On Thursday 01 April 2004 04:54, Lee Elliott wrote: > Now we can set fuel levels in the tanks I want to use a single fdm for both > the 'clean' A-10 and the 'ferry' configuration with external tanks. > > De-selecting the external tanks on the model, depending on the --aircraft > param, is straight forward and I can zero the levels once FG has started > but setting the tank levels to zero in the 'set' file doesn't seem to work. > I guess this might be because the fdm is initialised after the stuff in > the 'set' file has been read and actioned, overriding the zeroing of the > levels. > > Is there any way around this? > > LeeE
Oops! - just noticed that the tanks have to be zeroed _before_ they're de-selected (selected=false) otherwise the weight isn't deducted from the total. The empty tanks have to be de-selected before the engines will run. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
