Refueling Bug

[Sphagnum]

Maybe someone could point this out to the author of this software (Dan I think is the name?), but the other day I was flying and landed at some small
airport. I parked, turned off the engine, unloaded my passengers and ended my flight. The profits seemed way too high so I took a deeper look and
noticed that I had paid for -200 gallons of gas. Upon further inspection, I realized I had parked next to a gas pump and my airplane had refueled
while unloading passengers.

So I actually GOT PAID for my gas usage instead of paying for it.

Maybe this is something that can be fixed for the next update in FsP... It's too tempting now to end each flight next to the gas pumps :-D

[Full_Throttle0]

Shut up. that is the best cheat i have ever heard of.

If u need money take a 747 on a 30 minute flight and when you land refuel.

[Drew]

your only cheating yourself at the end of the day...........

[splintercellguy]

In any case, FsPassengers cannot tell that the plane was parked on a refueling station, which is why the bug/cheat exists.

[Sphagnum]

splintercellguy wrote:
In any case, FsPassengers cannot tell that the plane was parked on a refueling station, which is why the bug/cheat exists.

Whatever MSFS uses to tell if you are close to one of these things to pump you full of gas, I'm sure could be programed into FSPassengers to either
disable the refueling or charge for all fuel added, you know?

Either that or get penalty points for it and have your passengers freak out because of the fuel fumes

[splintercellguy]

Uh, as I said, FsPassengers cannot tell if you're parked on a fuel pump, because MSFS does not report it.

[Full_Throttle0]

also good if you don't 1 hour reserve

[archer49d]

splintercellguy wrote:
Uh, as I said, FsPassengers cannot tell if you're parked on a fuel pump, because MSFS does not report it.

If it doesn't report it... how does it know when to refuel.

[Sphagnum]

splintercellguy wrote:
Uh, as I said, FsPassengers cannot tell if you're parked on a fuel pump, because MSFS does not report it.

I really doubt you are correct. Obviously MSFS can tell when to pump the gas, I imagine that it wouldn't be terribly difficult to find out what
variable that is and tell FSPax to trigger some sort of action whenever the pump is pumping...

But hey, I'm not a programmer....

[Full_Throttle0]

how about a sudden increase in weight?

[splintercellguy]

Okay, allow me to explain. MSFS internally recognizes when you've refueled your plane, but it does NOT tell external modules. Perhaps FSUIPC is able to recognize the event, but that would mean interfacing FsPassengers with FSUIPC, which means more overhead.



Post Edited ( 04-22-06 00:54 )

[Cathaxis]

Full_Throttle0 wrote:
how about a sudden increase in weight?

That gave me an idea......redundant question---FSPassengers keeps track of fuel usage and amount of fuel left, right? Instead of
programming it to recognize a sudden increase in weight, what about a sudden increase in the amount of fuel? I don't know how often
FSPassengers checks the amount of fuel, but if there's an increase in amount from one fuel check to the next, then it could not
necessarily penalize but take that into account when it figures up the fuel usage?

[Full_Throttle0]

i think it computes the amount of fuel you loaded when you started FsP then shows how much you used by using Fuel Flow like if you're
constantly burning fuel at X GPH for 2 hours then you used 2X gallons of fuel

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