Author Topic: Fuel Management in AH2 (Read 307 times)

Hazard69 · « **on:** October 30, 2003, 07:13:19 AM »

Could we have some more options other than 25,50,75 and 100%.
I usually fly around in the P38 and every percentage up is another 102 gallons. Nice would be a fueling counter between 0% to 100%. Ideal would be 1 such counter for every tank on the aircraft.
Also could we have a way in which we can configure the auto-fuel management thing. I am tired of manually draining my outboard wing tanks before the droptanks.

Extremely ideal and realistic would be if we got rid of the autofuel management computer and gave us manual fuel control with inter-tank cross feed capability. (Perhaps an option of autofuel on/off)??

Midnight · « **Reply #1 on:** October 30, 2003, 07:57:35 AM »

I agree with the fuel percentages in tanks.

IMO, HTC should totally remove the automatic fuel management feature in the TOD part of AHII

Cross-tank feed would also be nice, but only in a/c that had that capability.

jodgi · « **Reply #2 on:** October 30, 2003, 09:21:36 AM »

I've seen a post on this before where someone said that HT had stated that it would be difficult to give us full control. No idea why it would be so hard.

I like the idea... we can always hope.

moot · « **Reply #3 on:** October 30, 2003, 09:44:09 AM »

The 51D already has the AUX in top priority for the automatic tank order, whereas other planes with just as auxiliary and CG spoiling AUX tanks don't.
So I ask HT if we'd maybe get a separate wing tanks or aux or whatever-option to fill each of them separately before taking off, and he answered that "it isn't as simple as you envision".

So it probably is.

But it'd be nice to be able to write our own .txt .cfg or whatever, to choose the timing and selection of the automatic tank switcher.

artik · « **Reply #4 on:** October 30, 2003, 03:18:33 PM »

And I'd like to see Fuel carpacity more then percantage - like in DT.
I want to know how much fuel I have in any tank and not to know this is half empty and second full. I want to know galons or liters in Tanks like in DT

Midnight · « **Reply #5 on:** October 30, 2003, 03:43:14 PM »

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Originally posted by artik
And I'd like to see Fuel carpacity more then percantage - like in DT.
I want to know how much fuel I have in any tank and not to know this is half empty and second full. I want to know galons or liters in Tanks like in DT

Technically, it's already there. If you know the capacity of the selected fuel tank, you can calculate how many galons/liters remain in it.

I know the problem is that most people don't know the capacity of the tank(s) in the plane(s) they fly... But I know what they are for the P-51, which is all I fly

BenDover · « **Reply #6 on:** October 30, 2003, 05:38:10 PM »

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Originally posted by artik
And I'd like to see Fuel carpacity more then percantage - like in DT.
I want to know how much fuel I have in any tank and not to know this is half empty and second full. I want to know galons or liters in Tanks like in DT

Hit backspace in flight while you have a DT to show the exact amount of galons that are in both tanks, as for internal tanks.....well they didn't have digital read outs back then.