1 hour ago, Grahm said:

My oil quantity in the #2 engine is always lower than the #1 engine. Even topping it off and after a 4 hour flight #2 is lower by 2%. After substantial flying 50 to a 100 hrs the engine oil in the # 2 burns so much more oil then #1 and requires a fill up below 76%. I cycle between 1 and 2 at engine start. Anyone else experience this type of consistency?

 

Mike Warren 

It would be very unusual for both engines to burn exactly the same amount of fuel and consume the same amount of oil. This is normal.  I don't like using the maintenance option because it resets a run time counter and I've got service based failures turned on waiting for the unexpected.  The alternative is to simply save the panel, give it a name you'll remember such as _ENR 738 for enroute 737-800. Name doesn't matter except now you want to find that panel file in the \PMDG\PMDG 737 NGX\PanelState folder. Now a simple edit of the panel file resets the oil and hydraulic levels (this is a "crib" that I keep in that folder for copy and paste):

[Engines]
EngineState.0=0
OilQ.0=1999
OffTime.0=2
EGT.0=335
EngineState.1=0
OilQ.1=1999
OffTime.1=2
EGT.1=336

//100% oil quantity = 1999


[HydraulicSystem.0]
Eng Pump Switch A=1
Eng Pump Switch B=1
Elec Pump Switch A=0
Elec Pump Switch B=0
Hyd System Pressure A=51.708375
Hyd System Pressure B=38.663383
Hyd System A Flow Rate=5.700000
Hyd System B Flow Rate=5.700000
Hyd Qty Pct A=100
Hyd Qty Pct B=100
Hyd Qty A=5.7
Hyd Qty B=8.2

//100% hydra quantity A=5.70 B=8.20

//Fuel Temp=9983 : -18C
//Fuel Temp=10000 : 5C
//Fuel Temp=10010 : 14C
// T = 0.8438n - 8432.5
Fuel Temp=10011
//Center Wing Tank FRMN=100.000000 : 100 lbs

One you have updated the values in the panel state file, go back to the aircraft and load the same panel state that you saved and edited. Only takes a minute once you've got the steps figured out.

 

Hi Mike,

Welcome to real worlds...where engines indications, fuel and oil consumption is never symmetrical...

Ciao

Andrea Buono