Tinmouse II Boeing 737-200 refuelling problem

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Tinmouse II Boeing 737-200 refuelling problem

Post by Quantum » Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:51 pm

Hi,

If you are using the Tinmouse II Boeing 737-200 to fly on FSA you may have a problem refuelling. One of CBFS pilots has identified this problem and found a workaround. The chaps developing the Tinmouse II very kindly offered the facility to use the panel with the FFX/Vistaliner B737-200 and provided alternative .air and .cfg files for that aircraft. However, to identify which model was being used so that the panel sends the correct spoiler animations etc for the appropriate model, they added a dummy fuel tank to the Tinmouse aircraft.cfg

In the aircraft.cfg for the tinmouse look for the [fuel] as below :-

[fuel]

//Longitudinal (feet), Lateral (feet), Vertical (feet), Usable(gallons), Unusable (gallons)

fuel_type = 2
number_of_tank_selectors = 1

Center1 = 6.25, 0, -0.2, 2303.7, 0 // 15433 lbs max
LeftMain = 1.5, -9.6, -0.2, 1428.15, 0 // 9567 lbs max
RightMain = 1.5, 9.6, -0.2, 1428.15, 0
RightTip = 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0 //DO NOT REMOVE presence of this tank used to identify Terry Gaff/Flight1 model
electric_pump=0


To make the fuel tank invisible to flight sim/FSA you need to rem out the line as below indicated in red.

[fuel]

//Longitudinal (feet), Lateral (feet), Vertical (feet), Usable(gallons), Unusable (gallons)

fuel_type = 2
number_of_tank_selectors = 1

Center1 = 6.25, 0, -0.2, 2303.7, 0 // 15433 lbs max
LeftMain = 1.5, -9.6, -0.2, 1428.15, 0 // 9567 lbs max
RightMain = 1.5, 9.6, -0.2, 1428.15, 0
//RightTip = 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0 //DO NOT REMOVE presence of this tank used to identify Terry Gaff/Flight1 model
electric_pump=0


Once you have added the two forward slashes, save the file and exit. It says not to remove the tank but remming tthe tank it does not appear to have any adverse affect on the visuals.

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Re: Tinmouse II Boeing 737-200 refuelling problem

Post by Independance » Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:52 am

If You go to avsim.net forum in section dedicated to TM2, there can be found much simpler explanation.

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Re: Tinmouse II Boeing 737-200 refuelling problem

Post by Quantum » Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:35 pm

Hi Tomasz,

And the explanation is? I have seen the Tinmouse forum and don't see anything specific to FSAirlines client? This fix above is for use in FSAirlines, if you have specific info then please point to the specific thread at Tinmouse support forum rather than a generalised comment.

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