Anyone with knowledge of JF C-130? Need help

[Mistro]

I'm new to flying the c-130 and ran into an issue that I don't know if it's a bug, or I'm not monitoring something right. Shortly after takeoff, I notice my speedometer was at zero. This happened to me twice on 2 separate occasions. The first time I thought it was no big deal so I continued flying and a while after the engines just stopped. luckily there was an Island nearby and I made an emergency landing with no power (so proud of myself). The second time I left Panama City, all was well until somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 ft. the speedometer was dead again. So I decided to make a u-turn to the nearest airport and while on approach, the speedometer was working again as I decended below 10,000 ft. So I turned back around to continue my flight and after climbing again the speedometer was back at zero. Another u-turn to land and it was working again after decending. Is there something I should know, or is this a bug?

[Boikat]

Pitot Anti-icing should be "ON", would be my guess.  

[BFMF]

What aircraft package are you talking about?

[Mistro]

What aircraft package are you talking about?

C-130 Hercules from Just Flight. I got the DVD from a retail store. BTW is there a hotkey list for these planes? Don't see none in the manual.

[BFMF]

I'm not familiar with Justflight's aircraft addons, so I couldn't tell you if they model icing conditions, or other realistic engine damage or failures. The manual would get into that more.

[Brett_Henderson]

ummm ..  airspeed indicator.. pitot heat .. C172  :-X

[Mistro]

Thanks everyone. The JustFlight's models are actually by Captain Sim. I also noticed that I had indicated airspeed checked instead of true airspeed. I put it on true airspeed to see the difference, don't know if that had anything to do with it. I will also check out the pilot heat. Again thanks.

[Boikat]

Thanks everyone. The JustFlight's models are actually by Captain Sim. I also noticed that I had indicated airspeed checked instead of true airspeed. I put it on true airspeed to see the difference, don't know if that had anything to do with it. I will also check out the pilot heat. Again thanks.

"True Air Speed" VS "Indicated" is not the problem.  If you get a Herky Bird to an altitude where the airspeed is "0", without using slew and taking a coffee break, I'd like to shake you hand.  ;)  

I'd lay good odds it's the pitot heat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitot_tube

[BFMF]

Its been awhile, but if I remember right, true airspeed is calibrated airspeed corrected for pressure and temperature....or something to that effect....

The airspeed indicator is supposed to display indicated airspeed, not true airspeed...

[Mistro]

Thank you again for your replies. I came to the conclusion that something is wrong with the C-130s I bought. After my last post the engines cut off again in mid flight. Again I got the plane back on the ground and found out that I was out of fuel even though I have FSX set at unlimited fuel in the realism options. It didn't bother me too much because I thought maybe it's time to learn how to manage fuel. Refueled the plane and then the damn flares started shooting out the back for no reason at all. Another thing I tried was to start a fresh flight at another location with another model and it seems the same symptoms tranfered over to the new plane (another c-130). I even unistalled and did a fresh install. This is not the first time flares started randomly shooting out the plane. I will try to contact JustFlight and see if they can help. Otherwise I think I'm done with this buggy piece of software.