Aircraft loses power on the ground

[ThePilot_Ace]

Hi all, for some reason my aircraft seem to lose power on the ground  (i.e. radios, squawk box, GPS blank out) after a couple of minutes whenever my engines are not running. Reloading the aircraft seems to do the trick but I find this quite annoying. Is there anyway to solve this? I always leave my battery and avionics switches on.

[Rich H]

Start the APU.

[Daube]

You loose the electric power because your batteries are dead.
Batteries do not have that much life-time when the generators and engines are off.

[ThePilot_Ace]

Okay, so in the real world pilots (in GA aircraft) have to do their before start up procedures very quickly?

Thanks

[Leigh]

theres not much to a start up

well from what i can remember

but in hevies they use the apu

[dave3cu]

I think the opinion of real world pilots is that FS is unrealistically short on battery life. An example:http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1219419057/3

To unrealistically give the battery infinite life you can add this line to the [electrical] section of the aircraft.cfg

electric_always_available = 1  

[ThePilot_Ace]

Thanks guys  :)

[BFMF]

Just ensure the generators are switched on when running the engine