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Question: How does your APU generator work? (Ground, engines OFF)


No problems 18 (32.7%) No power in 5-10 minutes 37 (67.3%) Total votes: 55 « Created by: Captain Sim on: Apr 30^th, 2012 at 6:02pm »

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Crabs25 Full Member Offline Posts: 26 Location: Yorkshire Joined: Jan 14^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: 737 locks up Reply #90 - Jan 7^th, 2013 at 8:17pm	Print Post
	Quote: After loading fuel, pax and running checklists, it's very frustrating. Here here!!! Is this something that can re-written?

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Crabs25 Full Member Offline Posts: 26 Location: Yorkshire Joined: Jan 14^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: 737 locks up Reply #91 - Jan 7^th, 2013 at 10:55pm	Print Post
	No. Tried all suggested here. Don't open a menu (impractical anyway), had the switches set exactly as you show in the previous post, ground power selected, on and showing a voltage. Ten minutes in, battery dies, avionics noise dies but lights remain on. No engine start. APU fires up but does nothing. This is a bit poor. �

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EdwardS Full Member Offline Posts: 63 Joined: Jul 5^th, 2010	Re: 737 locks up Reply #92 - Jan 8^th, 2013 at 7:58pm	Print Post
	As I write this it has been 25 minutes since I started the APU and switched the AC to APU GEN. I have bleed air but have lost all power, electronics have gone out and engines will not start.


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Crabs25 Full Member Offline Posts: 26 Location: Yorkshire Joined: Jan 14^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: 737 locks up Reply #93 - Jan 8^th, 2013 at 9:44pm	Print Post
	EdwardS wrote on Jan 8^th, 2013 at 7:58pm: As I write this it has been 25 minutes since I started the APU and switched the AC to APU GEN. I have bleed air but have lost all power, electronics have gone out and engines will not start. Same as my situation. Surely someone can work round this there are some very clever people here. You only have to look at the V1 gauge to see that!

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Bobby Boucher New Member Offline Posts: 4 Joined: Jan 7^th, 2013	Re: 737 locks up Reply #94 - Jan 9^th, 2013 at 12:35am	Print Post
	I'm working on it.. I could make a quick fix right now.. if I had the documentation for their naming conventions... but I'll figure it out eventually.. The quick fix that would at least get us by.. would make it so that when the CaptainSim APU generator is on-line, the FSX APU generator was also "on" (bool).. battery stays charged.. problem solved.. This has been an issue long enough, that it's fair for us to get impatient..


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Crabs25 Full Member Offline Posts: 26 Location: Yorkshire Joined: Jan 14^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: 737 locks up Reply #95 - Jan 9^th, 2013 at 10:11pm	Print Post
	Bobby Boucher wrote on Jan 9^th, 2013 at 12:35am: The quick fix that would at least get us by.. would make it so that when the CaptainSim APU generator is on-line, the FSX APU generator was also "on" (bool).. �battery stays charged.. problem solved.. This has been an issue long enough, that it's fair for us to get impatient.. I agree with you. I feel awful for moaning but at the end of the day, it's an error in the design so should be addressed swiftly.

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Caribflyer Senior Member Offline Posts: 410 Joined: Jun 24^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: 737 locks up Reply #96 - Jan 10^th, 2013 at 12:38pm	Print Post
	I experienced this issue for the first time yesterday. I was actually on APU power for quite a while and when I was about to start the engines everything went dead. I don't know if this is important but I had also accidentally switched off one of the fuel pumps prior to the complete lock up..

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marvic Senior Member Offline Posts: 280 Location: Canada CYWG Joined: Mar 22^nd, 2011 Gender:	Re: 737 locks up Reply #97 - Jan 10^th, 2013 at 6:59pm	Print Post
	Crabs25 wrote on Jan 9^th, 2013 at 10:11pm: Bobby Boucher wrote on Jan 9^th, 2013 at 12:35am: The quick fix that would at least get us by.. would make it so that when the CaptainSim APU generator is on-line, the FSX APU generator was also "on" (bool).. �battery stays charged.. problem solved.. This has been an issue long enough, that it's fair for us to get impatient.. I agree with you. I feel awful for moaning but at the end of the day, it's an error in the design so should be addressed swiftly. Well Crabs25, whether you call it moaning or complaining, you paid for a finished product. I personally have worked around some of the issues and will continue to fly the plane regardless. Sorry to hear it is not working for you. One thing for sure, a service pack is needed to complete the aircraft. Many thanks to the many who have helped me and everyone out, I hope soon CS steps up to the plate on the 737.

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Crabs25 Full Member Offline Posts: 26 Location: Yorkshire Joined: Jan 14^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: 737 locks up Reply #98 - Jan 10^th, 2013 at 9:19pm	Print Post
	marvic wrote on Jan 10^th, 2013 at 6:59pm: Crabs25 wrote on Jan 9^th, 2013 at 10:11pm: Bobby Boucher wrote on Jan 9^th, 2013 at 12:35am: The quick fix that would at least get us by.. would make it so that when the CaptainSim APU generator is on-line, the FSX APU generator was also "on" (bool).. �battery stays charged.. problem solved.. This has been an issue long enough, that it's fair for us to get impatient.. I agree with you. I feel awful for moaning but at the end of the day, it's an error in the design so should be addressed swiftly. Well Crabs25, whether you call it moaning or complaining, you paid for a finished product. I personally have worked around some of the issues and will continue to fly the plane regardless. Sorry to hear it is not working for you. One thing for sure, a service pack is needed to complete the aircraft. Many thanks to the many who have helped me and everyone out, I hope soon CS steps up to the plate on the 737. True. I still fly it, and enjoy it, but would enjoy it that bit more if it worked properly. There are some great features, but some of these extras could have been left for a later upgrade if a set release date was an issue. Nice as it is to look in the lavatory access panel, I'd rather be able to press the "ENGAGE" button on the PCDS and it set the EPR bugs, or sit with the APU running the electrics as it should. No word from Captain Sim since May 1st despite the poll showing a 70% error rate. Not encouraging to a prospective buyer is it?

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fsxpaul Ex Member	Re: 737 locks up Reply #99 - Jan 11^th, 2013 at 2:48am	Print Post
	EdwardS wrote on Jan 8^th, 2013 at 7:58pm: Surely someone can work round this there are some very clever people here. You only have to look at the V1 gauge to see that! � � *I think you meant me? Thanks* Bobby Boucher wrote on Jan 9^th, 2013 at 12:35am: The quick fix that would at least get us by.. would make it so that when the CaptainSim APU generator is on-line, the FSX APU generator was also "on" (bool).. �battery stays charged.. problem solved.. Well the good news is I did for you � This is just the APU fix. I'll try and combine the Gound Power later. Place the '*CS737_APU_Gen_Mod.xml' into your \panel* folder. Add this line to your panel.cfg under [VCockpit01]: gaugeXX=!CS737_APU_Gen_Mod, 0,0,0,0 Where 'XX' is the next available gauge number. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5Daz07NnS0Jak81UmZ0YUpPTGs/edit


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Crabs25 Full Member Offline Posts: 26 Location: Yorkshire Joined: Jan 14^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: 737 locks up Reply #100 - Jan 11^th, 2013 at 9:59am	Print Post
	Hurrah!!! I did mean you, of course!! � Tried; works; brilliant. Thank you.

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Bobby Boucher New Member Offline Posts: 4 Joined: Jan 7^th, 2013	Re: 737 locks up Reply #101 - Jan 11^th, 2013 at 12:06pm	Print Post
	Trying it now.. a quick glance at the code looks just the ticket.. Thank you !


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AirCanadaGuy Ex Member	Re: 737 locks up Reply #102 - Jan 12^th, 2013 at 1:36pm	Print Post
	Remeber that the aircraft is still perfectly flyable even without the nice addon from FSXpaul. If you loaded a flight with the engines running, then cut them and turned APU on you can stay at the gate for hours, atleast until you run out of fuel.


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EdwardS Full Member Offline Posts: 63 Joined: Jul 5^th, 2010	Re: 737 locks up Reply #103 - Jan 12^th, 2013 at 1:49pm	Print Post
	Actually, AirCanadaGuy, while you can stay at the gate for hours you cannot restart the engines to go flying with the fuel you have left over. Technically that makes the plane un-flyable simply because the engines won't start back up.


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fsxpaul Ex Member	Re: 737 locks up Reply #104 - Jan 12^th, 2013 at 4:05pm	Print Post
	Quote: Remeber that the aircraft is still perfectly flyable even without the nice addon from FSXpaul. If you loaded a flight with the engines running, then cut them and turned APU on you can stay at the gate for hours, atleast until you run out of fuel. With all the tesing I've done with my new gauge, I've never had the APU circuit work correctly doing what you've described. Maybe I'll try some more � Edited: I disabled my APU/Grd Pwr gauge, loaded up with a running aircraft, shut down the engines, started the APU: didn't work. Same with the ground power. I have FSUICP on my system and *had* the battery set to 'indefinitely' so I never noticed the APU/Grd Pwr issue before.


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