I won't call myself "new to flightgear", per se. I've gotten accustomed to flying the DHC-6 (did an airport-hop from Tofino to Attu Station, AK to get used to it), and I now wish to try out the Cessna-182S. However, even though I followed both engine start procedures (the procedure on the checklist and the one on the wiki page), I notice that both of them do not work and the engine RPM hangs just above 1000, then drops as I release the start key. I did a quick look around my gauges and came to the conclusion that there is no fuel flow; the needle on the gauge simply does not budge, no matter how much I manipulate the engine controls. Didn't seem to work when I did the procedure to the letter, so I decided to go all-in, open the throttle fully, enable the fuel pump and anything that can throw as much oil and fuel at the engine, and tried starting the engine with all of these systems running at the same time, again to no avail. Is there something blocking the fuel pump? Some sort of cover that I need to remove or switch that I need to flick? If so, why isn't this mentioned in the checklist? Note that I checked my fuel load and all tanks are full, I also sampled the fuel (hey, you never know) and the color is light blue, so that shouldn't be a problem unless lead content and its resulting wear on the engine is simulated in-game (I highly doubt that).
Thank you for consideration - I've never actually flown an aircraft before.