Turbine duke Engine gauges and ETM differences
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Hi there!
I noticed that the Engine Trend Monitor and the engine gauges sometimes disagree. I think it has something to do with different criteria for rounding on the two engines.In the following picture you can see that according to the ETM, the Left engine is producing 994 lb-ft of torque, while the Right engine is producing 993 lb-ft. The engine gauges however show 990 for the left and 1000 for the right. It looks like the Right engine gauge rounds up to the next ten when passing xx1, rather than waiting until xx9 like the left side.
The same happens with PROP RPM:
The ETM shows both at 2002 rpm, while the engine gauges show 10 more for the right side.The LVARS report the same value of the ETM, so I guess those are the correct values.
Any chance you could look into the different rounding rule for the right engine gauges?Keep up the good work!
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Excellent observation, but this one is 100% intentional, and has nothing to do with rounding. I very much dislike when engine parameters read identically in simulated multiengine aircraft, as it's a dead giveaway that you're looking at a simulation. In the real world, no two engines are the same, and they can actually be substantially more different than what I have programmed here. As for the ETM, I didn't mind leaving its values the same as the L:Vars, since most (if not all) real world ETM installations use their own completely different "engine and environment sensors" package, which would produce slightly different values anyway.
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I suspected it was one of your personal touches, I appreciate it.
So in this case I should ignore the ETM and keep the engines syncronised based on the engine instruments directly, correct?
