enigma6584 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Testing one of my mission last night. Noticed when I was starting up the Ka-50 that when I went to turn fuel meter power on, it was already on. Cannot turn it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaD CrC Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Yeah. This behavior was introduced in one of the 1.2.x version some time ago. It generated a lot of complains but ED finaly replied that having this gauge on all the time was how it is supposed to work irl. Then, the last one or two patches for 1.2 brought back the "always on" fuel meter. I think it is still the cas for 2.0. I don't really like it since I love to see the two needles coming to life when I flip the fuel meter button. But if it is so irl, who am i to say so. I don't get then the reason for a fuel meter switch then. https://www.blacksharkden.com http://discord.gg/blacksharkden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsobbe Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Yeah. This behavior was introduced in one of the 1.2.x version some time ago. It generated a lot of complains but ED finaly replied that having this gauge on all the time was how it is supposed to work irl. In the very few installations that I found IRL general aviation aircraft, a fuel meter switch provided a quick off-on check that the gauges had power or weren't stuck. But it wasn't commonly used in normal flight operations and generally left in the on position; perhaps because aircraft fuel meters (gauges) are historically unreliable. The only reliable fuel meter has always been a clock and knowledge of a particular a/c's fuel burn per hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 As welk as the knowledge of how full your tanks are at take-off :) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Commodore 64 | MOS6510 | VIC-II | SID6581 | DD 1541 | KCS Power Cartridge | 64Kb | 32Kb external | Arcade Turbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flagrum Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 fwiw... Could be that it is normal, and fixed allready !! The fuel gauges are AC instruments, and freeze in position when ac power is removed. DC instruments behave differently and mostly fall back to zero when dc power is removed. Rule of thumb for this is "AC lies, DC dies" With the real F16, the fuel quantity indicator, behaves exactly as current version of Black Shark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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