AlexArt wrote on May 7^th, 2012 at 11:46am:

Mark, do you have the default AI aircraft or 3rd party add-on? It happens that the parameter "electric_always_avalable=1" works, if there is a AI plane in which it exists.

Not quite sure what you mean, so here is how I use AI traffic:

When using Weapon for FSX, I turn the AI aircraft up to about 10%.
All other times, the AI is at 0%
Ultimate Traffic 2 is always in use and is set at 30%

So I don't really know. What does that do for me?

EDIT: I have just done another test with UT2 and FSX AI traffic OFF. I started at 11:06pm (when I started the APU) until I started the engines (using the APU) at 11:26pm. So as you can see, I still had power from the APU after 20 minutes. For some reason, I only lost the power those two times back when I started this topic, and it has never happened again. And as you can see in the attached image. I have not reinstalled the 737-200 Base Pack v1.0 since the day I got it and installed it.

Mark

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