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You have to start the APU before you cut the engines. That way you don't use the battery circuit. Set the AC selector to APU after the APU has come online, then cut engines. It works for me!

EdwardS wrote on Jan 12^th, 2013 at 1:49pm:


I didn't recall you saying that, my apologies. Using bleed air and the ground power can be used to start engines in real life, but that doesn't work in the sim for some of you?

Just out of curiosity I tried last night.  Left the APU running, Engines off, battery to battery bus, source swtich to APU GEN and the Generator Power Switches to ON.   All the power indications seem to stay on but I could not start the plane.   Nothing happens even tho I had the APU Bleed Air On, X-over set to both Auto and ON with both packs turned off.    Tried multiple times and I've talked to few people who have experienced the same issue but don't come to the forums.   IF there is a certain place to look that would be great.

Shai Genis wrote on Aug 28^th, 2013 at 8:59pm:

It is not because you are going into the menu in FSX. It can lose power just sitting there for about 8 minutes.

I also have and use GSX, and mine has suddenly started doing this (about a month ago). It happens during the boarding passenger and loading baggage phase. It's actually about 8 minutes after loading the 737 into FSX, so the GSX phase doesn't really matter, but since I set up the amount of fuel for the flight before I load it into FSX, it always happens during that phase of GSX.

Since my OP, on 24 April 2012 until about a month ago, the power stayed ON no matter what I did, so I always had power. I was NOT using electric_always_available=1, nor was I using unlimited/lengthened battery power via FSUIPC (registered version), so it must be being caused by something I have installed recently. I will have to go through all my receipts for products bought recently, to help with figuring out which one(s) it might be.

The electric_always_available=1 doesn't fix the problem, so for now, I've resorted to using lengthened battery power from within FSUIPC.

Well this is really weird!

After reporting that my 737 was suffering from the loss of power, it's no longer losing power.

I had it sitting at the gate for 20 minutes, then I started the APU, then started the engines and everything went like clockwork. All this when I had decided I was going to use the cs737_apu_gen_grdpwr_mod by Paul. Weird!

Must be FSX Gremlins. Weird!

Is there any Progress in fixing this issue? I experience the same: while on APU Power doing flight preperation, the APU shuts down and the aircraft is not usable anymore. Even after connecting ground power, the battery continues to drain.

I don't know whats going on with you guys at CS, but your 1.x versions of your 737 and 777 releases are full of bugs and incomplete. You promise working systems on the product page, people pay money for things that are not included. I understand programming is hard, but this plane has been out for almost 2 years now with the same problem. This way of cheating customers is considered a crime in most parts of the world!

@ Mark

well, I hope for the best then....to be honest the load of bugs that are on the 737 (which I really was looking forward to) and later the 777 prevented me from buying the L-1011 so far, which is a shame because I also was looking forward to that plane....

But for me there is no use in spending money on planes I later will never use because flying them just isnt fun when you need to work around issues all the time.

The user made hotfixes for the 737 FDE for example make the plane stop losing too much speed at descent, but overpower the engines even more....(at 70 % N1 you have to watch not to overspeed)

I have the L1011 in P3d, APU GEN works ok.

I am thinking of adding the 737-200, so is the bug fixed?

I would be surprised if its not.

Mark, or Tanya?

Regards,

David