I have flown a couple of dozen real craft, mostly SEL but a few twins, never a turbo-prop. This plane has brought me to my knees. I finally got the flight plan programming down pat, got the props locked properly, and thought all was well until today. Both engines were started as per procedure, prop latches set, almost ready to taxi and the starboard engine quits. I attempted to restart it several times: fuel pressure on, selected engine for ignition, pressed starter which lit as expected. A second or two later ignition switch centered and start light extinguished. I have checked and double checked but can find no reason for this to happen. I'm guessing it is propeller related but don't see how it could not be set in proper position.What I need is a tutorial that follows procedures EXACTLY as they should occur. As it is now I am jumping back and forth between the AOM and the tutorial (which deviates from procedure also). Sorry, but I am just not as quick to pick up on things as I used to. I will go back to my Beechcraft Duke for a day or two and the give the JS 41 another go. Stupid me: I went ahead and bought FSCrew for this plane. No telling when I will be up to trying it.Regards from an old fud that learned to fly in a J-3.

Were the engines actually properly started (gone through the full process and stabilised with starter selector returned to normal automatically)? As I have noticed not on fault of your own sometimes during a bad load of the cold/dark aircraft sometimes they wont start fully and will hang but seem to be running (making noise, even smoking). later they just shut or break down and can't be restarted.

AS far as I can tell everything was in proper position before I went through start procedure. After the port engine started I waited for the selector to click back to off and disconnected ground power.Then I started the starboard engine, waited for the selector to recenter, then turned both fuel pumps off. Shortly afterward the starboard engine quit. After rechecking the switch panel, condition lever, etc I gave it a few tries I decided to give it up until another day.

Yeah it sounds like they started correctly. Did the engine catch fire (extremely high EGT) or just shut down like it run out of fuel? I have only once had a engine shutdown because I turned off the fuel pumps too soo after the start from memory when I first got it.Try again, if they still do it take good notice of the engine display to see if it was EGT or fuel flow or something, it shouldnt be happening by your description unless you or maybe FS2Crew (I havent bought it yet, as I dont have a mic) is doing something like advancing a throttle (aural warning test) while condition levers are at taxi. Also there is no chance you moved the condition lever accidently into feather? Considering going by the AOM you should start the engines ready to throw the conidtion levers into feather incase of hot start/hang start, which you need to press to red feather lock buttons down ready, if you leave them unlocked after start it is pretty easy to accidently move one for both into feather which would shut the engine/s down.Just throwing ideas out there. :)

I had similar issue, but soon I have discovered that it was caused by turning off fuel pumps to fast. Wait for engines to stabilize. I do other things in that time (as I saw somewhere over YT in real world Jetstream) like turning on power generators, setting up FMC etc.