Restart after flameout?

[Pirateguillermo]

I'm running in career mode, normal difficulty. I've got a contract to take a crew report at 19.6 km over a point, so I built a spaceplane to do it (since my ability to hit a point not on the equator at a particular altitude is shaky, with a rocket). I've unlocked the Wheesley jet, and decided to strap a couple of those on and take them for a spin.

Mk-1 cockpit, 2x FL-T800 tanks, "Swivel" rocket engine constitutes the fuselage. I put small retractable landing gear on the cockpit, put two "B" wing connectors on the sides with two Elevon 1 on each. Stuck engine nacelles on the ends of the wings, with a Wheesley on the back of each one and a small retractable landing gear on the bottom of each nacelle. Set up actions so that I can switch off the jets and on the rocket and vice-versa while in flight.

The flight plan goes, start out on jets and cruise to the destination zone, at about 6km altitude. Switch over to rocket and go up to 19.6 km and take the reading. Switch back to jets and come back down. However, on the descent, the jets never ignite! I've done this before with the Juno and had no problem. Is there something special about the Wheesley that means it can't recover from flameout?

[Rocket In My Pocket]

The Rocket engine may have used up all the available liquid fuel in the tanks?

I usually spam the button as I come down when running similar missions, but as far as I know it should ignite automatically when it get's enough air as long as it's engaged.

Best of luck!

[Pirateguillermo]

That's a good thought, and I should have included the fuel levels in my description. The rocket uses up all the *oxidizer* but there's still liquid fuel left.

I saw another thread that talks about a known bug where there are parts clipping into a fuel tank and that leads to a weird infinite fuel / no flow situation, so I'm about to try the mission again with a rebuilt plane, making sure that nothing is budged up tight.

[Rocket In My Pocket]

If you still don't have any luck try to post a screenshot, it would really help myself or someone else to diagnose the problem. Good luck!

[Pirateguillermo]

Apparently there was some rogue clipping in the original plane. My rebuilt plane works as expected, so somehow I was triggering that bug.