Does anyone know how to adjust this. (See photo) No matter how much fuel you add or when you add it, the "FUEL ONBOARD" always starts at 60.x gallons.......Even though the actual onboard fuel was 220 gal.

 

I asked Carenado and they blew me off..... The other Carenado G1000 aircraft have a fuel tab in the MFD where you can select you start fuel. It even says this in the manual (even though its the SR22 manual that they are trying to pass off as the TBM)

 

It is driving me nuts because I use these stats in flight planning for fuel mgmt.

Here is the code:

((L:G1000_ManualFuelRemain, gallons) (L:G1000_FuelUsedRef, gallons) (A:FUEL TOTAL QUANTITY, gallons) - -)


Have not looked into what each of these mean, but maybe you can discern if this looks right, or not.

Would be easy to change, if I knew what you would like to see here..

Maybe start with Fuel total quantity only...

Edit the G1000_MFDTBMVC.xml file and see what happens.

Try:  ((A:FUEL TOTAL QUANTITY, gallons))

I actual fuel in each tank is 110Gal. so 220 Gal total fuel onboard. However, by default, the G1000 will always thinks there are only 60.1 gallons onboard.(For me at least)  The G1000 uses this number to base its other stats like endurance, efficiency etc. This is only in the " Trip Planning" Page.

 

I would like if the G1000 could automatically use the actual fuel onboard by default.

 

The fuel tab on the "SYSTEM" pop up page reads the correct values, its just the "FUEL PLANNING" page that is wrong.

 

 

I tried to follow my hunch, and yes, you have to make that edit in the code.

They used the same logic for "Fuel Onboard" and "Rem Fuel"

Open the G1000_MFDTBMVC.xml file with Notepad, and search for "Fuel Onboard"

Then change to:

<Element id="Fuel Onboard">
              <FloatPosition>265.000,220.000</FloatPosition>
              <GaugeText id="GaugeText">
                <Bright>true</Bright>
                <FontFace>glass gauge</FontFace>
                <FontHeightScript>20</FontHeightScript>
                <GaugeString>FUEL ONBOARD\t\{fnt1}\{clr2}%((L:G1000_FuelUnits, enum))
		%{case}
			%{:0}%((A:FUEL TOTAL QUANTITY, gallons))%!4.1f!\{fnt0}GL
			%{:1}%((A:FUEL TOTAL QUANTITY, gallons) 6 * )%!4.1f!\{fnt0}LB
			%{:2}%((A:FUEL TOTAL QUANTITY, liters))%!4.1f!\{fnt0}LT
		%{end}</GaugeString>

Good find Bert.....but she is gonna keep fighting us....  apparently the "REM FUEL" in the "FUEL STATS" box under the "FUEL ONBOARD" is the value that is used to base the stat figures on....see screenie.... FUEL ONBOARD is fixed thanks to your find.

 

Can we apply the same edit to the "REM FUEL" in the "FUEL STATS" section of the MFDVC file?

 

Thanks again.....

We can change any of these values.. but I have no idea what they are supposed to be.

 

I kind of assumed that Rem Fuel is what you expect to be left over at the end of the flight.. 

 

If you know what each of these values are supposed to be, I can help you code them.. maybe

we should take this offline.  Send me an email with what you expect each of these lines to

represent..

Will do Bert Thanks....

This has all been touched up.. see Flight Planning post

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/412817-flight-planning-page-on-the-mfd/