Re-fueling oddity....Please advise....

Every time I go to Fuel & Payload and set fuel to 100% a warning window pops up
saying that it's out of range. It isn't but it thinks it is. I can only fill
up to about 98%. Has anybody else seen this? Anybody know of a fix?

Thankz.


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The Admiral spake thusly:

I don't think it is designed to be 100 percent.
I think they might allow room for expansion.


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My gosh, never seen that before. Which aircraft?

Also, where are you flying? Why do you need 100% fuel? (though ceartainly if
your flying a Cessna 172 on a 4 hour flight, or a 747 from LA to Melbourne
direct you might want 100%)

The Admiral wrote:

Well, what's the default amount of fuel you get when you call up a new
aircraft?

I get 100% as the default.



John

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The Admiral <ask-me@for.it> wrote:


For the sake of information, I get this problem as well. I tend just to
fuel to 98% now since it is easier and does not make a lot of difference.

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Midwinter

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 16:39:59 +1100, "Trent Hopkinson" <hoppys1@optusnet.com.au>
wrote:


I tend to fly around the world again and again and again. A different route
each time. I take off with as much fuel as I can and don't land until I see
something interesting or am low on fuel.

For example. Let's say the aircraft has a fuel take that holds 19547.2 lbs of
fuel. If I put in 100% it fills in the numbers all the way to the top. But
then it says that the fuel is out of range and tells me to reset it to 19547.2
or less (which is already is). Even putting in 19547.1 doesn't work. I usually
have to put in 1-2% less in order for it to take. And it's not every
time....Just about 75% of the time does it bitch. Been this way ever since I
got FS2K4.



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The Admiral
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On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 11:08:12 +0000 (UTC), Midwinter
<solstice688@TAKEYOURSPAMANDhotmail.com> wrote:



At least I'm not going crazy and imagining things. :-)


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The Admiral
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when this happens try lowering your payload a little and then see if you can
fuel to 100%. maybe flashing that due to whole AC being overweight at that
time.

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The Admiral wrote:

Out of curiosity, what aircraft do you fly in when you do this?



John

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Think "usable fuel".

On many aircraft, the tanks can never be completely emptied, unless you pump
it out.

Assume you had an aircraft with 100 gallon tanks, 98 gallons usable. Then
assume you flew this plane until the engine quite from fuel starvation
(which brings up another set of issues!).

You would still only be able to pump 98 gallons into the 100 gallon tanks,
because of the 2 gallons of "unusable" fuel in the tanks.




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