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Fuel; Weight setting

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Hey all,

I recently found that one can set the weight of fuel. But I just cannot seem to find where I discovered this. I cannot remember if its in a config file or air file, and where it was at.

I 'almost' think it was in a string setting, like for a fuel tank, at the end, a weight setting, but I remember reading 'weight of fuel' and it was set I think at 6 or 6.5 or 6.7.


Does anyone remember seeing this setting? I dug around in FS9 configs and found nothing. I looked in the FS2004 aircraft container and found nothing.



Bill
 
(FS9)

aircraft.cfg

[fuel]
// for -aft, rihgt -left, up -down, Volume
Center1= 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 1212.55
External1= -3.50, 0.00, 0.00, 422.7//Wing left & right
fuel_type=2
number_of_tank_selectors=1
electric_pump=1




type =1 for prop

type=2 for jet




Airfile section 312
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That was in the FS98 and FS2000 ;)
 
Flusirainer said:
(FS9)

aircraft.cfg

[fuel]
// for -aft, rihgt -left, up -down, Volume
Center1= 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 1212.55
External1= -3.50, 0.00, 0.00, 422.7//Wing left & right
fuel_type=2
number_of_tank_selectors=1
electric_pump=1




type =1 for prop

type=2 for jet





That was in the FS98 and FS2000 ;)
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While REC_312 is marked as obsolete... it is not marked as unused. I'd say someone might want to check to see if it actually changes fuel weight or not before we decide it's not of value.
 
You just changed fuel type. Doesn't change the weight....okay, it toggles the weight ;) But you know what I mean.


I will have to go back and check if it is 312 or not that works, but there is an entry that changes fuel weight, but it's been a few years since I looked at it.
 
The fuel type changes.....dare I say this....fuel density. The density is expressed as lbs per gallon. For jet fuel (type 2) it is 6.7 lbs per gallon. For AVgas, piston (type 1) it is 6.0 lbs per gallon .
100 gallons of type 1 piston fuel weights 600 lbs
100 gallons of type 2 jet fuel weights 670 lbs

Roy
 
Roy Holmes said:
The fuel type changes.....dare I say this....fuel density. The density is expressed as lbs per gallon. For jet fuel (type 2) it is 6.7 lbs per gallon. For AVgas, piston (type 1) it is 6.0 lbs per gallon .
100 gallons of type 1 piston fuel weights 600 lbs
100 gallons of type 2 jet fuel weights 670 lbs

Roy
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Lol. Yes you are correct, but that is a 'toggle'. There is (was?) a record and air file entry that allows any numeric input of fuel weight in pounds per gallon up to two decimals.
 
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