can not reproduce Hot start from ground randomly starts with throttle lever to "off"

[Johnny Johnny Johnny]

So I was doing my usual practice setting everything up in the mission editor to speed things up, however, I notice whenever I restart the mission, a lot of times the helicopter starts with throttle lever to OFF and it starts powering down as soon as I join unless I quickly move the throttle lever manually. Sometimes I start with throttle on "fly" sometimes it starts at OFF, no input from my end. 

Not sure if it is just something on my end or a bug, couldn't find any bug report regarding this.

Reproduce by go to mission editor, place AH-64D on hot start on ground, join in, quit mission, restart it and repeat a few times.

Map: Syria

 

 

[Johnny Johnny Johnny]

After some more playing last night, this also happens when hot start in the air, so it is not limited to hot start ground, at least on my end

[BIGNEWY]

Check for double inputs and also check if you are using synchronise hotas at start in the dcs settings

[Johnny Johnny Johnny]

OK so I did some more testing

I did not have any devices except keyboard for the power lever, activating the synchronise hotas fixed the problem, now it kept going and upon mission start you can see the power lever going forward instantly upon joining the cockpit.  

I tried to disable the sync and yet the same issue appeared, so it seems like when it is not in sync mode, it (randomly?) starts in either 0 power or full power. 

But the only difference here is the colletive input when in sync mode, the collective input should have no impact on the power lever no?  even if you have the lowest collective input I assume it is not supposed to go to power off on the lever. I also got the issue if I put my collective to 0 upon mission start, then the power lever stayed at off sometimes, so I assume it needs some power to get going. 

Not an expert on the apache if that is how it works or not, just what I see  

Edited March 22, 2022 by Johnny Johnny Johnny