Setting fuel defaults to off

lilycrose

Hi, is there an easy code change I could do, to maybe the flightmodel.cfg, to have the fuel valves start in the shutoff position. I understand it's not a change you want to make overall, but didn't know if there was a simple change for those of us who want it set to off for cold & dark. Thanks!

Black Square

I think that could be done by changing the following two lines in each flight_model.cfg:

default_fuel_tank_selector.1 = 19
default_fuel_tank_selector.2 = 20

Becomes...

default_fuel_tank_selector.1 = 0
default_fuel_tank_selector.2 = 0

Let me know if that works

lilycrose

I'm not sure what happened, but I had to uninstall FS24. When I reinstall it, I'll try again. Thanks for the information.

Andydigital

I just tested this and it doesn't work, fuel valves are still on by default even with the above changes.

lilycrose

Yes, I tried again after a reinstall of everything, and that's not the correct parameter.

Black Square

You could try adding the following section to each apron.flt. I've never used this method, but it appears in the flight configuration files of some Asobo aircraft.

[Fuel.0]
TankSelector=Off
TankSelector1=Off

Andydigital

Yes the above works great thank you Nick

Black Square

@Andydigital Yay! Glad I thought of something else for you to try.