Hello, I just bought the B-52 driver a couple of days ago and cannot get the engines to start at all. I was wondering how you got the renewed legal copy. any advice would be great. thanks.

matty84 wrote on Feb 16^th, 2015 at 4:08am:


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Coltrane wrote on Feb 17^th, 2015 at 10:57pm:

That's correct. Good guess.

matty84 wrote on Feb 20^th, 2015 at 9:28pm:

Hopefully soon.

A long time ago, I made a short video of starting the engines on the B-52:



It might be hard to detect in the video, but the the trick is this.

When the N1 reaches 20%, I press F1 to move throttle to the lowest setting, call it 0 (zero), then I press F3 to nudge it forward slightly. Once the engine fires, I press F1 again.

To control each throttle lever individually, I press, for engine #1, E, release the E key, then press 1 (not NumPad 1, but the one above they letters on the keyboard). Do not press E + 1, you must release the E before pressing 1!
For engine #2, press E, release the E key, then press 2, and so forth up to 4 for engine #4.

IMPORTANT: PRESS E, RELEASE THE E KEY, THEN PRESS 5, SO THAT ALL 4 LEVERS ARE NOW UNDER CONTROL OF A SINGLE THROTTLE LEVER/KEYSTROKE (LIKE F1, F2, F3 AND F4)! This doesn't apply if you have a multiple throttle lever like the CH Throttle Quadrant. You wouldn't believe the amount of times I have increased the throttle to start taxiing, only to find that my single throttle lever only controls a single engine/lever!

Thanks again Mark for all of your instructions. They have helped tremendously.