Fuel Capacity - FSX vs FSUIPC

[Airboss001]

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

 

 

[Pete Dowson]

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?

 

It probably is from SimConnect, but FSUIPC offsets for them are integers (and have been since FS98 days -- and FSUIPC has always been about maintaining compatibility for applications across FS versions)., so FSUIPC asks SimConnect for integers. To provide a floating point version I'd need to duplicate the information in 11 new 32-bit offsets, which I'd rather not.

 

Pete

[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!