April 29, 20215 yr I guess I am too used to MSFS 2020 which I have left behind because of too many bugs. I was flying the Zibo 737-800 and ran out of fuel mid flight! It seems you can go to the flight menu and refuel during a flight but I can’t find a way to make it unlimited. No big deal if you can’t. I was just curious.
April 30, 20215 yr The Zibo has an .acf file that is protected, you can not change properties in planemaker. On an unprotected aircraft you can fire up planemaker.exe (it is in the standard root folder of X-Plane) and then change fuel consumption properties. However, this would also change the fuel flow that is indicated in the cockpit. To my knowledge it is not possible to simply set the fuel to being "limitless". This would need to be done with a plugin, a simple script that refills the tank to the desired amount every flight cycle (many times per second). Cheers, Jan
April 30, 20215 yr Author 8 hours ago, Janov said: The Zibo has an .acf file that is protected, you can not change properties in planemaker. On an unprotected aircraft you can fire up planemaker.exe (it is in the standard root folder of X-Plane) and then change fuel consumption properties. However, this would also change the fuel flow that is indicated in the cockpit. To my knowledge it is not possible to simply set the fuel to being "limitless". This would need to be done with a plugin, a simple script that refills the tank to the desired amount every flight cycle (many times per second). Cheers, Jan I refueled in flight using the standard X-Plane fuel dialog which I know you are not supposed to do with the Zibo 737. Is there a way to easily refuel in flight using the Zibo EFB?
April 30, 20215 yr Some pointers. 1. Airliners, even air force one do not support mid air refuelling 2. see point one 3. Did I mention, most planes do not support mid air refueling. 4. If mid air refueling is something you find attractive, fighters like the freeware Typhoon, F35, SU57 do all support mid air refuelling, and aiui, if you spawn the C130 AI plane it will drop you a refuelling nozzle. 5. mid air refuelling is very dangerous, both in real life, and also in terms of triggering funky xplane bugs (so much so that after the 5th of 6th PM about bugs that were eventually traced back to doing exactly what you describe here, I "fixed" them in the 744 by flat out preventing fuel quantity increasing while the plane is in the air). 6. If points 1 to 5 didn't convince you this is a bad idea, you can make a simple Lua script that will top up the fuel for you (prerequisite: learn Lua), either with FlywithLua, or putting an xlua/xtlua plugin folder+the script in pretty much any aircraft, including the zibo. 7. Just no, load up on fuel correctly before you take off, and properly manage the tanks according to the fcom while you fly. Edited April 30, 20215 yr by mSparks AutoATC Developer
April 30, 20215 yr 57 minutes ago, mSparks said: 1. Airliners, even air force one do not support mid air refuelling Au contraire...if you look at the nose of a USAF VC-25A (aka Air Force One when the president is aboard), there's a prominent bump just forward of the pilots' windows. That's a UARRSI (universal air refueling receptacle slipway installation) for air refueling receiver operations. Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
April 30, 20215 yr 42 minutes ago, w6kd said: Au contraire...if you look at the nose of a USAF VC-25A (aka Air Force One when the president is aboard), there's a prominent bump just forward of the pilots' windows. That's a UARRSI (universal air refueling receptacle slipway installation) for air refueling receiver operations. Shhhhh, national secrets. AutoATC Developer
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