hendopow 0 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Hi, I just got the Airbus X a couple of days ago and have not been able to complete a flight yet. The problem I'm having is fuel seems to be leaking from my left tank then my right one. Sometimes it would happen inflight and just now it happened only after a few minutes of taxiing in Vancouver. This is my first time in an Airbus aircraft however I'm using the checklist and the co-pilot and I don't know if I'm missing something or its a bug of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleD 1027 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Hi, Must say this is a new one..... Few questions to start off with: 1. What version and hotfixes do you currently have installed? (and did you install as administrator?) 2. Did you use the Airbus X Extended Fuel Planner to load your fuel? 3. Did you by mistake hit the default FSX 'fuel dump' command? (I don't think that actually works with the Extended but as this is something I don't think we've ever seen before, can't hurt to ask) 4. Does this happen on the Step by Step tutorial flight if you follow it by the letter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendopow 0 Posted January 23, 2013 Author Share Posted January 23, 2013 Hey Kyle, 1. I have V1.03b and have not downloaded any hotfixes. 2. Yes I use the Fuel Planner 3. Control+Shift+D is my fuel dump command so I don't think its that 4. Yes it has happened during the Step by Step tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleD 1027 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Okay, have you tried a complete uninstall and reinstall as administrator? If you've not already, that seems to be the route to take currently. As a side-note, do you have any addons installed like FSPassengers or AccuFeel that could cause this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendopow 0 Posted January 23, 2013 Author Share Posted January 23, 2013 I've already uninstalled and reinstalled and no, I don't have FSPassengers or AccuFeel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyleD 1027 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Alright, new course then. If you will when you have a few minutes, load up the Step by Step, and use the Fuel Planner to load 8,700 kg of fuel. - Take a screenshot of your E/WD and ECAM Fuel page like above. - Start the engines, and get through After Start Checklist and before you start taxiing take the same shot. - Start taxiing and take another shot. - Takeoff if you can and take another. The purpose is for us to see if there are any abnormalities in the loading and fuel usage during these steps, to hopefully see and/or narrow the cause down. As I said before, this is a completely new one for those of us on and reading this right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendopow 0 Posted January 23, 2013 Author Share Posted January 23, 2013 Ok, Fuel Planner : Before Start: After Start: And you can see by the zulu time to the right how long I'd been taxiing before the fuel started leaking: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Che. 1601 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 The images are too small. Please upload larger ones, if you cant upload due to the limit, zip the files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendopow 0 Posted January 23, 2013 Author Share Posted January 23, 2013 They come up fine for me. Here's the links to them in the same order. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendopow 0 Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 Attempted a flight from Montreal to Barbados. This time I got to 40 minutes and at FL370 just off the coast of Boston fuel started leaking again. Still haven't completed a flight yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Che. 1601 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Attempted a flight from Montreal to Barbados. This time I got to 40 minutes and at FL370 just off the coast of Boston fuel started leaking again. Still haven't completed a flight yet The images are still too small!! I cant even read the text of the images. Please zip the images and upload it here or dropbox etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbd80 258 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 The images are still too small!! I cant even read the text of the images. Please zip the images and upload it here or dropbox etc. Are you sure Joshua? I can read the text on the images quite clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendopow 0 Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 Here's the zipped folder. https://www.dropbox..../New folder.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbd80 258 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 From the screenshots it looks like fuel is only being fed from the left fuel tanks and then x-fed from the right tanks. How do you start your flight ie. do you select another aircraft before selecting the Airbus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendopow 0 Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 I had a friend look at the images aswell and they seemed fine to him. Chris, No I don't think I have ever done that though I do know what you mean. I'll try it. Also it is always the right tank that leaks fuel first then the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Che. 1601 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Can you do this. First load a default aircraft, then load the airbus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendopow 0 Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 Prepared for a flight YVR-LAX. Loaded up at the gate in the default trike then switched to the A320CFM. However I only made it as far as I did in my first image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Che. 1601 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Prepared for a flight YVR-LAX. Loaded up at the gate in the default trike then switched to the A320CFM. However I only made it as far as I did in my first image. Right. Try a default 737 instead of a trike and see whether you got the fuel leak. if you still have the fuel leak, I am sure this addon is not the only addon with fuel leak problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendopow 0 Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 OK so. I got to roughly the same point in my first image again. Both tanks had roughly 3500kg in them. The left started going down however as I waited for the warning signs to come on and the engines to shutdown I noticed it had stopped at about 1500kg with the right tank untouched. I went into the FSX fuel page and set it back up to 3500kg and was able to get to 08R for the first time and takeoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendopow 0 Posted January 26, 2013 Author Share Posted January 26, 2013 Nope..still having the problem. I also installed V1.4. Same thing as before taxied for about 5 minutes and then the left leaks, tried filling it up again but it continued to leak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrijan 193 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Did you try reinstalling FSX? I had the similar issue before with all my other planes, but I didn't fly on FSX a lot. And then something got screwed up and when Airbus X Ext came out I reinstalled FSX and it didn't happen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendopow 0 Posted January 26, 2013 Author Share Posted January 26, 2013 I don't have this issue with any other plane I'm currently flying. Just AXE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbd80 258 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Which variant of the Airbus are you using, does it happen with all of them? Also, just to confirm, are all the fuel pump lights on the overhead panel extinguished? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendopow 0 Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 I just tried it out with the A321 this time and tried the same flight. I got up to FL370 and a couple minutes past KSEA fuel started to leak in the same way. I've also been keeping an eye on the fuel panel and no lights are on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deputy Sheriffs jrotaetxe 242 Posted January 27, 2013 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted January 27, 2013 This failure is so repetitive that a "phantom key" shoud be discard. Do not know if the AXE has a command to leak fuel in case you arrive very heavy, and if it is mapped to a key or key combination. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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