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Hello!

I have a question to ask... I have installed a couple of aircraft that were 'FS 2002/ FS 2004' compatible, and for some reason when I load the sim, the A/C's engine(s) shut down and won't restart. Also, moving the throttle will not increase engine RPM's. Please note that prop trim/ mixture are not affected... the RPM's just won't increase on the tachometer.

Anybody ever come across this? Here is one of the A/C in question:

http://www.flightsim.com/kdl.php?fid=93064

It's a B-17 Shark Fin (although in the description it's called a 'G' Model).

Any help & suggestions are most appreciated!

Thanks!

Alan

I've had that happen before too. I just restarted the flight and everything seemed to work.  Otherwise if everything shows up maybe just try pressing Ctrl E a bunch of times and maybe it will turn over.  Some developers do that.  To start oe of my warriors I have to press Ctrl E about 8 times very fast to get it to pop.

MIKE

Hello!

Mike & Groundpound: Thanks for the replies!

Mike: I've tried that, even as far as to hold down the Engine Start key (I have it programmed for 'E') to see if they'll kick over... no joy.

Groundpound: Thanks for the suggestion. I opened the aircraft.cfg file for the B-17, and it already has the line for min_throttle_limit; in fact it's very similar to your example. I changed the value to 0.00000, and restarted... no luck. I also deleted the line entirely. This didn't work, either.

For the time being, I've deleted the A/C from my Aircraft file... I'm spending so much time tweaking that I'm missing flight time!

I actually just came across this same problem yesterday trying to fly a DH7 and only the left engine would start.  No matter what I tried I could not get it to start.  So I did what you did and just deleted the aircraft entirely.  There are plenty of planes out there anyway!

MIKE