while I was having dinner the running engine of my parking aircraft that was warming the oil and the cabin heater went out because I forgot to lean the mixture a little bit.
When I came back the battery was of course completely dead and drained of every single volt and ampere without the running generator.
That´s why I noticed an interesting bug of probably the simulator itself: There seem to be no immersive way to charge the battery or to restart the engine - activating various “external power” battery backs on various addon planes does not power the aircraft and seem to be just eye candy. (But I haven´t tested the PMDG external power pack connected to a plug behind the front gear yet.)
Also switching on “external power” direct in the simulator via the simulator key-bind (with and without visual backup battery pack connected to the aircraft) also did nothing.
Is there any immersive way to restart the engine or to have the airplane powered on constantly while parking when the battery has died?
Or is the only chance to completely re-start ta flight when having a drained battery?
So external power is not simulated in a realistic way?
Hm I have seen YouTubers having external power on for example in a CRJ700 and talking and planning and doing things in the cockpit for 25 or 30 minutes only with ext pwr and battery on before starting the APU, and everything was fine and the CRJ700 battery was never drained as long as external power was on.
But external power does not awake the aircraft anymore when it´s battery is already drained and ext power is plugged in?
This is kinda strange… I hope this will get patched some day.
External power even brought this aircraft sitting in the rain for 20 years with open window back to life:
External power should be… the reanimator of aircraft! No matter how bad and drained their board battery is.
The Carenado aircraft have a non-functioning external power unit as a visual device only.
The sim does support external power. Many other aircraft such as the default A320neo and the 747 as well as 3rd party aircraft such as PMDG DC-6, NextGen Simulations EMB-110, etc. have external power switches that will engage it.
It seems that, maybe, the smaller GA aircraft that don’t have dedicated External Power switches as part of the aircraft’s systems don’t support it. I don’t know if this 100% true, but seems to definitely be the case with the Carenado aircraft, such as the one in your OP.
This is something that seems just started.
I had never seen many postings on this until recently.
I would suspect it is something that will get looked into, but I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting.
I think the sound is broken on this video – very long periods of seeing the mouse move, and something trying to be done, for whatever reason, but no explanation of what is actually being done or why.
