Airbus start separate engines

[marcelo meirelles]

Hi I have an apparently easy question. I am trying to configure the airbus starters. I've tried all possible functions, but the only one I got was the engine auto start. Only that way he drives the 2 engines together and I wanted to do it separately. Logically I tried engine 1 autostart for engine 1 and engine2 autostart for engine 2. But the plane doesn't understand the fsuipc command. I tried with parameter 1 and I couldn't do it either. any tips? thank you very much

[John Dowson]

13 hours ago, marcelo meirelles said:

Logically I tried engine 1 autostart for engine 1 and engine2 autostart for engine 2.

 The separate engine autostart controls are FSUIPC-added controls that use various offsets (depending on the aircraft type) to auto-stat the engine. Those offsets, or the controls/events sent when using those offsets, may no be working in the vanilla A320. I'll make a note and look into this at some point, but it may take a few weeks to get around to this. You could try one of the FBW mods to see if its working there.

John

[tubarao2007]

FBW is not working separete engines aswell

 

[John Dowson]

9 hours ago, tubarao2007 said:

FBW is not working separete engines aswell

Have you asked about this over on the FBW forums?
There also seem to be quite a few posts on the Asobo forums on starting the A320, e.g. https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/cant-start-engines-airbus-320/358396/9

Does this work via the UI controls? If so, you could see what event are being used and try to duplicate. Otherwise, if there are any A320 users out there that have this working, maybe they can comment...

Joh

[target11]

Hallo

I don't know if it can help
this method works on the a32nx configure a 3 position button (hotas warthog)
configure the " engin mode selector "

 

and in fs 2020 configure the keys of

"toggle engine 1 fuel valve"

and

"toggle engine  2 fuel valve"

and assign these keys to two buttons on your joystick
cordially

 

[jay960]

On 2/8/2021 at 12:17 AM, marcelo meirelles said:

Hi I have an apparently easy question. I am trying to configure the airbus starters. I've tried all possible functions, but the only one I got was the engine auto start. Only that way he drives the 2 engines together and I wanted to do it separately. Logically I tried engine 1 autostart for engine 1 and engine2 autostart for engine 2. But the plane doesn't understand the fsuipc command. I tried with parameter 1 and I couldn't do it either. any tips? thank you very much

I do not know if you still try to find the solution but I could make it work with that code.

You juste have to replace the "A" with the letter of your joystick and the "3, 2, 7 and 6" with the right button number (3=ENG2, 2=ENG1, 7=IGNI/START, 6=CRANK for me)

cheers

 

1=PA,3,C67064,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_2_TOGGLE}-
2=PA,3,C66301,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER2}-
3=PA,3,C66495,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG2}-
4=UA,3,C67064,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_2_TOGGLE}-
5=UA,3,C66301,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER2}-
6=UA,3,C66495,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG2}-

7=PA,2,C67063,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_1_TOGGLE}-
8=PA,2,C66300,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER1}-
9=PA,2,C66494,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG1}-
10=UA,2,C67063,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_1_TOGGLE}-
11=UA,2,C66300,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER1}-
12=UA,2,C66494,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG1}-

13=PA,7,C67275,0     -{ENGINE_MODE_IGN_SET}-
14=UA,7,C67274,0     -{ENGINE_MODE_NORM_SET}-

15=PA,6,C67273,0     -{ENGINE_MODE_CRANK_SET}-
16=UA,6,C67274,0     -{ENGINE_MODE_NORM_SET}-

 

[gunter]

jay960 - thank you for sharing, works fine!!

[speedbird144]

On 3/29/2021 at 11:43 AM, jay960 said:

I do not know if you still try to find the solution but I could make it work with that code.

You juste have to replace the "A" with the letter of your joystick and the "3, 2, 7 and 6" with the right button number (3=ENG2, 2=ENG1, 7=IGNI/START, 6=CRANK for me)

cheers

 

1=PA,3,C67064,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_2_TOGGLE}-
2=PA,3,C66301,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER2}-
3=PA,3,C66495,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG2}-
4=UA,3,C67064,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_2_TOGGLE}-
5=UA,3,C66301,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER2}-
6=UA,3,C66495,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG2}-

7=PA,2,C67063,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_1_TOGGLE}-
8=PA,2,C66300,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER1}-
9=PA,2,C66494,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG1}-
10=UA,2,C67063,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_1_TOGGLE}-
11=UA,2,C66300,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER1}-
12=UA,2,C66494,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG1}-

13=PA,7,C67275,0     -{ENGINE_MODE_IGN_SET}-
14=UA,7,C67274,0     -{ENGINE_MODE_NORM_SET}-

15=PA,6,C67273,0     -{ENGINE_MODE_CRANK_SET}-
16=UA,6,C67274,0     -{ENGINE_MODE_NORM_SET}-

 

Hello.

I am also looking for help. I wonder if I can find a solution here. 

I have TQ from Flightsimpm. I was able to configure Carnk/Mode/IGN selector but I cannot figure out how to configure engine start switches. 

I did not quite understand what do I have to replace in the example above. It says to replace letter A with the letter of my joystick. My joystick shows letter "K". I replaced all A.s to K:

1=PK,3,C67064,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_2_TOGGLE}-
2=PK,3,C66301,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER2}-
3=PK,3,C66495,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG2}-
4=UK,3,C67064,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_2_TOGGLE}-
5=UK,3,C66301,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER2}-
6=UK,3,C66495,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG2}-

7=PK,2,C67063,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_1_TOGGLE}-
8=PK,2,C66300,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER1}-
9=PK,2,C66494,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG1}-
10=UK,2,C67063,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_1_TOGGLE}-
11=UK,2,C66300,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER1}-
12=UK,2,C66494,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG1}-

No I am trying to understand regarding 3, 2, 7 and 6" with the right button number (3=ENG2, 2=ENG1, 7=IGNI/START, 6=CRANK). Like I said start selector works so I think I do not need this part: 7=IGNI/START, 6=CRANK. What numbers am I replacing then? Just numbers 3 and 2? And where do I need to replace them? Like this one: 1=PK,3,C67064,0?

Also where do I add all this changes? into INI file? 

Thank you 

Below is my FSUIPC with those switches:

[John Dowson]

6 minutes ago, speedbird144 said:

1=PK,3,C67064,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_2_TOGGLE}-
2=PK,3,C66301,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER2}-
3=PK,3,C66495,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG2}-
4=UK,3,C67064,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_2_TOGGLE}-
5=UK,3,C66301,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER2}-
6=UK,3,C66495,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG2}-

7=PK,2,C67063,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_1_TOGGLE}-
8=PK,2,C66300,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER1}-
9=PK,2,C66494,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG1}-
10=UK,2,C67063,0     -{ENGINE_MASTER_1_TOGGLE}-
11=UK,2,C66300,0     -{TOGGLE_STARTER1}-
12=UK,2,C66494,0     -{TOGGLE_FUEL_VALVE_ENG1}-

No I am trying to understand regarding 3, 2, 7 and 6" with the right button number (3=ENG2, 2=ENG1, 7=IGNI/START, 6=CRANK).

Those assignments have everything assigned to buttons 3 and 2. Your images show buttons 8 and 9 (with the same control for each).

Just do as the OP suggests, and change the button numbers to the ones you want to use, e.g. change the 2 to 8 for engine 1, and the 3 for 9 for engine 2. You should also manually remove any original assignments you have to those buttons numbers as they will be no longer needed.

Note also that the FSUIPC assignments window will only show one assignment if you have multiple, and will be grayed out so it cannot be changed. You can only update by manually editing the ini - and once you do this, click the 'Reload all buttons button to reload the modified ini file.

John 

 

[speedbird144]

Thanks John.

I was able to find the right settings in the sim without assigning them in FSUIPC: