Well, Im thinking that this is a FS2002 related issue.Hope someone can help.The deal is when i first start FS..and load any aircraft, the engines are running and a few seconds later the shut themselves down. ( without pilot control).Then a minute or so later i loose " power " ///ie lights ..sometimes even guage displays.This occurs after flight as well after engines have been shut down.Please help !!!!CapNoz

A few questions:Is the APU running?If the APU is running is the APU generator switch on?If in doubt select external power in the PIC menu!

Yes the APU is running. And powering the systems.But the problem isnt the APU, because the engines breifly are running at the begining , when you first load ANY airplane. Then they just shut down. seconds later by themselves. And a minute later ( with APU run... the lights and VORs etc are inoperable. Its wierd.. and i think it has something to do with FS2002, because it is not specific to PIC only .. rather all the airliners in my aircraft directory . Also i notice the light switches become inoperable. they click , but do not move nor serve any functionality.

Not sure if it will effect it but have you tried the dead battery fix in fsuipc?Ian

I have no idea how to do that. :SBut it sounds like it may be the problem.I would be very glad if someone could help me figure this out :)Peter

Just a thought...you might want to try going into the FSUIPC and enabling the "extend battery life" option. I had a similiar problem and this seemed to fix it.My problem was that the lights and NAV/COM would not work after 5 minutes of sitting at the gate. Brian