X-Plane 11 Failures and emergencies are probably one of the most powerful tools in a flight simulator. It’s something so powerful that it can do it better job teaching you, than a real plane could… Well, I’m sure a real plane can do it better, but you don’t want to be in that plane when it happens. It might be just a little too real.
But in all honesty, flight sim allows you to practice situations that can’t be practiced in a real plane. It allows you to get into sticky situations and see how you would get out of it. Now, that is a good tool if you ask me.
So, hopefully I have peaked your interest and you now want to give this a try. Let’s find out how to setup failures and force us to do a few emergency landings in X-Plane 11.
What are the Different Ways to Set this Up?
So like many things, there are a few different ways to set up your failures. You can set it up to have it go at a random intervals, which is definitely my favorite. Another couple options are that you can have it happen at a specific altitude, a specific airspeed, have it fail on a keystroke, have it fail at an exact time or even have it fail immediately. The options are pretty amazing as this really gives you some room to have some fun.
Where do I Access the Failure Menu?
There are two locations to access the failure menu. The first being before you start your flight and the second being after a flight is in progress.
First Location for the Failure Menu
As you start your flight, go to a new flight and go to the section to choose your aircraft.
Once in this section, select the customize option that is below the aircraft you wish to fly.
Then click on the Failure button that is in the bottom left corner of the screen.
At this point you will see a large list of Failures to choose from.
Second Location for the Failure Menu
The second way to select a failure is in flight. Once you are flying, go to the top menu and select Flight.
Then you will locate an option called Edit failures. Click on this.
This should bring you to the failure menu.
As you can see, I selected the Engine fire 1, Engine flameout 1 and the engine fail 1. This is a bad day of flying but again, something you you can practice without putting yourself in extreme danger.
Well, there you have it, that is all you need to know in order to get a failure setup in X-Plane 11. So get out there and force yourself to do some emergency landings!
Below, I will list every failure that is possible, so if you are interested in that, keep reading.
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What Failure Options Do I have?
So, as I mentioned before, you have a few options for each item. You can set the Global MTBF and have it apply a random failure upon it’s choosing at a random interval. This is a nice realistic option, however it doesn’t give you much control. If you are planning to have something fail to practice, then I suggest the individual failure options listed below.
There are a lot of options, so let me list them here for you.
- World
- Control lock still in
- door still open
- External power still on
- passenger 0-2 on
- fuel cap left off
- Water in fuel
- Fueled with wrong gas
- Fuel tank vent block #1
- Fuel tank vent block #2
- VASI/PAPI lights
- runway lights
- Bird strike
- Microburst
- Smoke in cockpit
- Brown-out
- System
- Autopilot
- Yaw damper
- Autopilot computer
- Autopilot runaway
- Autopilot servos
- Autopilot aileron servo
- Autopilot elevator servo
- Autothrottle
- Stability augmentation
- Airbus to Alternate Law
- Airbus to Direct Law
- Controls
- Yaw control inop left
- Yaw control 1 hard left
- Yaw control 2 hard left
- Ya control inop right
- Yaw control 1 hard right
- Yaw control 2 hard right
- Roll control inop left
- Roll control 1 hard left
- Roll control 2 hard left
- Roll control inop right
- Roll control 1 hard right
- Roll control 2 hard right
- Pitch control inop up
- Pitch control 1 hard up
- Pitch control 2 hard up
- Pitch control inop down
- Pitch control 1 hard down
- Pitch control 2 hard down
- Rudder trim actuator
- Aileron trim actuator
- Elevator trim actuator
- Rudder trim runaway
- Aileron trim runaway
- Elevator trim runaway
- Slats
- Flap actuator system
- Left flap activate
- Right flap activate
- Left flap remove
- Right flap remove
- De-Ice
- De-ice: detector
- De-ice: all systems
- De-ice: window heat
- De-ice: brake heat
- De-ice: pitot heat 1
- De-ice: pitot heat 2
- De-ice: static heat 1
- De-ice: static heat 2
- De-ice: AOA heai 1
- De-ice: AOA heat 2
- De-ice: wing heat left
- De-ice: wing heat right
- De-ice: engn alt air 1
- De-ice: engn alt air 2
- De-ice: inlet heat 1
- De-ice: prop heat 1
- Electrical
- Electrical bus #1
- Electrical bus #2
- Generator 1
- Battery 1
- Generator 1 lo volt
- Generator 1 hi volt
- Generator 2 lo volt
- Generator 2 hi volt
- Battery 1 lo volt
- Battery 1 hi volt
- Battery 2 lo volt
- Battery 2 hi volt
- Equipment
- HVAC system
- Bleed air: left engine
- Bleed air: right engine
- Bleed-air: APU
- slow depressurization
- Rapid depressurization
- Elec hydraulic pump
- Engine-driven hydraulic pump #1
- leak hydraulic system #1
- Leak hydraulic system #2
- Overpressure hydraulic system #1
- Overpressure hydraulic system #2
- Throttle jam at idle
- Throttle jam at max
- Throttle jam at current
- Prop sync
- Auto-feather
- Tail-rotor transmission
- Electric dual-winding A-94
- Electric dual-winding A-93
- Landing Gear
- Left brakes
- Right brakes
- Landing gear tire
- Landing gear tire
- Landing gear tire
- Lights
- Navigation lights
- Strobe light
- Beacon light
- Taxi lights
- Landing lights
- Instrument lights
- Floodlight
- HUB lights
- Instruments
- Engine
- RPM 1
- Manifold pressure 1
- Torque 1
- CHT 1
- ITT 1
- EGT 1
- Fuel flow 1
- Fuel pressure 1
- Oil pressure 1
- Oil temp 1
- G1000
- GIA 1
- GIA 2
- GEA
- ADC
- AHRS
- G1000 airspeed
- G1000 altimeter
- G1000 magntmtr
- G1000 vvi
- Generator 1 amp indication
- Generator 2 amp indication
- Battery 1 amp indication
- Battery 2 amp indication
- Bus 1 volt indication
- Bus 2 volt indication
- G1000 PFD pilot-side
- G1000 PFD copilot-side
- G1000 MFD
- G430
- GPS receiver in Garmin 430 #1
- GPS receiver in Garmin 430 #2
- Nav/com in Garmin 430 #1
- Nav/com in Garmin 430 #2
- Navigation
- nav/Com-1 radio
- Nav/Com-2 radio
- Nav-1 radio
- Nav-2 radio
- Com-1 radio
- Com-2 radio
- ADF 1
- ADF 2
- GPS 1
- GPS 2
- DME
- Localizer antennae
- Glideslope antennae
- WAAS GP receiver
- Transponder
- Marker beacons
- Primary
- Pilot airspeed indicator
- Pilot artificial horizon
- Pilot altimeter
- Pilot turn indicator
- Pilot heading indicator
- Pilot vertical velocity
- Copilot airspeed indicator
- Copilot artificial horizon
- Copilot altimeter
- Copilot turn indicator
- Copilot heading indicator
- Copilot vertical velocity
- EFIS PFD
- EFIS MFD
- AOA indicator
- Stall warning system
- Sensor
- Vacuum pump #1
- Vacuum pump #2
- Electric gyro #1
- Electric gyro #2
- Pitot-tube #1 blockage
- Pitot-tube #2 blockage
- Static-port #1 error
- Static-port #2 error
- OAT sensor
- Fuel quantity sensor
- Engines
- Accessory
- Throttle governor 1
- Engine FADEC 1
- Oil pump 1
- Chip detect 1
- Failures
- Left magneto 1
- Right magneto 1
- Engine fire 1
- Engine flameout 1
- Engine fail 1
- Engine seperation 1
- Fuel/Air
- Engine-driven fuel pump 1
- Electric fuel pump 1
- Fuel flow restricted 1
- Air flow restricted 1
- Fuel flow fluctuation 1
- Prop
- Engine drive shaft 1
- Engine seize 1
- Start
- Wings
- Left wing 1
- Right wing 1
- Left wing 2
- Right wing 2
- Left wing 3
- Right wing 3
- Left H Stab
- Right H Stab
- Vert Stab 1
- Octo-Rotors
- Vector actuator failure
- Upper rotors controller failure
- Lower rotors controller failure
- Upper rotors battery failure
- Lower rotors battery failure
- Cascade rotor failure left-fore
- Cascade rotor failure right-fore
- Cascade rotor failure left-aft
- Cascade rotor failure right-aft