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Hello there,
I have been an FSX fan for the last 9 years off and on. These last few years I have been traveling quite a bit and have been abroad and away from home 300+ days a year. When deployed I tend to stay within my hotel room and spend three to four hours a night unwinding and de-stressing via FSX.

I am having an issue with the Airbus series of aircraft (both FSX stock and freeware DLC alike) This may be a very rudimentary fix, so please bear with me. All Airbus aircraft have a tendency (with me anyway) to have the engines spool up autonomously and become uncontrollable (runaway and unable to throttle back) especially when engines are just above idle as I am setting up for the approach.

Please forgive me if there is another thread dealing with this or similar issues. The forums are massive and after 20+ minutes of research I came up with nothing.

Thank you in advance for your consideration on this issue,


Robby

catadjusterx wrote:Hello there,
I have been an FSX fan for the last 9 years off and on. These last few years I have been traveling quite a bit and have been abroad and away from home 300+ days a year. When deployed I tend to stay within my hotel room and spend three to four hours a night unwinding and de-stressing via FSX.

I am having an issue with the Airbus series of aircraft (both FSX stock and freeware DLC alike) This may be a very rudimentary fix, so please bear with me. All Airbus aircraft have a tendency (with me anyway) to have the engines spool up autonomously and become uncontrollable (runaway and unable to throttle back) especially when engines are just above idle as I am setting up for the approach.

Please forgive me if there is another thread dealing with this or similar issues. The forums are massive and after 20+ minutes of research I came up with nothing.

Thank you in advance for your consideration on this issue,


Robby

This is strange to say the least. If this is only happening in the air bus series than something has really gone wrong. Have you opened up the throttle view to see if the levers go up as the engines throttle up? If the levers do not move and the engines are throttling up than something is wrong with the drivers of your joystick
I would suggest to start out in a air bus start the engines than using your joystick throttle the engines up and down if they start to run away as you state change aircraft to another jet and see if you can now control the engines. If so than something has happened to your airbus files and somehow got corrupt. if you can still not control the engines after switching than you may have joy stick problems. trying using F1 this should bring the engines back to idle,
If pressing F1 does nothing than it might be time to uninstall and reinstall FSX.
Pressing CONTROL shift and F1 should shut down the engines.
If that does not work than you need to uninstall and reinstall FSX as it has gotten messed up big time.

Is your auto throttle turned off as you reach final approach?

I would say the same as Pegger. Happened to me for ages as the Airbus autopilot seems to work a little differently. Make sure Auto throttle is off as well as A/P. Auto braking max as you reverse thrust. IRL Pilots are encouraged to switch A/P off during final approach.

I had that happen to me once in a 777 on approach into Seattle but it was my fault, I did not have pitot heat on in a snow storm while auto pilot still on. Airspeed was minimum and engines went full throttle.

Rick

Good point. make sure Pitot heater on. Cause of 1 disastrous Vulcan take off in Arizona of all places back in the '60's.