Yes, You are correct… Was thinking of elsewhere. "Fuel selector Valve— Left or Right to prevent cross feeding.
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Going to ask next time to see if that is a policy thing why it’s kept in BOTH or are the student / renter pilots not following the checklists me included - lol.
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Had a busy day today flying a 787 from Philadelphia to SFO during dinner on AP. Made a nice completely automated Cat 3 landing and flew at 60FPS after various tweeks. I then flew the C-172 from San Jose to SFO and got 80 FPS.
Both are handling pretty well. Been 15 years since I actually flew but did my last instrument competency check when I turned 60 in one of the first G1000 and it was enough for me to decide was a good time to quit.
Not sure what to say but wished I had this thing in the day when I actually had to log hours to get competent.
PS I thought the 787 was pretty squirmy until around Kansas when I realized I still had the gear down.
Here is a little piece of local screen candy. The visuals are beautiful.
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Ok now I see the difference: Due to all the walk around issues I have not been starting cold & dark. When a flight starts on the runway the selector is on both, which makes sense. That said, I learned to fly many years ago in Cessnas, and I don’t recall ever being instructed to leave the selector on the left tank when shutting down. Could be older 172s were different (or my instructor was lax) and newer ones modeled now have this as part of normal procedure. Cheers!
San Francisco is stunning in-game!
Heh I did have that problem once on the G1000 172. 
But no, in this case the starter literally won’t move the prop – it’s not just the engine that doesn’t catch. 
Seems to vary by person, multiple people reporting this but others saying they have no problem, so may be a conflict with another aircraft or something weird.
You’re not wrong; historically at the flight school I fly out of, we would put the fuel selector on left when securing the plane. The policy changed a couple of so years ago to keep on both.
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I had that happen yesterday when trying to refuel. I killed the engine because no refuel option appears on the Ground Request menu and I wanted to see if that made any difference.
I guess I fiddled around long enough to run down the batteries. The prop would just wiggle but not turn over. After I turned off the avionics and all lights I did manage to get it restarted.
Kinda neat to see that modeled. But I still can’t figure out how to refuel. I pulled right up to the pump. In 2020, a menu popped right up with fueling options. I know you can do it via the EFB, and that’s what I ended up doing.
You go it. This is what I’m used to. I’m still flying 172s but haven’t seen the fuel selector out of “BOTH” on any of the aircraft that I rent.
Funny enough, the fuel selector is on Left in the flying lessons and Career Mode checkrides, with neither even mentioning the importance of it being in center for takeoff/non-level flight.
Safety third!
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What’s your speed on final?
Should be about 65 knots over the fence, throttle to idle at the threshold and hold off until touch down with the stall horn sounding.
They would turn the fuel selector left or right to prevent cross feeding.
I did that but after I use my hat switch to look out a side window it defaults back to the original height when looking forwards again. I checked back in the settings I had adjusted, the number remains at 60 (where I set it). In my cockpit it won’t stay at my set 60 height.
That’s annoying. I can the assigned LB+Directional Pad buttons to look out of the side windows and it hasn’t affected my adjusted height.
Same with the look reset assigned buttons. I can hit that and it doesn’t affect my adjusted height either.
Generally the G1000 is working for me ok, (unlike the classic!!grrr), but my problem is that sometimes there is sound ,sometimes not 
Mainly get sound in career, but not in free flight, but sometimes no aircraft sound in either.
Just hopped into the Basic Mixed cockpit version and I cannot get the engine to turn over at all. Looks like a Flat Battery, going by the Volts warning
According to spad.next, the battery is at 25V:
I tried also setting the SIMCONNECT variable but that did nothing.
Seen the post about a lot of electric problems with this version so guessing it’s all related?
EDIT: Ignore comment regarding the VOLTS warning. That comes up on the G1000 version too until the alternator is switched on.
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The Basic 172 hasn’t been operational since the launch, hope they fix it soon, I’m not a fan of the G1000.
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If you are on PC I think Bagalou’s 172 variants work.
I thought they modified the core files, which is verboten now?
I think he has some standalone variants now. This one is for the Reims 172
I haven’t tried any community content yet. Just not sure I want to put much time in 2024 at the moment.
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