fixed fuel remaining indicator setup after refuelling

[Riesling]

Hi,

Once we refuel the airplane, or add external tanks (bidons), we have to calculate the amount of remaining fuel of the aircraft. 

The hard part is to reset the fuel remaining indicator located in fuel controls main panel. 
It's only possible to increment by 1kg the fuel quantity.  It's really painful to setup if you have to add 5000 kg of fuel. (in case of airborne refuel for example, once it will be released) 

Is it possible to improve the reset thumbwhell, by adding thousands units ? (by pressing and turning the knob for example, or using internal / external ring to select digits) or use a tweak reset function that calculates and set automatically this indicator ? 

 

Thanks

 

[bones1014]

2 hours ago, Riesling said:

Hi,

Once we refuel the airplane, or add external tanks (bidons), we have to calculate the amount of remaining fuel of the aircraft. 

The hard part is to reset the fuel remaining indicator located in fuel controls main panel. 
It's only possible to increment by 1kg the fuel quantity.  It's really painful to setup if you have to add 5000 kg of fuel. (in case of airborne refuel for example, once it will be released) 

Is it possible to improve the reset thumbwhell, by adding thousands units ? (by pressing and turning the knob for example, or using internal / external ring to select digits) or use a tweak reset function that calculates and set automatically this indicator ? 

 

Thanks

 

I posted similarly in the controls/bugs section. Right now there's no good way to reset the total fuel quantity. Auto calculate should be implemented if we can only adjust the number by single digits.

[ZXMaster]

On 7/24/2022 at 3:34 PM, Riesling said:

Hi,

Once we refuel the airplane, or add external tanks (bidons), we have to calculate the amount of remaining fuel of the aircraft. 

The hard part is to reset the fuel remaining indicator located in fuel controls main panel. 
It's only possible to increment by 1kg the fuel quantity.  It's really painful to setup if you have to add 5000 kg of fuel. (in case of airborne refuel for example, once it will be released) 

Is it possible to improve the reset thumbwhell, by adding thousands units ? (by pressing and turning the knob for example, or using internal / external ring to select digits) or use a tweak reset function that calculates and set automatically this indicator ? 

 

Thanks

 

I have found that if you click and hold on the rotary dial and drag your mouse upwards it makes the process substantially faster.

[Rongor]

Razbam found an efficient way to do it in their Mirage: giving the increase direction much higher speed than the decrease direction...

Edited July 27, 2022 by Rongor

[Flappie]

In today's OB, Aerges added a Special option allowing the fuel gauge to be set automatically after refuel.