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Engine management and failures designer?

lionheart

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Hey all,

Does anyone know how to cause engine failures and manipulate power on aircraft?

For instance, when the temp is cold outside, and the carb icing isn't on, then one starts to get a freezing carb intake, so the power would begin to go, then engine failure. Another would be over-heating on a petrol engine, causing low power.

I have tried to do this with XML and could never figure out how to over-ride the input to cause percentage losses in the engine output.

I do not want to make planes that are impossible to fly, but it would be nice to have 'some' realism that normal planes have.


If you might know how to write code that can do this realistically, I would be interested.



Bill

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Can't help ya there but thought I would throw in that it would be kinda neat to have aircraft accumulate wear-&-tear as you continue to use your bird. Like it needing a 100 hour inspection, annual inspection... maybe aircraft is forced to be unflyable while in for repairs.

ok... I'll be quite now. :o
 
I have wanted to do that. Mainly for oil changes and then rebuilds.

If only I knew how to do all the things that I dream of...
 
I'm seeing this as a possible addon module on something we've been working on. Wanted to investigate if this could be designed as some sort of default practice based on P3D (FSX) SDK's, or if it would have to be aircraft/developer custom specific.
 
Bill, I suppose the mechanics of carb freeze power loss are that the manifold pressure goes down regardless of the throttle position?

Can be done with C++, but I don't know how difficult would it be.
 
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