When is cpl_mayday.wav played?

[cph1965]

Hello!

When do you hear the wav files cpl_mayday.wav and cpl_maydaydone.wav?

I have set the chance to have a failure to 100%.
After starting the engine during the 40% power test I noticed that one engine did not spool up.
So I called mayday (Ctrl + Alt + M) .
Here I thought that that the copilot should say anything but he did not. Just as I would not have called mayday.
I have been in the 2D cockpit and did not change the view.
After ending the FSP flight (of course there was no flight to be done after this failure) the report told me that I got 500 bonus points for
handling this failure correct - only the passengers where not happy about this event.

My problem is that when using FS2004 somethimes my keyboard freezes Therefore if no feedback comes after a mayday call I do not
know if FSP has received this command or not. When the keyboard is to be feezed I need to push the Ctrl and Shift buttons several times
and then the keyboard works again. Sometimes it helps when right clicking the mouse and close the popup window afterwards.

So when should the files cpl_mayday.wav and cpl_maydaydone.wav in the Folder FsPassengers\Sound\CrewPack\Default be played?
Or what should happen after calling mayday from the FSP program side?

Thank you very much in advance of your answers!

Happy Landings & Always Three Greens!

Christian

[Anastasios]

You can only call a mayday when you are in the air.

If your engine doesn't spool up on the ground, that's not an emergency. That's just a technical failure and you discovered it before it could become
an emergency.

A mayday can only be declared when you are in the air.

Anastasios.

[cph1965]

Hallo Anastatios!

Thank you for your answer!

But now I am confused.

The manual states that whenever a failure occurs you need to call a mayday that the FSP program knows you are aware of this failure and
that you will not be penalized.

Further in the manual I can read:
While running up the engines prior to take-off you notice that the engines have asymmetrical thrust. You must abort the flight immediately
and click "end flight". This is the ONLY case in FsPassengers where you may end your flight without taking off...

When I tried to end the flight with having this spooling up failure without calling a mayday I got only the possibility to abort or to continue
the flight but not end it with the chance of saving this flight.
After having done the mayday call I could end the flight with the possibibilty to save it.
So the mayday call was needed in this situation, too.

Happy Landings & Always Three Greens!

Christian

[ameval]

so now I'm confused too, I know a mayday can only be call while being in the air but so if you have an engine failure while taxing what
would you tell the atc: '"This is (call sign), reporting engine failure requesting taxi back to the gates" something like that right?

[Anastasios]

In real life you will probably just let ATC know that you have some problems with an engine and that you are going to return to the gate.

There is no emergency, so you don't call a mayday.

Say, for example, that there is a sudden fire on board and you need to evacuate, the pilots will just let the ATC know:
"... is evacuating, fire on board". For example.

@cph1965:

I thought it wasn't necessary, but I'm not sure now.
Maybe one of the mod's can answer this question.

Anastasios.

[DanSteph]

If you had only "continue&abort" this mean it was not an "assymetrical failure"

Anyway in this case you don't need to call a mayday.

Dan