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Increasing fuel capacity in aircraft

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Hi,

 

I am currently flying a round-the-world tour using a B1900D in FS9. I have a long over-water leg coming up and there is no way I can make it using the existing fuel capacity. So I would like to simulate the installation of a ferry fuel tank by temporarily increasing the aircraft's fuel capacity to enable me to fly the leg. Does anyone know how I can do this? I have calculated estimated fuel consumption for all my legs so far and would like to avoid using the "unlimited fuel" option if at all possible.

 

Thanks

Simple way: increase the capacity of the tanks in the aircraft.cfg.

SDK:

 

[fuel]

...

LeftMain =

long: -3.85 (feet),

lat: -2.10,

vert: 2.50,

usable: 46.0 (gallons), increase this number with what you need.

unusable: 0.00

etc

...

 

Realistic way:

Install new tanks, like:

 

Center1

Center2

Center3

LeftMain

LeftAux

LeftTip

RightMain

RightAux

RightTip

External1

External2

 

Add fuelselectors and a good fuel panel.

You 'll need some xml skill to program that.

Jan

 

 

 

"Beatus ille qui procul negotiis..."

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Thanks! I have managed to add an additional fuel tank. I realised that FS only recognises the defined tank names you mentioned above so it was pretty simple to edit the aircraft.cfg file in the end. A bit of tinkering with the positioning so the C of G was correct and away we go.

 

Many thanks.

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