6 hours ago, lupedelupe said:

Tried that too, no luck. 

I do that as a matter of course anyway, unfortunately doesn't help.

That's what Joshua Cowan suggested. Doesn't make any difference at all. 

Be sure ye be pulling the fuel cutoff switch OUT rather than pushing it in - I could swear it was the opposite but when I went to go make this video I had like 17,466 failed starts with it pushed in.

(this is just a quickie mind you I'm aware I took some shortcuts with the startup and shutdown procedure, and forgot to turn on my landing light arrrrggggghhh!)

 

Edited January 31, 20233 yr by Stoopy

Thank you @Stoopy. Fuel shutoff pulled out (included documentation says push in) gave me some hope; but still no luck. 
Next I removed ALL the other stuff tied to Community folder and downloaded a fresh copy of the 500; then tried a Ctrl+E start, which worked (it hasn’t up to this point)! So clearly moving in the right direction. Then I tried a full start-up sequence and no start. Next tried same with fuel shutoff pulled out and at last got a start. 
Strange. Must be some conflict with my array of add ons, now working through a process of elimination …

 

Huge thanks for the fuel shutoff tip! 👍👍👍

3 hours ago, lupedelupe said:

Huge thanks for the fuel shutoff tip! 👍👍👍

You're welcome and yeah, something seems wonky.  Here's a guy that is starting her up with the fuel cutoff switch pushed in, which did not work for me last night when trying to make that video - no way nohow, even after restarting the flight several times, exiting and restarting MSFS, and then even doing a clean boot!  And I was friggin positive that was how I had done it the previous two days!

 

It only works for me with the Fuel Cutoff pulled out. 

I still have mixed results: once in a while I can get a C+D start, but most of the time it needs Ctrl+E with throttle set to Flight Idle and Fuel Cutoff set to off (out). Makes no sense to me: computers are meant to be consistent, no?

Either way I hope Cowan can address this and perhaps also tweak the lean-to-left tendency that the 500E has in hover. Aside from that a very enjoyable heli but it does seem to need a whole lot more refinement. 

I've been going over this in my head because I am still perplexed.

I know for a fact that on Saturday and Sunday I had to have the fuel cutoff pushed in (forward) to start.

Last night i was very tired but wanted to play with the startup after reading this thread.  I know with 95% certainty that the very first time that I went to start it up, the fuel cutoff was pushed in as usual, and it started right up.

"OK" I said to myself, "Let's get that on video to help troubleshoot on AvSim".  So I hit Alt-z to bring up the Nvidia tools, start recording, and I'll be dipped....no start!

Half an hour and several deleted recordings, head scratching and reloads/reboots later sith not one single auccessful start, I confirmed the fuel cutoff had to be out (aft) to start!

Nothing really changed on my system other than loading some additional small airport sceneries from flightsim.to in order to enhance some sightseeing flights that I'd like to do with this helo.  So I am wondering uf the Alt-Z in some way altered an in-game setting that is persistent across reloads/reboots.  Or if this addon has any kind if persistent data it saves that would change this behavior inadvertently.

Although I fully expect the truth will indicate I am completely wrong and have lost my mind...

Wait. On second thought I did make a camera file mod to fix the pilot eyepoint that installs to the community folder and put it on the ".to".  But that couldn't mess this up...  could it? @lupedelupe are you using that mod?

1 hour ago, Stoopy said:

Wait. On second thought I did make a camera file mod to fix the pilot eyepoint that installs to the community folder and put it on the ".to".  But that couldn't mess this up...  could it? @lupedelupe are you using that mod?

Not using your mod; I always set my own custom camera views (independent of the original camera views). 

Quick update: since updating the sim (AAU) I've had normal behaviour on four separate flights (i.e. it starts as one would expect and the Fuel Shutoff is in). have noticed that the CDI on the GNS lists GPS and, well, GPS though. But this is probably something to do with the update. 

... now if only that can't to the left can be addressed. 🙂

 

EDIT: spoke too soon. Start number 5 needed the Fuel Cutoff pulled again. 🙈

Edited February 1, 20233 yr by lupedelupe

Well I don't know about you fellers and fellettes but I'm having a blast with this thing!

 

There’s an update out now on their store for those who bought there, notes:

https://cowansim.com/changelog-msfs-500E/?fbclid=IwAR3NvA676Qb__GKkutngniMCpWNuFEToiaBJ2hWtMhcxYjgZMWDfdqv5wLQ

It has been sent to other stores.

Yeah, loving this thing as well. And only too happy to support a small dev in what is evidently a niche market. Hoping we see his B222s and H125 as well. 

The start up procedure seems to work as expected now post patch.

8 hours ago, Stoopy said:

Well I don't know about you fellers and fellettes but I'm having a blast with this thing!

 

What sort of sensitivity settings are you using?

1 hour ago, Mace said:

What sort of sensitivity settings are you using?

Pretty cheesy and dialed back, I'm afraid... here's for my stick/cyclic (-39%) and rudder pedals (-50%):

14 minutes ago, Stoopy said:

Pretty cheesy and dialed back, I'm afraid... here's for my stick/cyclic (-39%) and rudder pedals (-50%):

That's not cheesy.  I think whatever a person does to allow themselves to have fun with it, and fly it reasonably well...I'm all in favor of doing that.  And you seem to exhibit good control, and if and when my Virpil stuff arrives (ordered 12/30/22, still not here...) I will probably want to purchase this helo, and will be experimenting with sensitivity settings.  So, thanks for posting this.