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FSX Setting a simulation variable?

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I am trying to simulate the glow plugs in a diesel engine for a diesel aircraft I downloaded (actually a bus... ;)) and I use the oil temperature for deciding when to activate the glow plugs. Currently I am using a local variable that first is set to the oil temperature, then it is increased instead of the oil temperature. The problem is that I need a digital gauge to tell me the exact oil temperature, but it isn't working. Currently I have it set up to show the local variable if it is greater than the actual oil temperature, and the oil temperature if it is greater than the local variable. It doesn't work well at all. I saw in the "Simulation Variables" document that GENERAL ENG OIL TEMPERATURE:index is settable, but it doesn't seem to actually be settable. I tried using (>A:General eng oil temperature:1,farenheit) to set it, but it just stays the same. Can somebody help resolve this?
 
"Setable" XML A:vars are only possible via a SimConnect module.

The are otherwise "read only" token variables.
 
So there isn't actually a way to set the oil temperature? Maybe someone can help me with what I'm trying to do.
 
I don't think the oil temperature A var is actually settable, even via SimConnect. I suspect it only applies to being settable over a shared cockpit (two player) set-up.

However, what you initial described, using an L var, should be ok. I suspectit's just your implementation that is bugged.

Si
 
The "settable" A:vars are only possible via SimConnect. The typical use for them would be for an instructor station module.

They have nothing whatever to to with the "shared cockpit" except indirectly. It's because these are "settable" that the client sim's values may be updated by the host sim's output...

...which -not surprisingly- occurs because of the SimConnect module that's used to enable multi-player to begin with... :D
 
...and just for the sake of completeness:
A:GENERAL ENG OIL TEMPERATURE:index is marked "settable" in the SDK ;)
 
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