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OK, I've just started looking into the "Modifying 3D Gauges" Thread and noticed that you could now calibrate the Spit fuel gauge to work correctly? My Spit fuel gauge doesn't move at all, it always indicates Full. I'm afraid that diving in and modifying code is not my thing, so if there is a kind soul out there who could explain the changes and values step by step, I would be deeply appreciative. Thanks in advance.

Hi Fish 40. The Spit fuel gauge was fixed a patch or two ago, and should be working fine. Are you certain you've flown a long enough mission for the pointer to begin moving? The Spit has two tanks, mounted one above the other just forward of the cockpit. The top tank holds 48 gallons and the bottom 37. The top tank normally drains first and by design, the cockpit gauge only indicates the contents of the bottom tank - in other words, you need to burn off more than 56% of your full fuel load before the pointer will start to move.

Try using accelerated flight to speed things up, do a long free flight, and you should see the gauge working.

blue six

Both of the fuel gauges in the Hurricane and Spitfire read true for v2.11.
For the Stuka, ME110C, and ME109E fuel gauges to read true, you must use my Cockpits_v3 mod.
I spent a long... time painting the gauge faces and calibrating the gauge factors for true fuel gauge indications.

You might have noticed the Info Tag on top of the Spitfire fuel gauge.
This is my last paint of it, and all graduations on all of my gauges read true, not just the full and empty marks.


Note 1. The gauge sits at the far right of the cockpit panel, so when viewed from center head position, you get a realistic parallax view of the pointer
(above the gauge face) and the graduations (below the pointer) which is an erroneous view of the gauge.
So to read it most accurately, lean over right to eliminate what us Instrument Mechanics call parallax view of the pointer to face.

Note 2. Pay no attention to the tail on ground graduations. Beyond the scope of the sim to do that up correct, pardon us.

Note 3. Here is a little sketch I made of the Spitfire and Emil's cruise ferry range. Both tested flying 80% power, 8,000 feet, with the fullest coarse prop pitch allowed for flight,
straight true and level trimmed, flying manually all the way.
The ME109 is the blue line. The black (top tank) and red (bottom tank) lines are the Spitfire. Both starting off from Le Havre. The Emil test was in Campaign.

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Blue six wrote,



Yes. Try a Landing mission at Le Havre. Immediately turn and steer directly north at 80% power, 8,000 feet, coarse prop pitch.
Once straight true and level, press M for Map and Accel north. I tested many times, and when in Map Accel, fuel is burned at the same rate as when flying all the way manually.
Near Spurn Head, your top tank should be draining dry, Go back to manual fly, and see when the 3D pointer starts moving.
If your Left Fuel Cock for the bottom tank is closed (down) the game will throw you out of Map Accel when the top tank is dry and the engine is starved, as I recall.

EDIT, I just repeated this test, and still OK. Spurn Head is damned near (a 1/2 mile south maybe) where the top fuel tank runs dry.

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"Toto! I don't think we are in Kansas anymore!" Dorothy, OZ
"sniff.. sniff.. Snort! ARF! GGRRRR! ARF! (Tod der stinkenden republikanischen Partei, diesem ignoranten religiösen Monstrum.)" Toto

OK guys, thanks for the info. It's quite possible I haven't flown long enough to notice. Will do some testing. Thanks again.