Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fuel & Weight dialog changes & docs

[Jon S. B. <js...@ha...>]

> The dialog is currently disabled for JSBSim, but the interface is
> really very simple.  The weight interface is trivial: if you can
> import a point mass into the FDM from a property named in
> configuration file (specifically /sim/weight[n]/weight-lb at the
> moment) then you can use this without change.
>
> The fuel stuff is only a little more complicated; the docs are at the
> top of Nasal/fuel.nas.  But the essence is that the tank capacity and
> current fill need to be settable from "script space" via the
> /consumables/fuel/tank[n]/... property trees, and the engines need to
> export their consumption (currently YASim sets a fuel-consumed
> "accumulator" value, but we could make this work with a flow rate with
> some extra nasal).
>
> Andy

Yeah, this sounds do-able. If someone else doesn't pick this up, I'll put
this on my list.

Thanks.

Jon