J-41 Fueling Issue

[CrewF16 26]

When I go into the FSX Aircraft fuel and payload manager to reduce the fuel for flight it always goes back to 100% when I get back in the A/C. I tried many times to be sure things were correct. It will stay at the selected load for a second then go to full tanks. The last time I selected 0 in both tanks and it stayed long enough to kill the engines then went to full tanks.

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Ron

[mosteen 111]

Almost sounds like you 1. did not run FSX as administrator, or 2. have installed FSX in ...Programs (x86), thus having problems with permissions?

[scandinavian13 5,192]

 

 

It will stay at the selected load for a second then go to full tanks. The last time I selected 0 in both tanks and it stayed long enough to kill the engines then went to full tanks.

 

Is your parking position next to a fuel station?

(No joke - pan around your aircraft for a default FSX fuel station)

[hopskip 253]

Is there some way to get rid of the FSX fuel stations everywhere and forever? When you are parked on one, or even near one, you get 2 problems.

 

1: The fuel always goes back to 100% (even on a 747-400 just as you are about to depart on a 20 minute jaunt from YMML to YMAV)

2: You can't open the aircraft's DOORS!!!!!!

[Airbusman330 300]

 

 

2: You can't open the aircraft's DOORS!!!!!!

 

I'm able to open the L-39's canopy at a fuel station (the only thing I like about them is I can splash and dash during a a multi leg L-39 trip).

[CrewF16 26]

Is your parking position next to a fuel station?

(No joke - pan around your aircraft for a default FSX fuel station)

 

That was it! I was at Unakleet in Alaska and that was my only option other than the active. After a couple of other mess ups with the NGX (miss stroke on the keyboard and went to flight planner. Graphics crashed) I quit for the day. I figured it wasn't my day to fly. 

 

Thanks,

Ron

[scandinavian13 5,192]

 

 

That was it! I was at Unakleet in Alaska and that was my only option other than the active.

 

Glad that worked!  Yeah, there are a couple fields where you really don't have much room to avoid those things.  I'm sure there are several in AK.

[Paul Curtis 23]

"When you are parked on one, or even near one, you get 2 problems".

 

If you set up your take-off weight in fmc and go past fuel station without this knowledge your V speeds are out danderously!...Just a thought :wacko: