Blackbird Sims / Milviz Forum Archive

Hi guys

Just something tickling my mind based on another issue that bentwing pointed out...Do me a favor and monitor the individual fuel tanks from the FSX fuel menu. Not the ACM. The FSX Fuel menu. Let me know if the engine dies when a particular tank empties. I suspect a possible bug in the fuel transfer system.

The reason i ask is this. Flameouts only occur under the following conditions:

0/Negative G for more than 11 seconds
Engine screens down(switch in the forward position) and in icing conditions (less than 5 deg C and in cloud/very low visibility).

These continued reports dont seem to match up all the time with the code.

Thanks
JB

Feeds only from the left tank which quickly empties and I flame out

If I jettison the outboard tanks while drawing fuel from them before they are empty, I get a flameout. (Corollary is, unless they are empty, I can't seem to get rid of them without a flameout.) Once they are empty and I'm drawing on the main cell, I can jettison them with no problem. Not identified in your original post. Is this expected behavior?

probably as you are still drawing fuel from them. the system doesn't, afaik, allow for immediate transfer over...

Actually it should....Ill look at this for the next SP.