B307 GPUa & Chocks Present when Pedestal Battery Switch Set to Flight

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Boeing 307

Brief description of the issue:

When on the ground, setting the pedestal battery switch to “Ground” enables the wheel chocks and GPU. Moving the battery switch to “Flight”, when ready to taxi, does not remove the wheel chocks and GPU.

Quoting the documentation:

By selecting the GROUND POWER position of the Ground/Flight switch, you can toggle on the GPU starting generator. This supplies enough power for the systems of the aircraft and also enough power to start the engines. Once running, you switch the lever to FLIGHT position and this brings the on-board batteries on-line, toggling off the GPU outside.

Note: this behavior is not occurring when utilizing the Battery switch at the F.E.’s station. (It’s a bit confusing how the aircraft could realistically have two physical battery switches that are somehow physically linked together such that one can manipulate the other when operated. A battery Master switch is just that — a Master switch to disconnect the electrical system from the batteries. How can this electrical system have two that operate the same battery(ies)?)

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Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

Place pedestal battery selector switch in “Flight” position and note, via external camera, that the wheel chocks and GPU are still present.

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Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:

0.1.9

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It should also be noted that the GPU is positioned quite inaccurately.

GSE 01 Improper GPU Position
GSE 01 Improper GPU Position1121Ă—813 84.1 KB

There are 2 obvious problems here.

  1. The GPU is in front of the plane so has to be moved before the plane can move. In general, the GPU should be positioned behind the wing and, if the cable is long enough, also outside the horizontal tail. I say this as a professional rampie.
  2. The hitch to connect the GPU to the tug, and the place where the tug would need to be located to move the GPU out of the plane’s way are UNDER THE props for the right engines, which would be running by this time. It would even be unsafe to push the GPU out of the way manually because then the people would be in the prop arcs.