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I am doing a long flight in Chuck Domes beechcraft BE35 bonanza (V tail). I landed in Cairo, Egypt, shut it down, and saved. now when I go back to that saved flight, I cannot get my airplane to sart! even with "auto start" ctrl+E. fuel selector is not set to 'off'. anyone know what is going on? talk about "as real as it gets", do I need a sim-mechanic?

..Hi CH.....don't know the plane or just how it is set up but why not try reselecting the aircraft .......Better save the flight before you shut down maybe eh?..commoner

I had that, too. It may be the battery, that hasn

It happened to me once. After a long time is discovered that I was out of fuel.

Definately a flat battery! Or you haven't opened the fuel cock (no names mentioned for this mistake the other day )

Check fuel valve  AND mixture setting, won't start if either is closed.

HTH
OrderMaster

Not sure about the fuel valve, but when you shut the plane down, and go to restart it the mixture should go back to where it needs to be for the plane to start,

I have plenty of fuel, and Ive tried re-loading the plane, even tried creating a new flight and using that plane. Thanks for the suggestions though.

The airplane may have trouble starting for a number of reasons. What's it doing or not doing? Is it cranking but not firing or just not cranking at all.

If it isn't cranking then something in the electrical system is causing the problem. Like Mr.Mugel said, check the battery by looking at the Amps guage. Also check the switches and make sure that the ignition is turned on and the alternator switches are on.

Another problem is that some freeware planes don't have all the necessiary switches to do a cold start. Try loading the default Cessna and starting that then switch airplanes to the new one. That should get you running unless it's one of the more complex models.

If it's cranking and not catching then it's something to do with fuel. Either a fuel shutoff valve is blocking fuel flow or the tank is empty. Also, some add on planes need the throttle cracked a tiny bit to start.

Not long after I got the sim I was flying out of an airport in Colorado in the Cessna 182. Every time I would start the engine it would run for a few seconds and then quit. I finally figured out that I had the mixture set to full rich and the altitude of the airport was about 4,000+ ft. I leaned it out a little and it started up fine.  ;D

It turns over, it just dosnt catch. Fuel selector is set to either right or left tank. I found that it did not have  a battery switch, so I added one in the panel config file. still didnt help. I am trying my hardest not to be one of those people who cant be helped, but dude, it aint' workin'. Ive decided to give up on this plane, I'll continue my trip in a different one. Thanks for trying to help me everyone.

Just one quick question, did the plane have a BOTH selector for fuel tanks? Because if it does, you should be starting it with the tank selector on BOTH.

I looked at this the other day. Started fine either manually or using Ctr-E so you must have some other kind of problem.

The only thing I can think of is that this panel did not have a fuel tank selector of any kind, so I replaced one of the VOR guages with the 2 way selector from the mooney. works fine, now I can switch off when one tank gets low. But as Beef said, it should be on both, which the mooney switch does not have, so maybe that is my problem.

I just tryed it again, and it worked. suprizingly, all I had to do was hold the starter so that it turned over fow about 15 seconds, like trying to start your car when it is cold outside, and it started up. I kinda feel silly now... Thanks again everyone.