Hi Guys

 

Finally bought myself a rig thats capable of running FSX with real nice fps and graphics. Today I bought the 737NGX with the additional 600/700. At the moment i'm trying to load up this awesome looking bird from a cold and dark situation. I enable the battery and the standby power. But I am unable to initialise the apu. I hold down the apu start switch to run till it clicks but the apu doesnt power up. And the needle in the display doesnt rise to show the apu power starting to run. I have all four fule pumps switched on and nothing happens. Even the FMC is blank. I have tried running the tutorial from the start and got to the point where I couldn't even start the engines. On checking the apu, the apu was on but no power was being supplied even the the bleed air was on.

 

Am I doing something wrong? I also own the 737, 747 and MD11 for Fs2004 so I am not new to advanced simulations like this.

 

I am running FSX on Win 7 in its own folder outside the program files(X86) folder with admin rights.

 

Bit dissapointed I paid over £60 for this plane and I can't even fly it.

 

Regards Jason

Have you tried it 2nd time? It didn't start for me once and I just re-loaded the aircraft and it worked!

You need to move the APU master switch to RUN and then one more position down to START and then release it. It will move back up to RUN. The APU should then begin to start. It takes a few seconds and you won't see much happening until it reaches 95% RPM.

Bit dissapointed I paid over £60 for this plane and I can't even fly it.

 

Let's troubleshoot a little and make sure it's not an operating error first...

The fact that other people aren't having the same issue is enough to at least say "you know, I'm not new to this, but it might not be their fault."

 

Try what Kevin mentioned.

Additionally, screenshots always help. Were there any fault indications on the panel?

Tjek your failures

Do you have fuel? Also, if you have fuel did you try to start the APU before there was fuel? Running the APU dry will often result in a damaged APU. Check for maintaince issues.

Hi Thanks for your replys

 

I know to select start first then run on the apu, the egt never rises. I get a low pressure warning which never goes out and the word fault next to it, Can't double check on that as not in the game atm. I am in the middle of downloading the sp for both packs to see if that fixes it, and yes I start out with FSX default flight which loads into the vc and from there i load the pmdg aircraft. The plane loads with engines running and I choose cold and dark short from the fmc. Then go through the process of getting the bird up and running to the point where the apu will not start, no indication of the egt rising the needle stays firmly still and does not rise.

 

Regards Jason

I get a low pressure warning which never goes out and the word fault next to it

 

...and there's the problem.

 

The fault means that the start procedure isn't being properly followed, or there's a fault with the APU. Next time you load the aircraft, go into the options in the FMC and check to make sure no failures are active. I've had mine give me issues before, and I just flip it back up to OFF until all of the lights go out and try again. It's worked for the two times it's happened to me.

 

Also, for what it's worth, you don't need to load a flight at all. You can select the NGX from the free flight screen and all will be well. If you always want to load cold and dark, there is an option in the PMDG Setup menu of the FMC (near the same spot you'd find your failures). The intro manual also explains how to get to these menus.

Definately some maintenance problem.. Had the same, and it almost caused me an headache but then I maintenanced the plane and problem solved

Check for a APU failure in the failures menu within the FMC, if the APU fault light illuminated then it is a fault. It is likely to fix itself next time you restart the sim, if not check the failures page.

 

I have had a couple APU failed starts/faults due to messing around switching it on and off.

Think I may have found a temporary work around for this. On the initial load of this aircrat it starts with the engines running. I can get the apu running then, So I do that then I shut down the engines. All I then need to do is load up the fmc and restart then engines and I should be good to go. Just gonna test this out.

 

Regards Jason

The FMC will work [to get to PMDG menus] even without power, just hold the menu button down until it comes alive.

Oh And I also checked for any faults within the fmc and none were there. Also failures was turned to off.

 

Regards Jason

 

Well got the aircraft in the air using my work around. Will have another go from cold and dark later.

 

Regards Jason

It doesn't necessarily show an failur.. Just do an maintance but it shouldn't be nessesary for every flight

If you are starting at some kind of Cold-and-Dark setup, I'd first get ground power on, and then start the APU. MY first week of flying the NGX was plagued with restarts just because I would start C&D and immediately attempt an APU start, to no avail.