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@ Tyrion - I don't think you understood what I am saying... if you do not 'initialise' the gauges by first opening all the 2d panels, then the 3d panel, then zooming around the exterior... the radios and ap switch off mid flight. Nice huh...   At which point you will need to reload the aircraft and go through the above initialisation routine to so it does not happen again.

Hello fellas,   forums are great!  As a former "ground pounder" I flew many a mission on C-130's, many riding in the cockpit.  I do not think I ever flew much on one, when something wasn't redlined.  So... I recently bought the C-130_X from Flight1.  I flew the orientation tutorial flight outof RAF Lyneham a couple of days ago, and had a Eng 4 Gen failure.  Hmm.. par for the course, I continued the flight and landed.
Yesterday, I tried another flight from KECG to KOPF in the USCG J model.  Half way through the flight, the above happened when I was away from the computer.  Upon returning, I corrected the course, put in a '7600' code in the transponder, and continued to fly the mission manually.  Well, I'm batting 1000 I thought.  Two flights - two failures...  :)  I figured maybe an inverter failure or some such, never realizing the above.

Thanks much for the information!  8-)

Rick