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Fuel, what

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Hello...Ok, trying to fly from Majorca to London Gatwick, so I enter the followingLeft Tank > 8,629lbCentre Tank > 3,744lbRight Tank > 8,629lbTotal = 21,002Enough fuel to get me to Gatwick with some left to fly around with in case of delay. So I hit enter (on the

hi,I thought I was the only one having this problem! Yesterday I did some fuel planning loaded up the aircraft with fuel and same thing happened close to 3000 pounds were missing from the left tank causing a fuel inbalance notice on the engine display. There was no way to fix it as it kept resetting back to the same value. So I just equalized the amount of fuel in the right tanks to match the amount of fuel in the left tank and then loaded up the center tank with the fuel the right tank lost in an effort to have enough fuel to get to my destination... it worked but this is a very annoying problem.AndrewPS. I could change the amount of fuel in the right and center tanks but not in the left tank for some very odd reason.... I thought it was just a bug with my fs2002 installation or something.

What I have noticed, or at least what happened to me the other day is that when fuel was depleted from the center tank the right engine shut down!I had the left and right fuel pumps on. I've set the tank selector to 1 in the .cfg file because I've noticed that if I change that value to 3 as suggested the engines pick fuel from all 3 tanks at the same time. Instead with that value set to 1 it picks from center first, then left and right.But as I said when the center tank is empty my right engines shuts down.Anybody get this?Regards,Bjorn

Hey Bjorn,I have had this before. My aircraft was pushing back from the South Terminal at EGKK with the left & right tanks both full, but the centre takes empty.When I went to start my engines, the left one turned and started ok, but the right one would not turn, or start. I later found out that when I filled the centre fuel take, the right engine started up!I have done the same as you, entering 1 in the .cfg file. I have also notice that the fuel transfer switch does nothing at all.I think the fault must be with PDMG software, as I have used many aircraft (PSS, DM, Wilco (PIC)) and loads of freeware aircraft and never had this problem...I wish there is something we could do, while I don

Hi Kimberly,I'm pretty confident that they'll fix it with the patch. In the meantime I guess I'll get used to doing inflight re-starts when center tank goes empty, or simply leave the ignition switch on "flight"! :-))Ciao,Bjorn

>I have done the same as you, entering 1 in the .cfg file. I>have also notice that the fuel transfer switch does nothing at>all.Same thing over here with central tank. The valve does something. Open the valve and turn off the pump from the tank with less fuel. After a while you will see the decrease in the other fuel tank.Jos

Hi!In the fuel menu in fs2002, what's the correct setting for the "start flight with tank"? left? right? center? ALL??Thank'sjos

I've set my .cfg file to "3". This is the same situation that existed in that other developer's (A*****) -300 & -500. I have no problem loading an equal amount of fuel in both the left and right tank as long as I start fresh with a new situation every time I fly; i.e., I do not load up saved flights. If I try to load a saved 737NG flight, I can not load up the left engine -- just like all of you.With the .cfg file set at "3", however, the fuel pulls equally from the left and right tanks but very little from the center tank. I actually fell out of the sky on my 3rd flight because the left and right tanks had no fuel in them. The center tank was at around 60%. Go figure.:-waveSteve

I don't know if it's right, but I was able to start the engines tonight without switching the fuel pumps on for the left and right engine!Shouldn't they be on to be able to start the engines?Steve, that why I didn't set my .cfg to 3, because that way it won't pick fuel from the center tank.Regards,Bjorn

I saw the same thing today, what i did notice, that happen diffrently that mite cause this was even though I shut down the APU before take off I still had a reading on the APU EGT gauge. I tryed to shut it down a few times, but the reading was still on the gauge that the apu was running. And after that was that i notice the weird fuel feeds in cruse.

So...Any lead about the fuel selector question? ;)Jos

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