Can't activate external power (GPU)

Raller

For some reason I can't activate the GPU (external power) on the tablet. The switch keeps popping back on its own. What am I doing wrong or what have I not taken into account? Could it be any assigned key on the keyboard?
Piston Duke, PC MSFS SU14

Black Square

You have to be in a parking area where ground power is available. I have a solution that would make ground power available anywhere, but it required a little more coding and testing than I was willing to do just before release. I'll see about adding it to all my aircraft when I publish updates soon.

jmarkows

@Black-Square said in Can't activate external power (GPU):

You have to be in a parking area where ground power is available. I have a solution that would make ground power available anywhere, but it required a little more coding and testing than I was willing to do just before release. I'll see about adding it to all my aircraft when I publish updates soon.

Please! Something small like you have for the engine heaters, assuming it would be a small, man-portable generator like what the FSW C414 connects, and not the power truck like MSFS calls up.

If you're at a small airfield that has no power truck, MSFS won't let you use external power.

Black Square

That is what the aircraft already has, a 28V battery cart, which is quite appropriate to the aircraft. The issue is that making it available at all times requires disconnecting all the code from the MSFS external power system and implementing my own. This can affect 50-100 lines of code across a dozen files, so it's not as easy as it sounds. It's something I've wanted to do for a while now, though, so I will probably figure it out for the Starship and port it back into my previous aircraft.

Hawkeye

@Black-Square Wait, are you doing the Beechcraft Starship!?

mmcmah

Personally, I think it's more realistic to not have it available anywhere.

SadSky

Sorry, but how can we know if a parking space have available electrical power?
: )

WingC3

I don't, personally, see this as a must-have. I think it's entirely realistic to have to do a battery start at small/remote airfields. That's how it actually is.

Randolf

Yea, but what is simulated here is a small battery cart, possibly DIY wired together from old car batteries, not a diesel electric generator unit. It's totally plausible to have such a thing at any small airstrip. I'm all for having it available anytime and you can decide if you want to use it or not.

Randolf

But I've seen some planes, probably mainly airliners in the sim have ground power available anywhere. Are they hacking their own external power code? Isn't there some override present in the sim which allows you to do that?
Like mentioned here
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/external-power-is-always-available/568552

jmarkows

@WingC3 said in Can't activate external power (GPU):

I don't, personally, see this as a must-have. I think it's entirely realistic to have to do a battery start at small/remote airfields. That's how it actually is.

Ok, and what about airfields that DO have it, but MSFS has no power cart?

WingC3

@jmarkows That should be fixed.

grisu92

@Black-Square hi, can you see the sun visors again, because from the external view of the aircraft you can't see whether they are lowered or not.... thanks, great work anyway