As follow up to the previous "Incidents & Accidents: Crashed off the Atlantic coast..." there have been many hypothesis as to the reason behind the sudden loss of engines and subsequent (virtual) crash.
I can only presume it was fuel starvation but as I mentioned in the post, the a/c had sufficient fuel for a round trip. Months ago I had an issue with Pitot Heat disabled on the same a/c flying an FSX mission. In any case here the problem is that in the 3D virtual cockpit it is very difficult to find some switches. Some switches are just plain unreachable (mainly the virtual joke gets on the way and there is no way to hide it). But then, IF it was the pitot heat then I should have been able to restart engines when I was at a lower altitude but that did not happen. Besides, it was in the tropics so no icing conditions at lower altitudes.
This also highlights yet another problem of FSX (and all FS products), when a crash occurs it simply restarts the flight at some point back leaving you absolutely no chance to examine the virtual wreck, I could have looked at my fuel gauges (Shift+9 but I couldn't find it during the incident). That would be a wonderful feature of the new flight simulator if it ever comes.
To make the story short, I performed the same flight under the same conditions and safely arrived the destination (MPBO) with plenty of fuel to take off again and fly to MPDA.
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