Do the FC3 aircraft have autostart??

[Granny]

I don't know how I never noticed this before but I found myself in cold FC3 jet yesterday, and feeling lazy I hit Lwin-Home to get the autostart sequence rolling.  This works on my F-16 like a champ, but nothing happened on the FC3 A10-A   Then I opened the Controls menu and did a search but could not find autostart.  Same for the Mig-29, I assume same for all FC3 aircraft. Am I missing it or is there not an autostart feature in FC3?

[Ironhand]

No auto start because it’s really not needed.

RShift + L turns on electrical power to all systems.

RShift + Home starts both engines at once

or, if you prefer,

RAlt + Home for left engine start

RCtrl + Home for right engine start.

[Exorcet]

A trick that works for FF planes is to R Atl + J out and then back in. Instant start up, no wait for align or anything. It might work for FC too, not sure. Only works in single player.

[Skuva]

6 hours ago, Exorcet said:

A trick that works for FF planes is to R Atl + J out and then back in. Instant start up, no wait for align or anything. It might work for FC too, not sure. Only works in single player.

From my observations, this works on all planes. But not on helis, which is sad, because it is where the trick would be the most significantly useful (eg.: skiping Ka-50's insane alignment process). Fun fact, they Hip gets happy when you do RAlt + J.

[Ironhand]

8 hours ago, Ironhand said:

No auto start because it’s really not needed.

RShift + L turns on electrical power to all systems.

RShift + Home starts both engines at once

or, if you prefer,

RAlt + Home for left engine start

RCtrl + Home for right engine start.

I think one of the FC3 aircraft requires you to start one engine at a time. Not sure which because I always start them in sequence. Can’t check which because, at present, my computer is very broken.

[cfrag]

Actually, AFAIK, autostart works in FC -- except you MUST make sure that your throttles are at zero, or the sequence won't start (at least the su25t and a-10a behave that way). So look at your trottle, zero it, and then hit auto-start.

 

Edited March 11, 2024 by cfrag

[draconus]

13 minutes ago, Ironhand said:

I think one of the FC3 aircraft requires you to start one engine at a time.

I'm only sure about F-15C - can't start both engines at the same time - RL limitation.