Can't turn on External Power

[seipp]

I just did a flight, parked and shutdown on the ramp. I tried to turn on External power to work on the aircraft mappings so I wouldn't drain the battery. I toggle it on and. after a couple of seconds, it turns back off.

Gregg

[Randolf]

@seipp There has to be ground power available at that particular parking spot, and your parking brake or wheel chocks have to be set. More here:
https://community.justflight.com/topic/6371/can-t-activate-external-power-gpu

[seipp]

@Randolf Thanks Rando. I hope that's something that can be changed someday. You can't really know where to park in order to make groundpower available. I suppose I could tow it around until I found a spot but that's not super realistic.

[szln6z]

Just experienced this myself. I was definitely not parked on a parking spot. I agree with @seipp that the restriction should only be chocks or brakes, to accommodate airports with crap parking design.

[CaptKornDog]

I'd definitely love to see external power available on demand! Some airport designs just don't have parking properly coded.