I got the Carenado 182T Skylane in the Marketplace for Flight Simulator 2020 (FS20).  I have had good luck with Carenado products in the past. 

When I am starting the 182T, I am using the checklist provided with the plane (PDFs).  I am following them through pre-flight and pre-start including arming the standby battery.  The engine turns and turns but will not fire. 

Things I am doing:  I AM priming.  With the Masters Alt and Battery on and the mixture pulled out, I turn on the priming pump and advance the mixture to full rich until I see fuel flow movement, and then count to three (1001, 1002, 1003.  Then I turn off the pump and return mixture to idle cutoff. (all the way out.)

Then I crack the throttle a quarter inch... about 15%..(I have tried 20 and 25%).  I turn the magneto switch to start and advance the mixture hoping it will start around 50%.  I get to full mixture, not fire, and turn for about 3 to 5 5 more seconds.  Nothing. I wait 15 seconds and try again.. nothing.   

I press CNTRL E and the engine fires right up.  I immediately turn the magneto switch to off. (kill the engine)   Then I pull the mixture out, check the throttle (14%) and I leave it there.  I try the procedure per the checklist.  Turn the key, advance the mixture and it starts right up. So what is the auto start setting that is missing from the procedure?  

I have flown a 182T and never had a problem starting it per the procedure in the POH. (Do it from the checklist, but, could do it from memory. ) I also know that every combustion engine has a personality, but I can not figure this one out.  My friend said just use CNTRL-E and don't worry about it.   IF I were a gamer this would be OK, but for simming, it kills it for me.

Any ideas? Are you starting the CT182T using the procedures?  Can you shine some light on how you are priming and starting?

Dennis M

After spending another hour on this.. trying no priming, 2, 3, 5, 7 second priming, sea level, 900ft, 1800 ft elevation airports with no luck, I think I will wait a day to hear from Carenado, or take a hard pass, request a refund and wait for A2A.   I will wait to hear from Carenado before posting giving it a "one star" in the market place. It might be an easy fix, and I hope so. 

My brother-in-law purchased it and has the same problem, "the only way it starts is with autostart".   So I call a old flying friend who I know is enjoying the new sim.  He bought the 182T; will not start without autostart.  The funny thing is, I saw a video of a guy reviewing...  he firewalled the mixture, cracked the throttle, and it fired right up (like a 172 starting procedure)  We tried that and it did not work.

I was having fun with the stock 172.  Going back to that for now.

I have the same experience with the Carenado 182T in MSFS2020.

I have found this workaround:
Start from cold and dark - use CTRL+E - shut the plane down and save in cold and dark.
Then load flight and I can turn the engine on as normal.

After that it seems fixed for future flights starting cold and dark!?

Edited August 26, 20205 yr by SAS735

This worked Great!    I think it is a reasonable workaround for a one week old sim/addon.  For some of the aircraft, I "persistent aircraft sim", so this is fine for me. (start them where I left them.)

Thanks SAS735

It seems that you need to do the "fix" after every restart of the sim.

Follow up:  thanks to Romulan7000 at MSFS Forum who posted another solution.  It seems the fuel cutoff is not modeled, but required in FS20 to start.  Even though the Fuel Selector is the cuttoff valve, the fuel cuttoff variable in the aircraft model needs to be set.  Prior to priming, press ALT+v to toggle the fuel cutoff.  Then the plane using the checklist.  Worked for me.