Functional AIR SOURCE, ENG FEED knobs and FLCS option on MFD screen

[Dača]

Hello ED team.

I hope you can spare couple of minutes just to address this topic.

Is it possible or planned to have functional air source and engine feed knobs so that we can actually damage aircraft when we forget about it ?

Also will FLCS screen receive actual error codes if we do something bad or forget about important procedures during start up?

And we could also mention function IFF codes page

Can we hope this will be implemented in the future?

Edited Friday at 09:20 AM by Dača
Incomplete question.

[Dača]

Any chance we can expect features mentioned above in the future?

Even no is a valid answer.

Edit with additional info:

-Engine feed knob, when turned to off, will turn off fueling pumps and with that switch it to gravity feed. Which means that on the ground and in rest of flight operations, engine will not be affected. Except, when plane is exposed to negative G force for longer then couple of seconds or positive G, but flying inverted. Then fuel rise up and cannot be used to feed engine with gravity feed as there is no gravity. Engine will shut down and come back to life as soon as plane returns to positive G or inverted position is leveled off or engine feed knob turned to NORM.

-Air Source knob is actually used to direct engine's air bleeding. What does it do ? "It controls bleed air from the engine for cabin pressurization, anti-G, canopy seal, fuel tank pressurization, and air conditioning as well as the cabin pressurization dump valve.

OFF - engine bleed air valve is closed. Deactivates all the systems listed above.

NORM - engine bleed air valve is open and providing pressurized air for cabin pressure and air conditioning.

DUMP - cabin air dump valve is open. Bleed air functions to ventilate cabin and can provide a slight pressure boost above 8000 feet MSL.

RAM - engine bleed air valve is closed and cabin dump valve open. Cabin is ventilated by ram air through an exterior scoop.

This is not closing or shutting off air supply to the engine, but rather the cockpit and other systems that rely on bleed air from the engine to operate. Bleeder valves are often left open during start up, as this presents less resistance from the compressors, when the JFS crank the engine, and allows the engine to build up core speed much more quickly during startup. Apparently, the F-16 is started up with those systems in operation".

I also managed to dig up that some electronics, most notably FCR, is cooled by this. So the best way to simulate AIR SOURCE knob to OFF would be to simulate FCR burndown after longer use with air source turned to off and "elec sys" error should be then displayed.

Air source and engine feed do play crucial rule during start up and would be shame not to have this simulated.

Edited Friday at 09:19 AM by Dača