Of course, CTL-E auto starts the engines, but in the wrong sequence for the VA I fly for. Is there a hot-key combination in FSX to start the engines separately? I would love to do cold and dark start-ups but my RW time commitments won't allow for that.

 

BTW, I have googled this. Several sites mention the hot-key combination of E-2 to "select" engine #2, but when I press that combination nothing happens. I tried E-2 and then CTL-E but it starts engine #1 first. What am I missing?

Of course, CTL-E auto starts the engines, but in the wrong sequence for the VA I fly for. Is there a hot-key combination in FSX to start the engines separately? I would love to do cold and dark start-ups but my RW time commitments won't allow for that.

 

BTW, I have googled this. Several sites mention the hot-key combination of E-2 to "select" engine #2, but when I press that combination nothing happens. I tried E-2 and then CTL-E but it starts engine #1 first. What am I missing?

 

You can cheat a little...

 

*before* you start your VA's ACARS program, start the CRJ with ctrl-e, and let both engines spool up to the running state (ie, settled at 33% N1), then press the 'STOP' button for both engines on the overhead, and push down the fuel cutoff tabs on the throttles, wait for the engines to spool down, and then start your ACARS program.

 

To start engine 2, now all you'd need to do, once you're ready for flight, is press 'start' on engine 2 on the overhead, and it'll pull up the fuel cut-off tab and start the #2 engine, then once #2 is stable, press 'start' on engine #1 and it'll repeat

 

Basically, you're getting ctrl-e to do a prepared cold&dark setup, then spooling the engines down, but leaving everything else in a preset state for a startup, so once you are ready, you're doing the bare minimum to restart the engines running

 

 

Another question would be what VA uses an system that rejects the order of engine starts - starting engine #1 first is fairly normal anyway, the only reason to start #2 first is if you're on ground air and don't want to crossbleed to #1, but then you'd probably need to crossbleed to start #1 from #2's bleed anyway.

Got it fixed!

 

I had to depress the CTL-Shift-F4 key combination after I pressed the start button for the engine I was trying to start. Apparently a bug in the default CRJ-700.