FSP not recognising emergencies? (and other fun issues)

[Brophmeister]

Just had a great flight from Perth to Hong Kong in my PMDG 747. It was all going well until about the 2/3 mark when my engine #3 oil
pressure hit the red line mark. I remember reading in the FSP manual "What constitutes an emergency?" and oil pressure red lining was
one example given. So I followed the checklist to the leter and then declared an emergency. The landing all went well apart from an
overshoot (retard air traffic control vectored me to a 1600 ft dirt runway...), got the pax out and then ended the flight. After ading the post
flight report I see "You decalred a false emergency, the company recieved a fine etc". Strangely the overshoot wasnt mentioned.

Is this a common issue? What did I do wrong?

Additionally, FSP kes saying that I didnt have my beacon lights on in my PMDG 747. I am absolutely certain the little bugger is on (I dont
have issues with any of the oher lights i.e. taxi, landing etc). How do I rectify this?

Thanks!

[Drew]

it was probably a pmdg failure not a fsp failure. Fsp doesn't recognise other aircrafts failures, just its own failure system.

[rojasjorge98]

Sometimes software just fails sometime for some reason. Ask Dan.

[Brophmeister]

Hmmm, its quite odd. I was silly enough to purchase a well used 747 for my fleet cause it was cheap and so far Ive had something wrong
wit my number 3 engine in some way or another on every flight. Sometimes its something as minor as fuel pump going kaputt all the way
up to problems like in my first post. Not that I'm complaining, I'm rather enjoying going through all the checklists to fix a problem! :P

I might can the complex lights management penalty just temporarily until we can sort the other issue out. Do I recieve a points deduction
for turning on simple lights?

[cph1965]

PMDG has programmed the beacon light of the 747 in a different way. As a result FSP only see this light is not turned on, even it is.
Therefore you have to set the light penalty setting of FSP to "easy". I have not noticed a points deduction when doing this.

It seems your problems with engine 3 are not FSP related. Please have a look at the PMDG menu and reset any failures you might have
set there.

Happy Landings & Always Three Greens!

Christian

[Brophmeister]

No worries cph, thanks for the reply! I'll go and kill complex lights now. Will look into the engine 3 troubles (nothing some gaffa tape and
chewing gum cant fix, surely!)

[Brophmeister]

Killed complex lights penalty, seems to have solved that problem. Shame I had to do that, though. It seems like the oil
prssure/temperature/whatever problem only occurs when I pause and then unpause FS (e.g. after minimising or accesssing a menu). Its
certainly not a PMDG failure as I have them all disabled. I seem to recall seeing another forum st about issues like this a while ago, will
try and dig it up now.