does E6B...

[porkfrog]

model fuel leaks when calculating your time remaining?

if it says i have 9 mins and im leaking fuel from left main, do i in fact have 9 mins?



<> in advance!

[Mark Luper]

Originally posted by porkfrog
model fuel leaks when calculating your time remaining?

if it says i have 9 mins and im leaking fuel from left main, do i in fact have 9 mins?



<> in advance!

That would depend on the size of the leak. I believe the E6B gives you time remaining dependent on fuel on board and how much the engine is using. If you have a leak I would expect it to be constantly recomputing the time left until you ran out of gas or landed. It would be similar to the engine using that amount of extra fuel.

I don't know this for fact, but it "seems" to work this way for me.

Mark

[Flatbar]

Wasn't the real E6B just a manual calculator that used initial fuel weight, speed, rpm, MP and alt to determine fuel consumption and range?

How did they compute drag from hardpoint stores?

If so then it's calculations could not include fuel lost due to damage and it's effects on range since the fuel amount and weight of it would be estimated on the ground and that amount wiould be input as one of the variables for the calculation.

I have absolutly no idea of how a real E6B may work but this seems a logical way to estimate fuel consumption and range during that period in time.

Would HT bother to add coding that would give the E6B the ability to monitor the fuel weight in real time and include that variable in it's calculations even though it isn't historicaly correct?

IMO. no, but that is my own very uninformed opinion.

[bj229r]

It shows how long gas will last for what's in there at THAT moment--ya will notice time remaining drops heap faster than normal

[kilz]

i have never seen it change for fuel leak mine just says 7 minutes then spiny thing stops eeeeeekkkkkkkk

[Airscrew]

If you get hit in a tank that is already empty then you will not lose fuel, even though you can see the fuel vapor trail and check EB6 you are not loosing fuel.   If you get hit in a tank that still has fuel in it you will see your time remaining drop significantly faster