Fuel Gauge not working...just for me :-(

[Brainfreeze]

Hi,

I noticed that my fuel level indicator panel is not working properly...the digital gauge showing the number of litre in the plane and total are working ok but the two vertical bars showing the same info visually are actually not working and always stay at 6k kg.  Is this a setting somewhere or a bug on my station?  Using latest beta and standard cockpit (removed all the cockpit mods)

 

Thks

[jojo]

I'm afraid you didn't understood how the fuel system works.

First, everything is in kg, not liters.

Secondly, the vertical bars are only for feeders and x100kg, not x1000kg.

As long as you have fuel in external tank, the feeders will stay full around 600kg.

And your total fuel will be more than the feeders as long as you have more than 1200kg...

[=36=Witcher]

22 ore fa, jojo ha scritto:

As long as you have fuel in external tank, the feeders will stay full around 600kg.

 

I think it's better to specify: external OR internal tanks. I know you know the difference, but it may be not obvious to anyone

[jojo]

6 minutes ago, =36=Witcher said:

 

I think it's better to specify: external OR internal tanks. I know you know the difference, but it may be not obvious to anyone

Actually, the engine burns fuel from the feeders.

Once the feeders drops to a certain amount, it's completed from the other tanks.

But this behavior isn't simulated in DCS.

 

IRL, with external tanks, level drops to 550kg then it's completed to 590kg and back and forth.

Once external tanks are empty, the level drops to 480kg, then completed to 520kg and back and forth.

 

Once below 2x480kg, it will continuously decrease.
At 2x250kg = 500kg, you will have the "NIVEAU" amber warning.

[myHelljumper]

Would be great to have that feature implemented sometime in the future when all the more important stuff is fixed 

[Brainfreeze]

On 12/8/2020 at 2:21 PM, jojo said:

I'm afraid you didn't understood how the fuel system works.

First, everything is in kg, not liters.

Secondly, the vertical bars are only for feeders and x100kg, not x1000kg.

As long as you have fuel in external tank, the feeders will stay full around 600kg.

And your total fuel will be more than the feeders as long as you have more than 1200kg...

Ok thks Jojo.   Understand now, the bars only kick in once below 1200kg

[jojo]

6 hours ago, myHelljumper said:

Would be great to have that feature implemented sometime in the future when all the more important stuff is fixed 

 

For the record, a ground crew explained this to me.

He added that the feeders bars going up and down is a way to check that fuel transfer works correctly.

 

For instance if you have 2500kg of remaining fuel, and the feeders only go down, you have a fuel transfer problem.

Edited December 9, 2020 by jojo

[=36=Witcher]

Il 9/12/2020 at 13:52, jojo ha scritto:

Actually, the engine burns fuel from the feeders.

Once the feeders drops to a certain amount, it's completed from the other tanks.

But this behavior isn't simulated in DCS.

 

IRL, with external tanks, level drops to 550kg then it's completed to 590kg and back and forth.

Once external tanks are empty, the level drops to 480kg, then completed to 520kg and back and forth.

 

Once below 2x480kg, it will continuously decrease.
At 2x250kg = 500kg, you will have the "NIVEAU" amber warning.

Yeah, but I was referring to the fact that the feeders will stay at 590kg until you have fuel in both external (the two under the wings and the centerline) AND internal tanks (right forward, right wing, left forward, left wing and center forward).