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Hey y'all! About an hour ago I was parked at Jackson Hole Airport in Wyoming ready to take off to Utah, and I did everything on the checklist and started the engine up. All was fine for a few seconds but then the engine turned off. I kept trying to turn it on, but the oil and fuel pressure would drop and it would turn back off

I can only answer 2 and 3 but I hope I can help.  First off, "Right/Left Closed Traffic" means you are staying in the pattern for touch and goes.  The "Right or Left" part depends on the particular traffic pattern of the airport.  You need to request a full stop.  If the airport was closed you're probably not going to get any response from ATC.  For the other part of the question, just Ctrl+E so that everything comes alive the way you want it to be then save the flight and make it the default.  Next time you start that flight your engine should be on and everything else spun up.

On the first question. If you are using a recip plane then what you need to do if the pressure jumps up is to lean the fuel mixture. You have to rember the altitude at jackson hole is 5,000 feet or so already so any jump in pressure would put you around 10,000 feet or higher. Proper procedure on recip aircraft is to lean the mixture as you gain altitude. With the mixtures set at rich your engine is starving for oxygen.

Thanks for all your help guys! I think I may of pushed Touch and Go instead of Full Stop landing so ATC gave me different directions. Was confused at the moment. But all is good now! Also thanks to gary for the mixture lesson  ;D