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

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