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Hey all,
I am not liking the stock coding for petrol reciprocating engines. On one gauge readout, I changed the oil pressure to one based on RPM. Now it behaves realistic. But CHT and Oil Temp are still nearly lifeless. I experimented with them for quite a while last night, doing climbouts at maximum output, etc, as well as testing at idle. High overheating temps also read hot on the ground at idle, and cool idle settings ran cold at altitude.
So I am thinking of doing another couple of 'fudging' systems to make a more realistic oil temp and CHT readout...
But....
What I had in mind was something based on OAT + RPM. It should probably include mixture in the 'mix', pardon the pun.
I thought I would see what others think.
I looked through the settings notes in AAM in the sections that run CHT and Oil Temp in the AIR files. They are basically hard coded. So this is where I am standing presently on this.
The gauges are just the little triangle slider readouts in the Garmin G1000 MFD engine ECIAS center. Nothing spectacular, but... Some of them just barely move. Even with lots of 'umph' tweaking in the scaler coordinates, (which seems to backfire now and then).
My engine CHT and Oil Temps are standard for all reciprocating engines. Mooney, Extra, Cessna, etc.
I am not liking the stock coding for petrol reciprocating engines. On one gauge readout, I changed the oil pressure to one based on RPM. Now it behaves realistic. But CHT and Oil Temp are still nearly lifeless. I experimented with them for quite a while last night, doing climbouts at maximum output, etc, as well as testing at idle. High overheating temps also read hot on the ground at idle, and cool idle settings ran cold at altitude.
So I am thinking of doing another couple of 'fudging' systems to make a more realistic oil temp and CHT readout...
But....
What I had in mind was something based on OAT + RPM. It should probably include mixture in the 'mix', pardon the pun.
I thought I would see what others think.
I looked through the settings notes in AAM in the sections that run CHT and Oil Temp in the AIR files. They are basically hard coded. So this is where I am standing presently on this.
The gauges are just the little triangle slider readouts in the Garmin G1000 MFD engine ECIAS center. Nothing spectacular, but... Some of them just barely move. Even with lots of 'umph' tweaking in the scaler coordinates, (which seems to backfire now and then).
My engine CHT and Oil Temps are standard for all reciprocating engines. Mooney, Extra, Cessna, etc.