A poor start (by me)

Hi guys,

I've just spent the last hour trying out the Airbus: Long Haul tutorial flight...

...and haven't yet managed to make it away from the gate. 

It appears that either something critical is missing from the tutorial or I'm missing something critical.

Basically, I'm finding it impossible to get the radios to work and the engines to start. Critical failures, I'm sure you'll agree.

In order to start cold and dark, I'm loading the default flight with the Cessna 172 at SeaTac. From there, I'm shutting off the mixture, turning off the avionics, turning of the batteries and turning off the ignition before loading the Air Canada A330-300.

I then follow all of the instructions in the tutorial - seemingly to the letter - until I get to page 64 and the instruction to contact ATC for clearance. When I try this, the radio stack looks right but there's no response from ATC.

Equally, when I turn on the Beacon, there's no obvious visible external light which suggests that I have no electrical power.

I then set the Engine Ignition Switch to Start, flip the Cut-Offs to "On" and hit the starter, but nothing happens aside from the "On" light coming on for about a second on the starter switch.

I've been through the whole process three times and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

If it helps, there are currently four Orange warnings on the ECAM:

 - HYD FAIL 1
 - HYD FAIL 2
 - ELECT FAIL 1
 - ELECT FAIL 2

Any help with this would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 
 

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the response.

I don't think the F-Lite A330 supports the concept of external power, so that's out (at least I think so). Given that the aircraft is simulated to a moderate level of complexity, the options are obviously more limited than those provided by the PSS aircraft.

The exact flow for the F-Lite A330 appears to be as follows:

 - Batteries - ON
 - Avionics BUS - ON
 - APU Master Switch - ON
 - APU Start - ON
 - APU Bleed - ON
 - APU Gen - ON
 - APU Bat - ON

 - Parking Brakes - SET
 - Thrust Levers - IDLE
 - Beacon - ON
Note: The beacon doesn't work, suggesting that there's no electrical power.

 - Engine Ignition Switch - START
 - Engine 2 Cut-off Valve- OPEN
 - Overhead Engine 2 Starter - ON
Note: nothing happens. The Starter light comes on for a moment, goes off and then... nothing.

I'll try your suggestion about leaving the Cessna's avionics on and report back, but I'm not hopeful.

Thanks again for your suggestions, though.

Yeap. Have seen this a few times and it kind of makes sense for aircraft such as you say in the F-Lite version, as it is not as complex as other simulations, so where as some things are modelled on some aircraft some are not on others - causing problems like that.

Glad you got it working and sorry to hear about your crash!

My suggestion would be to start a flight with the default cessna but leave the batteries on m8.