On Thursday 29 April 2004 19:59, Andy Ross wrote: > Lee Elliott wrote: > > It looks like the fuel was being taken from each tank at the same rate > > instead of proportionally, depending upon their capacity, with the > > result that the external wing tanks were emptied while the other tanks > > still held plenty of fuel, and this caused the engine shutdown. > > Indeed. The proportionality feature (a hack to handle the fact that > you couldn't do tank selection in the original code) was removed with > the move to the Nasal fuel code. Now, trying to draw fuel from an > empty tank causes an engine failure. In real planes (with exceptions, > obviously), you have to select tanks correctly. The proper pilot > operation in this case would have been to deselect (set the "selected" > property to false) the wing tanks before they were empty. > > Obviously some aircraft will be able to draw fuel at different rates > from different tanks, but in general this capability will be more > complicated than simple proportionality. > > Andy
Fair enough - it's more realistic. Is there a way of starting a Nasal script automatically at start-up? (this would help with zeroing the A-10 external tanks for the clean configuration) I could do a script that monitors the tank levels and de-selects them when they're empty but I don't know how to best invoke it. Perhaps an auto fuel management instrument might be the best answer - when it's clicked, or set to engaged, the fuel management script is invoked. It could then be switched off as well. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
