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Check your Isolation valve :) Make sure it is in AUTO and your right engine will ignite. Without the ISO valve in AUTO the engine won't start because it doesn't have any bleed air.

"Make sure it is in AUTO and your right engine will ignite."Assuming, that is, at least one pack or one engine bleed switch is OFF ;-) You can manually force the Isolation Valve open by selecting OPEN.Cheers.Ian.P.S. This is not a bug. It's real airplane logic.

Where is the pack switches? The tutorial show every switch except that one so which switches are those?

http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/67078.jpg(Original pic from T. Metzinger Tute) CheersDavidP.s. You should download Timothy Metzinger's tutorial, it goes into more system detail than Fred's tute (not taking anything away from Fred, a great tute aswell)

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Hi Par,I am not going to go into my "rant" phase. However for you and everyone else on the PMDG forum. There are a zillion hours of flying with the PMDG737 now. If you experience a problem, and you can't find it on this forum within the last month, it is NOT a bug.I for one have hundreds of hours with this bird, and it is almost 100% perfect. If something does not work, then YOU need to RTFM, before you ask about a known bug.What I am saying Par, is ask how to fix a problem before you think there is a "bug". Now let me ask you this, do you have an up to date checklist? Making sure that all your fuel switches are in the correct possiton, besides the pac switches will always prevent this problem you noted.PS, I really don't think there are ANY bugs with this bird at present, on anything. I have flown it now half way around the world and I am pretty Proficient with this bird. I get a little frazzeld when people think they have found a bug and they have not gone through the proper procedures.Smile back ON :-)CheersBob

Bob,You are doing this so much better than I am. :-)Thanks. And P

Oh come on guys, the gentlemen had a question, and it was answered. Going on and on that he didn't 'RTFM' doesn't do anyone any good. He is a paying customer too, and is entitled to ask the question :)

Fred, I agree that everyone is entitled to ASK a question, but when the question is prefaced with the question is this a "bug", it kind of gets under my skin. We all,(me included), think that when something does not work correctly is it "there" fault (a bug), and not something that I, the user, am doing that is wrong.I am not going to "rant" on Par, he did ask a nice question, but in general as there is a "long" thread on the MS general forum about the EagleSoft Citation X and getting down to knowing these complex birds.Let me simply add this, the PMDG 737 is not a bird that you go jump into and go fly. You need to study its systems, procedures and then go fly and practice. Most of us "hard cakes", have asked for more and more realism. When developers like PMDG provide that, RTFM becomes not an option, but a MUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Par asked a very good question, politely and I do respect him for that, make NO mistake about that. However with this bird, one must NOT assume that when something does not work as the user thinks that it is a BUG. In almost 99.9% of the time it is a "USER" error.When I was in flight school with the USAF, there was no mercy when you did not know something that was IN the manual. I am not going to jump on someone here for not reading the manual, BUT, RTFM BEFORE you think that something is WRONG, it will increase YOUR enjoyment of this GREAT bird.PMDG has done one H%^% of job on this bird, it is not simple to use, but with study and practice it cannot be beat.My Two CentsBob

Bob,Point well taken.

I had the same problem the first few times I tried a cold start, worked thru it by triel and error and reading up on the procedure.One thing that puzzels me tho. I have the C & H yoke. If I or someone else moves the mixture or prop levers forward and it's not noticed, after the engines are started and if you move the levers back, the engines idle down and quit. I noticed this happening with fs9 long before I purchased 737-NG. Thing is, the mixture lever is mapped to the mixture control not to any fuel cutoff switch as far as I can see.This in no way points to any so called bugs in PMDG.I'm just curious about this? Do jets have a mixture control, controllable by the pilot/flight eng.Regards

I HAVE READ ALL THE MANUALS once and the tutorials 5 times.!! Noone mention packers. They mention that I should put the ISO buttons to auto which I had done but how could I know they are named packers without being Sherlock Holmes or having some basic aircraft 101 knowledge ;) This is not meant as critics I bought this product since it

>I HAVE READ ALL THE MANUALS once and the tutorials 5 times.!!>Noone mention packers. They mention that I should put the ISO>buttons to auto which I had done but how could I know they are>named packers without being Sherlock Holmes or having some>basic aircraft 101 knowledge ;) Your wrong:On page 20 in Timothy Metzingers Advanced Flight Tutorial (version 1.01) there is a special section handling PACKS...To READ a manual is one thing. To UNDERSTAND what you read is another.Good luck...

Bob; C'mon now, *no* bugs? Try flying a non-precision approach at a high-altitude airfield (>2500'MSL) You can't set the published MDA into the baro mins because they're capped at 2500. The same logic that applies to the radar mins is being misapplied to the baro mins. And I reported this well before SU3 was released. That is a persistent, known, and unresolved bug. Betcha I can find a few more... PMDG have done a very good job with this panel, but they've indeed missed a few things.CheersBob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-V L-300Washington, D.C.Bob Johnson wrote:>PS, I really don't think there are ANY bugs with this bird at>present, on anything. I have flown it now half way around the>world and I am pretty Proficient with this bird. I get a>little frazzeld when people think they have found a bug and>they have not gone through the proper procedures.