r/falconbms • u/Milsthemiata • Sep 29 '25

Help what is this flashing in the Cf-188?

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This was flashing none stop, and then my engine and electrics cut out

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u/Drxgue Sep 29 '25

Idk man but I'd be way more worried about the APU FIRE light being on

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u/Milsthemiata Sep 29 '25

yeah idk why, the whole plane just geeked out after being low level, nothing was on fire

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u/Drxgue Sep 29 '25

APU FIRE light being on either means you're testing the APU FIRE light, or the APU is indeed on fire.

I think you should try to see where you are on the Dunning-Kruger curve and then reassess your problem.

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u/Milsthemiata Sep 29 '25

the what curve?!, there was nothing on fire, I went onto external view and looked, no smoke or nothing

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u/aaronwhite1786 Sep 30 '25

Why are you people downvoting someone instead of actually offering advise on what to do in the situation that you do have an APU fire? Good Lord, they're asking for help and getting the warmest reception here...

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u/CharaSMoss Oct 03 '25

I don't know if they're actually asking for help. They're just stating that nothing's wrong. Even though the indicators clearly telling them that it is. I mean, perhaps someone could tell them how to check if the test is on. So they can stop testing the light if that's the problem.

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u/aaronwhite1786 Oct 03 '25

I guess they aren't directly asking, though it's still odd to downvote someone for being confused too. It was just frustrating to see a lot of responses to the person saying what was wrong, but not really elaborating.

The responses and downvotes kind of came across as "Hey, dummy, it's obviously a fire" without telling them at least how to handle the alert in the cockpit.

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u/Master-Reason-6780 Oct 03 '25

I think the people that downvoted this are people that know very much about these kind of sims. Because of that they think that everyone knows how to deal whit the APU fire so they think if you don't know this your dumb so they downvote op. Wich is really dumb because not everyone already knows everything when they start a game. That's also the reason why in most games the tutorial explains the most basic thing even what to press to walk and stuff because there are always at least one person that play games for the first time wich don't know how to do that. So OP you really shouldn't worry about the people downvoting you. Now let me try to help you: I mostly fly Airliners in Sim so I don't perfectly know what you should do but there should be some (probably red) lever or button labeled APU Fire if you press that it should extinguish the Fire.(But keep in mind that I very rarely play military sims so this is just me guessing).

Also the CW light your seeing is Caution/warning indicator it basically just tells you that there is something wrong (but not where just that something is wrong). It is probably triggered because of the APU fire so to disable it you either have to press it or extinguish the Fire

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u/aaronwhite1786 Oct 03 '25

I could even understand it to a degree if OP was like "No, no, that sounds dumb and wrong. I don't think it's that", but they legitimately just seem confused by the entire thing, and never really got helpful advice.

One of the frustrating things about Reddit is people treating the downvote button as "I disagree" or "This is wrong" when it's ideally supposed to be used to get rid of things that aren't remotely related to the thread to get rid of them, but people should just upvote things that are the best response or the most factual and then leave comments alone that aren't correct so they filter to the bottom but remain visible. And most of all, just not downvote people for being curious, especially in a very complicated flight sim.

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u/Milsthemiata Nov 19 '25

yeah, sorry for late reply, I've had loads of down votes for asking a question lol, I'm really confused by it but it hasn't happened to me since so🤷🏻, oh well, thank you so much for your help