Flight sim fuel flow

[dicksonlee]

Hi,

I have a problem with fuel flow display on lower eicas ( I am using promagenta glass cockpit and MSFS2004 B744). I try to monitor the fuel flow value but sometimes my lower eicas shows the fuel flow value and sometimes don't.
Can anyone help me out for this problem?

And does anyone know what offset to use to control the fuel flow? I have tried several from Peter Dowson FSUIPC offset list, but the fuel flow seem doesn't affected by the offsets that I used.

Thank you

Regards
****sonlee

[Peter Dowson]

And does anyone know what offset to use to control the fuel flow? I have tried several from Peter Dowson FSUIPC offset list, but the fuel flow seem doesn't affected by the offsets that I used.

The throttles (thrust levers) control fuel flow. Nothing else that I know of -- unless you want to cut off fuel altogether, in which case there's the fuel switches (selectors for different tanks) and of course the idle/cutoff switch used to shut down the engine entirely.

Regards

Pete

[dicksonlee]

The throttles (thrust levers) control fuel flow. Nothing else that I know of -- unless you want to cut off fuel altogether, in which case there's the fuel switches (selectors for different tanks) and of course the idle/cutoff switch used to shut down the engine entirely.

Regards

Pete

Hi Pete,

So you mean these offsets such as,

08A0

2

Engine 1 Fuel Flow PPH SSL

0918

8

Engine 1 Fuel Flow Pounds per Hour, as floating point double (FLOAT64)

cannot be used to control fuel flow display on EICAS screen directly by writing logic in the pmSystem?
For instance, we write "E1FF = 16384" in pmLogic // 08A0 2 E1FF has been defined in sysvar
And you mean the fuel flow can only be controlled through the use of throttle instead of writing certain value directly to the offset as describe above?

Thanks

Regards

****sonlee

[Peter Dowson]

So you mean these offsets such as,

08A0

2

Engine 1 Fuel Flow PPH SSL

0918

8

Engine 1 Fuel Flow Pounds per Hour, as floating point double (FLOAT64)

cannot be used to control fuel flow display on EICAS screen directly by writing logic in the pmSystem?

Of course not. They are the RESULTS of the engine burning fuel according to the thrust lever settings. How do you think the simulation system should deal with some change to fuel flow output values -- reduce the throttle levers? Were you expecting some reversal of cause-and-effect?

And you mean the fuel flow can only be controlled through the use of throttle instead of writing certain value directly to the offset as describe above?

Precisely. Doesn't that seem quite logical and normal to you? How would you control fuel flow in an aircraft, otherwise?

Regards

Pete

[Bob Reed]

Why would you want to write to the FF other then moving the throttle? Maybe if you tell us what you are trying to do we can give you an idea how to do it.

[JBaymore]

Sounds like to configure for a different aircraft?

best,

...............john

[Bob Reed]

Sounds like to configure for a different aircraft?

best,

...............john

Hi John! Again this does not make sense. The FF is read from Flight Sim which gets it's data from the aircraft cfg file. Change aircraft and the FF changes which is shown in PM. PM only reads what FS is reporting. So if there is something different you want to show, change the aircraft cfg file. Am I missing something here? Just trying to help!

[JBaymore]

Hi John! Again this does not make sense. The FF is read from Flight Sim which gets it's data from the aircraft cfg file. Change aircraft and the FF changes which is shown in PM. PM only reads what FS is reporting. So if there is something different you want to show, change the aircraft cfg file. Am I missing something here? Just trying to help!

Bob,

I don;t use PM....so I am guessing here.

But for example, you have the PM setup for the 737. While it reads the values from the FS output...... does it not set stuff like "red line" on gauges to the specs for the 737? So if the red line for aircraft X is different...... the PM stuff does not reflect that?

Otherwise I can't see any reason to do this either. Even in that situation it is a stretch.

best,

.................john

[Trevor Hale]

If you want to change the fuel flow of the aircraft, Change the fuel flow scalar in the aircraft.cfg file that should accomplish your task.

Trev

[Tomlin]

Ah, Trevor, I think that may be what the original poster is attempting? Maybe not though.

Speaking of 'red lines'. I have already attempted to have PM give us thrust trend indicators for the PMRJ software and Enrico said he'd look into it.

Regarding redlining though, is there a way to go into the ini file and put in info based off the real aircraft that will show red lines in PMRJ if limits are exceeded? I have the rw data per the Bombardier books.

Thanks-and hopefully we can determine how to help ****sonlee.