Captain Sim wrote on Dec 14^th, 2010 at 4:22pm:

Just recheked, engines starting up OK. From our cold flight it runs with Ctrl+E like a charm. Most likely all issues here have been caused by wrong throttle/cutoff positions. This is a magic formula from Bill Gates: Ctrl+Shift+F4  then F1  then Ctrl+E

I don't understand what you are saying the magic formula is CTRL SHIFT F4 cause as soon as I let go of that the engines die and F1 is just to make throttle go to zero which is by default and CTRL E is suppose to start the engines also by default so if the default is not working for us then why suggest it it is confusing :(

our plane sits there CTRL E only does the first 2 engine startups, we see the switches toggle up when we CTRL-E but no power no nothing, the dials in the middle do not move, the other engines to not go to startup until we flip all the switches and we here them come on but no power. Nothing moves no dials no power until we press CTRL+SHIFT+F4 and that is a broke way to fly

I don't understand what throttle cutoffs are and all that for starting the plane can I get a better explaination of where exactly the throttle MUST BE for engines to start? our plane is not like a car where everyone has different ones and gas pedal is slightly different for everyone we all have the same exact program installed it should start for you like it starts for me at 5% throttle 1% or wwhatever it is but not randomly picking a magic number every time hoping it works and starts that makes absolutely no sense