David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Andy Ross writes: > > > The effect is happening because the aircraft isn't consuming fuel. If > > you take off at full tanks, you never get any lighter. A real > > aircraft would have burned off a big chunk of its fuel store in the > > climb, and would have an easier time of it. As a workaround, try > > starting /sim/fuelfraction at 0.5 or so, to simulate an > > early-to-mid-flight cruise condition. It should climb much better. > > Fuel consumption in YASim will get done RSN, I promise. > > That's a good point. I remember reading an article where the author > sat in an A340 cockpit on a London-Vancouver flight; it wasn't until > around Greenland that the plane had burned enough fuel that it could > climb to full cruising altitude. >
Yes agreed. And probably with a 747-400 it is only those longer flights like London-Vancouver that get filled to the brim with fuel. Andy, is the aircraft otherwise considered filled to capacity (passenger/cargo) in the fdm? Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
