Plane Shut Shut Down

[hobanagerik]

@andyskywalker80

1). Why can’t I just start the sim with my plane running? I don’t care about doing checklist.
2) Why is the checklist now so long?
3) After going through the checklist and all is done, I push throttle and the planes engines cut out. This happens on ALL planes I try to fly. Really annoying.
4) I set my flaps to my throttle quadrant, for ease of use. But I can’t gradually extend them. It’s either fully extended or not? What is going on here?

1. Start on a runway, with the engines running.
2. Things to check need to be checked. The complex the plane, the more things there are to check.
3. I would imagine what is happening here is your throttle quadrant updates after you move the first lever, so if you have your mixture at cutoff, as you advance the throttle, lever positions are updated, and you effectively cut the fuel. Just a guess. Ensure all throttle levers are where they should be, especially if you are starting on the runway.
4. You don’t mention the plane, but at a guess I would say you have bound the wrong setting to your flaps lever, so rather than incrementally raising/lowering flaps, you are bouncing between zero/full flaps at a single press.