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Jun 28^th, 2004 at 11:39am

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How can plane fly with out fuel.
I ran out of fuel and kept flying - how's that can be? ???

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Reply #1 - Jun 28^th, 2004 at 11:58am

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Is 'unlimited fuel' checked in the realism settings?

Don't expect your plane to drop out of the sky when you run out, you don't need fuel to generate lift Wink

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Reply #2 - Jun 28^th, 2004 at 2:32pm

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planes can glide for a good 75 to 100 miles i believe or the bigger jets can i wouldnt expect a cessna to go that long though.

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Reply #3 - Jun 28^th, 2004 at 3:25pm

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planes can glide for a good 75 to 100 miles i believe

Surely this would depend on their altitude when the fuel ran out. Wink

Some jet fighters have the gliding qualities of your average house brick.

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Reply #4 - Jun 28^th, 2004 at 4:55pm

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And some house bricks have the gliding qualities of your average jet Grin

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Reply #5 - Jun 28^th, 2004 at 5:03pm

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Is 'unlimited fuel' checked in the realism settings?

Don't expect your plane to drop out of the sky when you run out, you don't need fuel to generate lift Wink

(I hope you already knew that Grin

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I forgot customize the realism settings, so unlimited fuel was on.
another question what is automixture and autorudder?

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Reply #6 - Jun 28^th, 2004 at 5:16pm

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Automixture allows the computer to adjust your fuel mixture to its optimum level during flight, as in the real world you have to adjust this for altitude etc....
Autorudder is an automatic rudder that compensates in turns for you (not v.well), personally I prefer to have full rudder control.

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Reply #7 - Jun 28^th, 2004 at 5:40pm

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Autorudder is for those using a standard joystick without a separate rudder control. It links the rudder with the ailerons. This coordinates turns in the air & also enables you to steer on the ground using the aileron joystick axis.

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Reply #8 - Jun 29^th, 2004 at 11:30am

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Ok, another question.
What Autogen Density, Scenery Complexity and Dynamic Scenery do , do they have to be extremly dence? for better realism and grafics

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Reply #9 - Jun 29^th, 2004 at 3:55pm

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Depends on your system's capabilities. Those are some of the settings to toy with in order to maximize performance on your system.

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Reply #10 - Jun 29^th, 2004 at 4:57pm

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what are they for

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Reply #11 - Jun 29^th, 2004 at 5:20pm

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I found this in FS2002 Help.

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Reply #12 - Jun 29^th, 2004 at 5:55pm

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ok

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