HondaJet 13 Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Today I was on a VA flight with the PAX model at Cruise just before descent (about 90%+ of the flight was over) and the left engine went out. The flight was about 1 hour. No warning lights before failure, no engine instrument indication, Temps were below the red range, torque was about 35%, I was not in icing conditions and there was no icing showing on the Config page of the checklist. So can these events be random or is it something I did to the aircraft to cause it? Does wear & tear build up over time? I couldn't find a Hobbs meter so don't know how many hours I have in it but could be about 20 by now. I have no failures set in FSX but I do have "Failures & Icing" turned ON. Wanting to know if I need to be more careful on Take off or something. Thanks Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn 873 Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Random failures should not occur unless You have set so in the FSX failure menu. I have no clue what happened as long as I don´t know what OAT was present, weather and other information. guess that that You might have been in icing conditions without really knowing it. Again I can highly suggest to use the build in Flight Data recorder, cause that would tell You exactly what happens when. It´s a shame that so few seems not to use that feature it´s a top notch learning tool. Finn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HondaJet 13 Posted July 26, 2013 Author Share Posted July 26, 2013 I will now Finn, thanks for the insight about failures. So since there was no icing showing on the last page of the checklist it must have been something I did during the flight that caught up with me. Love flying this plane. Looking forward to your patch to fix the A/P issues. Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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