DC-6B help

[Cole Hermann]

Greetings All,
I am attempting to obtain my Retro rating here and am running into a snag that I think you guys might be able to help me with.

In FS9 everything loads correctly, so I am guessing its a procedural error. I start the flight with a cold & dark cockpit. After kicking the tires on the walk around, I follow the checklist to light the fires, but nothing roars to life. Is there a trick that I am missing??

-Cole

[Wayne Pierce]

Cole, these FS airplanes are very cantakerous animals. I always have problem starting. Following the checklist is a good necessary evil, but sometimes it just won't work.
Make sure the fuel pressure gauge has pressure on it. If you just can't get it going then try the autostart,ctrl-E, and let the engines start up. For some reason if once you get it started then the FS program remembers that and it will start up most other times. If you use separate throttle, mixture controls and prop pitch you have to make sure the prop and the mixture controls are activating the airplane controls put them in full rich and unfeathered position.
This is usually what I have to do. When starting these things I usually have to load up a default aircraft, Prop driven, and start it and then reload the DC6. Most of the time this helps. I even have to reload the aircraft right after I push the start button. I have the aircraft reload keys set to ctrl-A and use it and the engines start up right after the button is pushed. Go figure.

Make sense? try load a default prop plane first then use autostart a few times.

I injoy the manual method of starting the prop airplanes but FS programs get in the way. I have the MAAM simn DC3's and they work fine in FS9. The patches allow is to fly in FSX, but the starting quit. One has to change the fuel specs in the CFG files to get them to work. They just won't autostart in the program. I have to do what I said above.

Good Luck

Wayne

[Cole Hermann]

Will the auto start dock me a few points on the check ride?