Empty Weight/Payload weight

[papanebo]

Hello,

 

I want to calculate the payload of an aircraft both in fsx and fs9 for a program i've been working on. I don't want to use the 1400 offset since it's not working with some aircraft like Flight's ATR and captain sim 707.

 

So what i do is read the ZFW and subtract the empty weight. So far so good, but although in FSX using FSUIPC4 it's possible to calculate an aircraft's empty weight using offset 1330, you can't do that in FS9 since offset 1330 is not supported in FSUIPC3 (tested it just for fun and it kept returning the same crazy value regardless the type of the aircraft).

 

So i was wondering if there's another way to read the Empty Weight using FSUIPC3. 

[Pete Dowson]

So i was wondering if there's another way to read the Empty Weight using FSUIPC3. 

 

I don't think so.

 

Why are the FS payloads not available with some aircraft?  Aren't they loading anything? What about the balance, the CG?

 

Pete

[papanebo]

I don't think so.

 

Why are the FS payloads not available with some aircraft?  Aren't they loading anything? What about the balance, the CG?

 

Pete

 

Oh crap! I forgot to mention that for some stupid reason they have more than 61 stations, so the returning value using offset 1400 is not accurate.

[Pete Dowson]

Oh crap! I forgot to mention that for some stupid reason they have more than 61 stations, so the returning value using offset 1400 is not accurate.

 

Ah, one station per seat, perhaps? How daft.

 

Sorry, there's really no solution then for those aircraft and FS9. FSUIPC3 is frozen now, so even if i had a way I would not be implementing it.

 

Pete