Fuel consumption
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Fuel consumption
Is there a way to simulate an aircraft running out of fuel, somehow overiding a pilot putting the fuel on "unlimited" in the options menu? The same way we have aircraft failures if the fleet is not repaired. Just a thought, might be a definite way of determining actual airline values.
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There probably is, but right now, its an honesty thing. I know a few people dont fuel up their planes the right way, but its ony hurting them, no one else.
i think in the future, when you can change your fuel load (ie if you made a mistake) it would be fine to have the VA's CEO have a toggle for flights to allow for fuel loss=engine out. (Sort of like right now how they can enforec 1x 2x 4x 8x 16x time compression)
But yeah, good idea.
i think in the future, when you can change your fuel load (ie if you made a mistake) it would be fine to have the VA's CEO have a toggle for flights to allow for fuel loss=engine out. (Sort of like right now how they can enforec 1x 2x 4x 8x 16x time compression)
But yeah, good idea.
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I agree a stiff penalty should be enforced, but the stiffer the restrictions get, theres seems to be quite a bit of opposition to more regulations here. But yes, 10% or more deduction is great. Landing an A340 after youve run out of fuel at FL360 is a huge challenge, and you'll most likely never land at your destination airport,even if you do get it to a runway. Isnt the deduction for landing at the wrong airport a big hit? If so, this fuel restriction should definitely be given a good review, being as its pretty much worse than just landing at the wrong airport.
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I wasn't aware you could hit unlimited right now anyway. After I start up FlyNet, it resets a lot of my non-FlyNet settings and automatically sets my fuel state. I haven't tried starting with "Unlimited Fuel" checked, but after FlyNet is on, it locks me out of the "Aircraft" menu completely, so I can't change any settings anyway.
My friend Lester, it seems you give ideas to people.
CAP, you are right you cannot change it after starting the Client but you could have done it before. The FS settings would be kept as defined by the user in that case. For sure you are one of those honest people in FlyNet who would not do this (glad to talk to such people) but there are some who have done so. A scan in the PIREPS would show this. I have personally scanned such PIREPS. However we cannot blame anyone for doing so intentionally. Some people prefer to fly with an "easy" set of aircraft's realism, they did not thought to change it as it is the default after you install FS or they even don't know how to change the realism settings. But yes, it can be done (unfortunately).
Do you want to know how you can tell from a PIREP that the unlimited fuel was on and used in the flight?
CAP, you are right you cannot change it after starting the Client but you could have done it before. The FS settings would be kept as defined by the user in that case. For sure you are one of those honest people in FlyNet who would not do this (glad to talk to such people) but there are some who have done so. A scan in the PIREPS would show this. I have personally scanned such PIREPS. However we cannot blame anyone for doing so intentionally. Some people prefer to fly with an "easy" set of aircraft's realism, they did not thought to change it as it is the default after you install FS or they even don't know how to change the realism settings. But yes, it can be done (unfortunately).
Do you want to know how you can tell from a PIREP that the unlimited fuel was on and used in the flight?
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