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I have downloaded the above file and it works fine except that the engine won't remain running after starting. Which line in the aircraft.config file needs amending please?

I downloaded it and it worked just fine. Why are you assuming that something needs to be edited in the .cfg file?

I tried it & it also worked fine for me. Then I changed the Aircraft Realism to Hard & see what you mean.
I have no idea how to fix that except by changing the Realism to Easy.

PS. Changing the Realism setting to Custom & enabling Unlimited Fuel worked for me.

E.E - and anyone - it helps a lot if you provide a link to the file you are referring to. It's easy - just copy the filename and do a search and copy the address - or -- just paste in the page where the file is.

In this case I presume it's this one?

http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1 ... p&x=19&y=9

Screenshots as well can help a lot when reporting some problems.

It just helps others to help you.

Thanks


Meanwhile - sometimes FSX aircraft may have engine running problems if you have previously been running an aircraft, maybe shut down or saved flight or set default flight and then changed aircraft. Best cure can be to simply restart FSX and select the desired a/c straight away (or P3d - same thing)

That Spitfire has no entries at all under the [fuel] category of the aircraft.cfg file. In other words it starts up with no fuel in its tanks and also no way to add fuel as the option to change the fuel load is greyed out. A simple way to change that is to copy and paste the [fuel] entries from another freeware Spitfire by the same author (A.F. Scrub). I found an older Spitfire model (a MkIX) by him and just copied the fuel entries over and then the prototype Spitfire works perfectly (just have to start the engines CTRL+E).

So, just find the section that says [fuel] in the aircraft.cfg file (right at the bottom) and add the following:

[fuel]
Center1=0.400000,0.000000,1.000000,114.400000,0.000000
LeftMain=0.000000,-6.000000,-1.000000,16.800000,0.000000
RightMain=0.000000,6.000000,-1.000000,16.800000,0.000000
External1=-0.200000,-2.650000,-0.600000,50.000000,0.000000
External2=-0.200000,2.650000,-0.600000,50.000000,0.000000
fuel_type=1.000000
number_of_tank_selectors=1
electric_pump=1

You can probably leave out the External1 and External2 lines as the prototype aircraft doesn't have drop tanks fitted as far as i can see. But it works just fine with those lines included as well.