Airboss001

Hi Pete, I was thinking that might be the case, and it is not anything at all critical. I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something. Thanks for all you do!

Hi, I just wanted to make sure that I am not doing anything incorrectly when I am pulling fuel capacities. I am noticing that if an aircraft is configured with a tank capacity that has a fraction for example: FSX default 172 has 26.5 in each main that FSX displays 26.5 in the fuel menu, but when I pull the data in FSUIPC I only get the integer value (26) and the decimal is dropped (.5) (I see that in FS-Interrogate as well) Is the fraction not available? I am trying to match up fuel tanks to the models over at FSEconomy and currently we round up the fraction to store in the DB, and I am thinking to get an exact match with FSUIPC we should just truncate to the integer so I don't end up a gallon off all the time. Thanks, Scott

I have gone back and tried every plane I thought I had loaded and can't repeat it... So one of two things occurred most likely. An aircraft had fuel-type miss-set (I can't seem to duplicate) Or I loaded another 100LL aircraft thinking I had a JetA aircraft (Maybe I am crazy after all! :oops: ) Sorry for the churn.

Thanks Paul, I had seen a couple of your other posts showing that as well. It is interesting to note that using return offset.Value / 256.0; Does not implicitly convert the value to a float before division without the explicit cast. return offset.Value / 256d Does however do the implicit cast, and returns the right value Edit: just to complete this I did go back and try: return offset.Value / 256f; And it worked as well... That is really odd and either operand should force the other to the same precision. I would think that 256.0 should be considered a float, but apparently its not. Edit 2: I when back to 256.0 to do some more testing and now its working correctly?! Gah, sometimes you just can't win. And yes, I really had that in the code, I copy/pasted directly from the code above so I am not crazy...much. (I am checking to see if a selected aircraft has the wrong fuel type in the configuration, but don't remember what I was using now)

My bad, I thought there would be an auto conversion to double for the returned value since I was dividing by a double. I just split out the pieces and got it to work just fine getting the same retuned value in the offset you did sitting on the ground. Thanks for the touchback as I would have just moved on!

I will try that and let you know.

Apparently that offset is just integers. So my weight trick is non-functional, everything returns as 100LL. Its not a game breaker, more of a nice to have as I am providing a comparison of the FSE Model to the Loaded Aircraft in the Sim to try and help prevent end of flight errors due to incompatibilities. Just to make sure I am not doing anything wrong here are the code snippets I am using: Offset<short> _fuelWeight = new Offset<short>("AircraftInfo", 0x0AF4); public double FuelWeightPerGal { get { return _fuelWeight.Value / 256.0; } } It always returns 6.0

Hi Pete, Thanks for the quick response. JetA does have quite a bit of variation, but it is always greater then 6.4lbs per gallon. 100ll stays pretty consistent at a hair over 6lbs. I am not sure my work around now will actually work as I am unsure that offset 0XAF4 will return anything but an integer value. I am testing that now.

Good morning, I am in the process of revamping a client that uses FSUIPC over at FSEconomy and had a quick questions. I have searched for this, but apparently haven't hit the right keywords. Is there a way to determine the Loaded Aircrafts Fuel Type? I have searched the Offset PDF (I think I have the latest) and couldn't determine if that was available or not. I have looked in different aircraft.cfg files for FSX and see an entry there for that. As an example the fuel section for a B737-800: [fuel] Center1 = -5.9, 0.0, -3.2, 4299, 0 LeftMain = -9.7, -17.2, -3.2, 1288, 0 RightMain = -9.7, 17.2, -3.2, 1288, 0 fuel_type = 2 //Fuel type: 1 = Avgas, 2 = JetA number_of_tank_selectors = 1 electric_pump=1 fuel_dump_rate = 0.0167 For the default Aircreation 582SL: [fuel] Center1= -2.70, 0.00, -3.80, 10.00, 0.00 fuel_type=1.000000 number_of_tank_selectors=1 electric_pump=0 engine_driven_pump=0 I figured I could use the current weight per gallon (0xAF4) that is calculated to get a rough estimate as 100ll is generally right at 6lbs, whereas JetA is a bit heavier at 6.5+lbs, but if it is already available no use guessing. Thanks for a great product btw, I have personally been a silent paid user for a number of years now. (Just started using Mister Henty's .net wrapper as well, and another great piece of work that helps to simplify integration for those of us that like a managed environment.)