Post by Chris Dittmar on Jun 19th, 2006 at 11:38am
K the levers in the red circles are what you are doing wrong. You must make sure they are all the way FORWARD before landing, taking off or performing any ground operations. At ALL times the C-130 is on the ground they must be full forward or your engines will cut off. Note -- this is confirmed by the white lettering printed on the panel - "Ground Cutoff"
As one of my tests while taking these screenshots, I selected "ignore crashes" and purposefully plowed my nose intothe runway -- no cutoff. Did another pattern run and did same with these levers puleld back JUST a touch -- immediate flameout.
Hope this helps, as this is NOT a bug -- it's the way she's supposed to act if you have the levers in "Ground Cutoff"
IMPORTANT NOTE!!! if you have crash detection ON, this does not mean that having the levers forward will prevent flameout in case of definite crashes -- other conditions may cause this as well, but based on the descriptions above, you may want to monitor and make sure your condition levers are FULL FORWARD when landing.
FYI -- this is also a real world C-130 procedure as with all turboprops - civilian and military - as this gives you efficient RPMs to perform a quick go-around if needed.