I have purchased and installed thr King Air by Black Square.

I have watched many videos pertaining to cold and dark starting.

I am following the included checklist, but no matter what I cannot get this aircraft started. I turn on the starter, watch the turbine rpm gauge and move to low idle. This is where I have my issues. The IT temp gauge remains at zero, from what I’ve seen this should spike then settle and the turbine rpm should increase but it never goes beyond 20 and the engine shuts down.

can anyone see what I am doing wrong here? I have uninstalled and reinstalled just in case but as of yet I’ve only seen it run in videos.😩

Thanks

Phill Dant

Silly question but do you have fuel? Sometime my aircraft load with 0 fuel

Did you connect external power? Did you crack throttle levers? Did you switch on ignition buttons? Did you switch off all sources of power drain, such as Master avionics, air condition? 

I do have fuel.

I have tried with battery on, tried with ext power, tried with ignition armed and not armed. I have nothing on except the beacon light.

I am considering uninstalling and trying the stock KA

28 minutes ago, prdant said:

I do have fuel.

I have tried with battery on, tried with ext power, tried with ignition armed and not armed. I have nothing on except the beacon light.

I am considering uninstalling and trying the stock KA

You don't have to uninstall to try the stock KA. Play with the throttle levers. I do remember that I couldn't get one airplane to start unless the throttle levers were open but just the right amount. It wasn't the KingAir, but maybe your hardware is perceived as being in the wrong position.

Also, did you check that no failures are active? Maybe the engines are damaged. 

Edited June 7, 20232 yr by qqwertzde

19 minutes ago, qqwertzde said:

You don't have to uninstall to try the stock KA. Play with the throttle levers. I do remember that I couldn't get one airplane to start unless the throttle levers were open but just the right amount. It wasn't the KingAir, but maybe your hardware is perceived as being in the wrong position.

Also, did you check that no failures are active? Maybe the engines are damaged. 

No active failures, I will try again to mess with the throttles. The bravo quadrant has been pretty reliable in the past. 

2 hours ago, prdant said:

I have purchased and installed thr King Air by Black Square.

I have watched many videos pertaining to cold and dark starting.

I am following the included checklist, but no matter what I cannot get this aircraft started. I turn on the starter, watch the turbine rpm gauge and move to low idle. This is where I have my issues. The IT temp gauge remains at zero, from what I’ve seen this should spike then settle and the turbine rpm should increase but it never goes beyond 20 and the engine shuts down.

can anyone see what I am doing wrong here? I have uninstalled and reinstalled just in case but as of yet I’ve only seen it run in videos.😩

Thanks

Phill Dant

 

2 hours ago, prdant said:

I have purchased and installed thr King Air by Black Square.

I have watched many videos pertaining to cold and dark starting.

I am following the included checklist, but no matter what I cannot get this aircraft started. I turn on the starter, watch the turbine rpm gauge and move to low idle. This is where I have my issues. The IT temp gauge remains at zero, from what I’ve seen this should spike then settle and the turbine rpm should increase but it never goes beyond 20 and the engine shuts down.

can anyone see what I am doing wrong here? I have uninstalled and reinstalled just in case but as of yet I’ve only seen it run in videos.😩

Thanks

Phill Dant

Ok, I believe that I have figured it out. I copied my Baron profile to have a starting point for the King Air. I needed to change delete the ‘mixture’ settings and replace with “condition lever” settings. It started properly but while I was checking something else I forgot to increase my throttles a touch so the engines died but I think I have it solved. Will test again in the am.

I'd been enjoying the Black Square B350i over the past two week or so with no problems until today when I couldn't get the engines to start.

They would spool up to to 20% and that was it. I solved the problem by opening up the Bendix RDR1150 to the systems page and selecting "Reset All Failures".

 

...Lloyd

I have the same start engines issue. No way to get them start without ending up with ctrl-e and reseting damages done. This is new behaviour. Do you guys have find a definitve solution ?

Thanks

Souheil

Resetting all failures was a definitive fix for me.
And I know why.
I mistakenly started a flight with the  gear handle on my Honeycomb Bravo in the UP position (don't ask). When I hit Fly Now the B350 instantly fell to the ramp damaging both engines hence the need to fix each engine individually or simply hit Reset all Failures.

 

...Lloyd

 

Thanks Loyd. Will try that.

Souheil

On 6/12/2023 at 9:46 PM, Noell said:

Resetting all failures was a definitive fix for me.
And I know why.
I mistakenly started a flight with the  gear handle on my Honeycomb Bravo in the UP position (don't ask). 

Happens to me a lot too. Following the checklist to the letter will prevent this but sometimes one just want to get the plane in the sky a.s.a.p.