A330 messing up again

[DeeJay]

Hey!

The A330 is messing up again at my system. Like every time before, it happened suddenly, but continuously, without having changed anything. It wasn't even after a MSFS 2024 update.

So, what happens:

- Several knobs don't illuminate or don't go extinguish, when pressed. For example: The "FD" button. the "AP1" and "AP2" buttons, the APU buttons, the "CSTR" button,... They are functional, but their state isn't visible, they remain in the state of illumination as they have been when the flight initialized.

- Manually inserting waypoints (into discontinuities) creates a huge mess in the ND. They are not recognized, neither by the FMGC, nor by the AP. However, they do show up in the ND, but "additionally" to the old waypoints. From that point, even the DIR function doesn't overwrite any waypoint before the DIR point. The AP flies it correctly, but the ND shows a mess of casual lines, the more DIR you enter, the more wrong lines.

- Fuel calculation is completely wrong. The FMGC calculates too much consumption, thus showing values up to -90 tons for the destination, however, when I arrive, I have 40 tons too much onboard. I've also got the impression, that the plane ignores time acceleration. So when it flies 2 hours in 4x mode, it burns the fuel for 2 hours, not for 8 hours, as it should.

- The plane "half" starts the engines as soon as the APU bleed is switched on (!), even before the engine mode selector is in IGN/START position. If you then start the engines by procedure, it only starts "the rest", which is basically only a few seconds to full idle.

 

I already have deleted the WASM folder, which resulted in no change. So, I have no idea, which direction I should troubleshoot in. Have you got an idea, what could be so wrong here. Similar things already happened before, then, they have suddenly disappeared (without action), and suddenly came again (and again without any action by my side). Only happens in the A330, no such problems so far in the A350 or the A300.

 

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Dominik

[haza2]

8 hours ago, DeeJay said:

Hey!

The A330 is messing up again at my system. Like every time before, it happened suddenly, but continuously, without having changed anything. It wasn't even after a MSFS 2024 update.

So, what happens:

- Several knobs don't illuminate or don't go extinguish, when pressed. For example: The "FD" button. the "AP1" and "AP2" buttons, the APU buttons, the "CSTR" button,... They are functional, but their state isn't visible, they remain in the state of illumination as they have been when the flight initialized.

- Manually inserting waypoints (into discontinuities) creates a huge mess in the ND. They are not recognized, neither by the FMGC, nor by the AP. However, they do show up in the ND, but "additionally" to the old waypoints. From that point, even the DIR function doesn't overwrite any waypoint before the DIR point. The AP flies it correctly, but the ND shows a mess of casual lines, the more DIR you enter, the more wrong lines.

- Fuel calculation is completely wrong. The FMGC calculates too much consumption, thus showing values up to -90 tons for the destination, however, when I arrive, I have 40 tons too much onboard. I've also got the impression, that the plane ignores time acceleration. So when it flies 2 hours in 4x mode, it burns the fuel for 2 hours, not for 8 hours, as it should.

- The plane "half" starts the engines as soon as the APU bleed is switched on (!), even before the engine mode selector is in IGN/START position. If you then start the engines by procedure, it only starts "the rest", which is basically only a few seconds to full idle.

 

I already have deleted the WASM folder, which resulted in no change. So, I have no idea, which direction I should troubleshoot in. Have you got an idea, what could be so wrong here. Similar things already happened before, then, they have suddenly disappeared (without action), and suddenly came again (and again without any action by my side). Only happens in the A330, no such problems so far in the A350 or the A300.

 

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Dominik

Hello!

Are you running SU3?

Kindest. 

[DeeJay]

Yes, the info at "release notes" says SU 3 - version 1.5.21.0