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MSFS20 Cylinder head temperature and exhaust gas temperature for each cylinder?

I don't know how to do this, but I'm pretty sure I've seen this information on some airplanes. Could be G36 Bonanza with some mod or without. Check it out.
 
It's a fiddle. I know because I've just done something similar for the Wright Cyclone 14 which has two cylinder head temperature probes and two cylinder base temperature probes per engine. The sim just gives you a single figure per engine.
 
You may be able to "fiddle" with it using


RECIP ENG CYLINDER HEALTHIndex high 16 bits is engine number, low16 cylinder number, both indexed from 1.Percent_over_100TYPE_FLOAT64
 
ronh said:
You may be able to "fiddle" with it using


RECIP ENG CYLINDER HEALTHIndex high 16 bits is engine number, low16 cylinder number, both indexed from 1.Percent_over_100TYPE_FLOAT64
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Hi Ron, Where did you find that variable? I don't see it in the variables list in the MSFS SDK Documentation...
 
DragonflightDesign said:
Ron: every time I've tried that variable I've just got a big fat zero from it. How are you parsing it?
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Your right, I just looked in the SDK, sorry got bitten by the "doesn't work as shown" bug. Has the title Racing , so maybe yet to come with the future update.
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LOL, ASOBO cheats in the CHT/EGT in adding a fiddle constant to the cylinders, .98, .95,.91 and 1.0 are multiplied to the engine EGT/CHT to provide 4 cylinders. I was hoping you could do the same with the HEALTH value.
 
RECIP ENG CYLINDER HEALTH:index is an old FSX:Acceleration variable.

No idea whether it even worked back then.

You could use day of the week to create offsets. So on Sunday cylinder 1 runs a bit hot, on Monday it's cylinder 3. Or maybe in the morning it's cylinder 4 that's a bit warm. Or maybe cylinder 2 starts off a bit cold and gets up to temperature the longer the flight goes on.
 
In my case: it loads a randomised variation per cylinder each time you fire up the engine and that figure remains for the rest of the flight. As the engine is a big radial, at one point I did half-seriously consider varying the CHT depending on wind direction and wind speed relative to the aircraft i.e. if the wind direction was at 45 degrees to the nose, no.4 engine would run marginally cooler than no.1.
 
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