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Title: Too Many Gallons of Fuel Lost When I Release Drop Tanks
Post by: MRPLUTO on January 24, 2005, 12:47:00 PM

Take up a plane with drop tanks and open the E6B.  Note how many gallons of fuel you have in the drop tanks and how many total the E6B says you have.  Drop the tanks and you will notice that your total fuel has decreased by TWICE as much as it should have.

Or am I just really, really bad at math? :confused:

MRPLUTO

Title: Too Many Gallons of Fuel Lost When I Release Drop Tanks
Post by: 214thCavalier on January 24, 2005, 06:21:39 PM

Plane specific Pluto ?

Btw Swoop says you failed Maths anyway :)

Title: Too Many Gallons of Fuel Lost When I Release Drop Tanks
Post by: RSLQK186 on January 24, 2005, 07:39:47 PM

If the plane in question uses the metric system than I've seen it posted by Soda about a month ago. It was also stated that fuel burns twice as fast when on external.

Title: Too Many Gallons of Fuel Lost When I Release Drop Tanks
Post by: MRPLUTO on January 24, 2005, 09:55:09 PM

It doesn't seem to be plane specific.  Every plane I've looked at so far has done it, on and off-line, with the fuel mult set at 2.0 and 1.0.

Also, it did'nt seem to matter metric or the old-fashioned way.

Swoop is in error.  I did not fail "maths" as you call math in the UK.  I did come close a few times, however.

MRPLUTO

Title: Too Many Gallons of Fuel Lost When I Release Drop Tanks
Post by: Schutt on January 25, 2005, 03:00:21 AM

The E6B shows the fuel for drop tanks doubled on planes with liter drop tanks. On the other side, it also shows doubled fuel burn when fuel is fired from the droptanks. Pretty annoying, but sodas/my complains didnt change it it seems.

Maybe it is on some planes with gallon drop tanks too... have to check.

cu schutt

Title: fuel bug
Post by: flaps737 on January 25, 2005, 10:22:04 AM

yes, this happens on P38, e6b shows 2x actual fuel in drop tanks, and endurance is inflated yet the time remaining goes down by a minute every 30 seconds, because the "fuel" is burning 2x as fast from the drop tanks.  At first I thought the p38 had been fixed to where it could carry 300 gallon tanks, but apparently it's a bug.

Title: Too Many Gallons of Fuel Lost When I Release Drop Tanks
Post by: MRPLUTO on January 25, 2005, 05:44:16 PM

Well, it's too bad there's a bug.  On the other hand, I'm glad it's not the fault of my "maths" ability.  Whew.

MRPLUTO