I want a fuel pump pop up window. can a LUA script do this?

[Brian S]

I'm trying to put something together so that when I'm parked at a fuel pump:

 

1. it won't automatically fill me up to 100%

 

2. a window pops up in full screen mode and asks me how much fuel I want in gallons and/or pounds. or gives me an option to use a custom fuel program (for planes like PMDG, MAJESTIC, A2A, etc)

 

 

can a LUA script do this? or would I need more advanced programming.

 

 

actually all I really want, the bare minimums would be to at least be able to drive to a pump station in FSX and not have it automatically fill me up.. 

[Pete Dowson]

I'm trying to put something together so that when I'm parked at a fuel pump:

 

1. it won't automatically fill me up to 100%

 

2. a window pops up in full screen mode and asks me how much fuel I want in gallons and/or pounds. or gives me an option to use a custom fuel program (for planes like PMDG, MAJESTIC, A2A, etc)

 

 

can a LUA script do this? or would I need more advanced programming.

 

 

actually all I really want, the bare minimums would be to at least be able to drive to a pump station in FSX and not have it automatically fill me up.. 

 

For FS2002 and FS2004 there is a facility in FSUIPC3 to stop the automatic fuelling action at fuel pumps -- "StopAutoFuel=Yes" in the INI file. But I never found how to do this in FSX, and to be honest no one ever asked either.

 

To do it in Lua you'd probably need to have an offset event on the fuel tank values, and if the value increased when it wasn't done by your own code (ie in this Lua) restore the previous value. You can use other Lua facilities to detect a switch, keypress or button and prompt for a fuel value, then load it immediately, or more realistically, slowly increase the value till the requested amount was provided.

 

Pete

[aua668]

Hi,

 

Alternatively you could use FS Refuel: http://www.sprucesim.com/products.html

This tool does a nice job. You also can run it on a second PC, if you have one in your configuration.

 

Rgds

Reinhard

[Brian S]

thanks the both of you.

[Brian S]

Hi,

 

Alternatively you could use FS Refuel: http://www.sprucesim.com/products.html

This tool does a nice job. You also can run it on a second PC, if you have one in your configuration.

 

Rgds

Reinhard

 

I wanted to ask you. Does this automatically pop up when you pull into a fuel parking spot in FSX? Does it disable the automatic fueling to 100%?

Other than that, it looks pretty neat.

Thanks

[aua668]

Hi,

 

It does not pop-up automatically (I run it on my second PC manually providing weather, etc. as part of my startup procedure) and if it does stop automatically refueling: I don't know. I use Prepar3D 2.4 and I don't think, that they are automatic refueling. Have not seen this. But I am more a jet flyer than GA and on the jet parking spots there are typically no refuelling spots ;-)

 

Rgds

Reinhard