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Hello all. I am new to the forums but i have been simming for a while. I have a problem that is driving me crazy. I have been trying to adjust the fuel flow of my Alphasim UH-60 and CH-46 to more realistic levels. I have adjusted everything. I have tried fuel_flow_scalar, fuel_flow_gain, PowerSpecificFuelConsumtion, ratetd_shaft_hp, etc... all to no effect. I have modified the air files, copied the config information from the the Acceleration Default EH-101, but nothing is changing. Is there something about fs9 aircraft that cause them to not work properly in FSX? I would pull out my hair if I had any. I have searched the forums, google, and every other place I could think of. Its been pretty much two years of off and on experimenting and I finally figured I would ask directly. Is this something that cannot be fixed? Is anyone else having issues with this? It seems like I spend more time tweaking now than flying. I'm about ready to give up. Losing my mind

Hello I am trying to read the engine data out of the PMDG 737 NGX aircraft via SimConnect. The application is running, I am reading the data using the following variables: simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG N1:1", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG N2:1", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG CORRECTED FF:1", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG MAX TORQUE PERCENT:1", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG PRESSURE RATIO:1", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG JET THRUST:1", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG FUEL FLOW PPH:1", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG N1:2", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG N2:2", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG CORRECTED FF:2", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG MAX TORQUE PERCENT:2", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG PRESSURE RATIO:2", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG JET THRUST:2", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); simConnect.AddToDataDefinition(DEFINITIONS.EngineData, "TURB ENG FUEL FLOW PPH:2", "Percent", SIMCONNECT_DATATYPE.FLOAT64, 0.0f, SimConnect.SIMCONNECT_UNUSED); Actually I am particularly interested in the fuel flow data. the figures I get from these variables do not match the fuel flow figure displayed on the PMDG engine display. Also the figure for TURB ENG CORRECTED FF:1 and TURB ENG CORRECTED FF:2 are much larger than the values read from TURB ENG FUEL FLOW PPH:1 and TURB ENG FUEL FLOW PPH:2 (e.g. FF PPH = 12.95, FF corrected = 218.92). The FF displayed on the engine display is 0.69, the value I get from the simvar is 12.72. I tried to find out if there is a kind of factor or function which relates these values, but did not succeed so far. I also already searched in the offset lists and PMDG SDK files, but there are no offsets or variables available. Does anybody know of some coefficient, function or something else I can use to get the values displayed in the 737 engine display? Thanks a lot Peter