After 10 min flight, all intruments on panel turn black
Can some one help me to understand ?
You probably didn’t turn on the Alternator, and drained your battery.
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no master alternator switch is on
What about in a different G1000 plane - do you get the same results?
Yes i think i understand my new yoke don’t Come back from start to both when i start engine so i drain battery
Thanks a lot to everybody
Ah, so you are effectively leaving the starter motor running all the time, and that drained the battery. The same thing happens in the default Cub.
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Hi there,
Glad to hear it sounds like your issue has been fixed. I have marked your own answer as the best answer and I also modified your title so other people could find the issue. (It was a little difficult to understand what the topic about just by reading “Cessna 172 G1000”.)
The answer to the problem of the avionics panels turning off in the Cessna 172 with G1000, is that after the switch is turned to “Start” and the engine starts, the switch must be turned to “Both” so the starter is not continuously on. The alternator is also on. The avionics panels remain on with this procedure.
The checklist for the Cessna 172 G1000 needs to be amended to note that the switch must be turned to “Both” after the engine is started. Correction: The checklist for the Cessna 172 G1000 does include making sure that the switch is turned back to “Both” after engine start (Magnetos - Both). It’s in the RUN_UP category (just prior to BEFORE TAKE OFF category.
The checklist for the Cessna 208 B - Grand Caravan, for example, has the switch correctly turned to the “Off” position after the engine is started, this does not work for the 172, it needs to be turned to the “Both” position.
I thought the starter key was sprung loaded, and returned to both when you stopped turning it.
If it is left on starter, it’s likely because of the use of external hardware, like a Logitech panel. The sim isn’t doing it, the hardware is.
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You are probably correct. I have only used the sim with the Honeycomb yoke where the switch is not spring-loaded and must be turned to the “Both” position after the engine starts.
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Try it with the mouse on the key in the cockpit. You have to hold it to the right, and it will return automatically. In fact, I think I have one plane where I cannot start it with my Logitech switch panel, as it refuses to hold the starter down. I have to use the mouse.
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Yes, after turning the switch to “Start” with the mouse it does spring back automatically to “Both” as you noted. Also I need to correct my post above. The checklist for the Cessna 172 G1000 does include making sure that the switch is turned back to “Both” after engine start (Magnetos - Both). It’s in the RUN_UP category (just prior to BEFORE TAKE OFF category.
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I have to confess, I never use the startup procedures. {slaps wrist!}
I mean, I follow them in my head, I just don’t use that functionality.
So, may be, I do have the same problem?
It is my habit to occasionally have a coffee break during flight. Then I decide to land, park the plane (usually a Diamond DA40 NG), switch off the engine and go away for a coffee (or two). But unfortunately, at times, when I come back, all electric is dead. I can loosen the break, turn the key for starting, but nothing happens. So, I was afraid, that I drained the battery. According to this thread, this indeed might happen.
How can I avoid this without logging out and start a new trip?
You say you switch engine off, did you also switch avionics, when motor is off magneto didn’t produce power, and you drain battery off.
Last time I did not switch avionics, because then the menu opens to end the trip. This was the reason, to assume, that even in the sim the battery can be drained. But when the plane is not located within a certain area on the airport, then switching off avionics does not result in popping up the menu to end the trip. But even then I could also experience this phenomenon. In all cases, after some time, the menu had opened. When choosing to continue the flight, the Garmin display is dead. I can switch the ignition on, but no reaction. It would be fine, when someone of the ground staff loitering next to the plane could start up the propeller manually, as it had to be done in former days. But no chance…