Fuel Reservoir
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As far as I know the C208 has a fuel reservoir sitting behind the wing tank shutoff valves, collecting the fuel before it is delivered to the engine and holding enough fuel for a few minutes of engine operation.
The POH even suggests to shut both valves on final in case of an off-airport landing since there is enough fuel in the reservoir to land ("3 to 9 minutes").
However turning both selectors to off in the sim immediately shuts down the engine. Could this be added or am I overlooking something?
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I've addressed this a few times before, but I thought I would chime in again. The reason I haven't addressed this relatively simple seeming feature in my aircraft is because it's substantially difficult to separate fuel control from the simulator's native fuel shutoff, fuel selector, mixture, and (most of all) condition lever hardware inputs.
As you might imagine, not much would be worse than someone downloading my aircraft for the first time and being unable to use any of their existing hardware controls for the most essential part of starting/running the engine. These are the kinds of decisions I have to make pretty regularly to ensure a good user experience.
I have, however, thought of some ways to do this without having to touch those native controls. I will just have to see how practical they are. Thanks, guys!
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I’ve read about this, in previous threads, and thought to myself, that people are just being overly pedantic. ”Just don’t shut off both fuel selectors”, right?
Then the other day during a flight, I went to turn back on the fuel selector I had temporarily turned off, in order to balance the fuel tanks, when I instead accidentally turned off the other fuel tank as well. ”Oh! I see the problem now…”, I thought, while I had to practice an air start for the first time.
If it’s at all possible, I also wouldn’t mind a brief grace period.
Regards,
Mr Clumsyfingers
