!" or whatever.

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

Its cold out side that's why.

[-TBC-AeroAce]

Can I just say that I really appreciate the thread title. Nice to see one that's not "Engine start up is porked - fix it now or I'll throw my toys out of the pram!!!" or whatever.

Lol

 

I get this aswell but not very often.

 

I was thinking back to early access and there was certain things u had to do"in the Lagg at least" to get it to fire, such as prop pitch to zero, radiators closed, throttle inch forward, mixture to rich. But after they added all the automation graphics/routine.... All that stuff does not matte, I think think?? I kinda miss having to do that stuff.

[SpaydCBR]

Hmm, I guess it's just random and unavoidable then. Thanks for the responses

[[TWB]80hd]

Hmm, I guess it's just random and unavoidable then. Thanks for the responses

 

You can add to the immersion by learning a few choice German curse words though!

[6./ZG26_Custard]

80hd' timestamp='1429733746' post='254563'] You can add to the immersion by learning a few choice German curse words though!

 

No curse words but this maybe useful?

 

Edited April 22, 2015 by OriginalCustard

[Jupp]

~S~ SpayedCBR,

 

Hosts can chose to eliminate cold start failures from happening by using Custom Advanced Settings when they Manage SDS.  

Edited April 23, 2015 by Jupp

[Brano]

You can add to the immersion by learning a few choice German curse words though!

Scheisse Katze und Schweine Hund 

[6./ZG26_5tuka]

Most (everyone I know at least) MP servers have prewarmed engine setting enabled. Thus it's not an issie of cold engine start.

 

There is a randomness in engine start failure which works very odd ingame. Each time you press I a random chance for a sucesfull start is generated within a certain time frame That way engines may start quite early after hitting the starter, very late (sometimes even after the pilot turned ignition off) or not at all.

 

I once had an unlucky day with 4 random engine failures in row in my lagg-3. That was a quite rare occassion but shows theres no limitating factor for randomization.

 

I'd like this feauture if we had the ability to stop the starter sequence and handle everything on our own. Once start failed the pilot automaticly turns everything off which is absurd. He would normally just reprime the engine and give it another go which takes considerably less time.

 

Long story short theres nothing we can do about engine failure randomizeation ingame. On planes with manual engine controlls keep in mind to set them iup properly before starting since tbis also may cause engine starting failures.

Edited April 29, 2015 by Stab/JG26_5tuka