Electrical Failure in FS2004 Using Turbo-Prop Aircraft

[BJ]

Does anyone know or have experienced aircraft electrical failure exactly 5 minutes into the sim when using a turbo-prop aircraft when
flying using FS passengers. The failure is not from FS Pass, but I can check the failure area for FS9 and see that electrical is checked
to fail in 5 minutes even though I never checked it. I cannot re-set it in flight either to bring my panel back up, etc. This never occurs with
a jet aircraft, only when using turbo or prop aircraft. It may not occur with the default aircraft, but I've attempted to use a variety of freeware
turbo-props and all of them have the same failure when using FS passengers.

Any ideas? Otherwise excellent sim with lots of future potential!

BJ

[jope-dope]

i've been flying a lot in turboprop aircraft (Dash 8-100) the last few days and i haven't encountered that problem. You might check the
battery and gen switches. they should be turned on :-)

[GoonBird]

I've been flying the Premier Aircraft Design DHC-8 102 almost since the release, (or rather, since my rating allowed me to) and I haven't
seen this. But others have been advised to turn off the FS9 failure system, so that only the fsp failure system is working. That might solve
it for you??

-Fred

[omarza]

I think I know what your problem is as it happened with me as well in the beginning. Problem is battery running dead.

I start off with a complete dead aircraft usually... BUT that specific model didnt have generator swirtches and battery went dead
triggering the electrical failure under failures. Either make sure you have generators turned on OR if there is no switch for that go to
settings and map the shortcut to switch it on to a easy to remember key... and then just switch it on via the keyboard. After I did that all
problems stopped on that particular aircraft.

Hope it helps



Post Edited ( 08-16-05 16:30 )

[BJ]

Thank You. Your right about the generator problem. I've been double checking the switches to prevent the battery from going dead. I
believe its called pilot error. That seems to have taken care of the problem. THANKS AGAIN!

BJ

[SWAFO]

I had the same problem after a few hours of flight in the PMDG 737. As Omarza mentioned, the battery was running dead. What I had to
do (since simply powering the generators didn't seem to charge the batteries as it should) was set the "extend battery life" option in
FSUIPC to 0 (or whatever the value required for unlimited battery life is). That fixed it for me.