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Detect if (Fighter) Jet

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Hello,

does anybody know a way to detect via SimConnect variables if the current user aircraft is a Fighter Jet?

I checked the "ENGINE TYPE", but "Jet" is also returned for "normal" turbine aircraft.

Then I thought maybe to just check if there is an afterburner available or not, but I also can't find a variable that returns this: There are variables for the afterburner, but they seem to only tell me if and how much it is active, but not if it is available at all.

Anybody an idea if there is another way to distinguish between a "normal" turbine aircraft (like an A32X, 737, business jet, ...) and a "real" fighter jet (F22, ...)?

Best regards and thanks in advance
Andreas
 
The STRUCT ENGINE POSITION:index variable may give you a clue. On twin engined fighters the engines do tend to be pretty close to the center line. Not definitive of course.
You can use SimConnect to retrieve the path qualified name of the .air file. Once you have that, you have the aircraft.cfg file. You can parse it to check for the availability of afterburners.

Doug
 
Hello Doug,

first thanks a lot for your very quick reply!

Using the engine positions I would be afraid a bit that also the smaller business jets (with engines in the center at the end of the plane) would fall in this category then.

So I agree that reading the "aircraft.cfg" and checking the afterburner availability is probably the best option.

It's a pity that there is no SimConnect variable for that, but well, at least there is a work-around. :-)

Best regards and thanks again
Andreas
 
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