Aircraft Systems

How X-plane works

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Check the fuel when restoring a flight

Whenever you reload a saved flight or resume the last flight, always check the fuel quantity that has been loaded.
For example if you make a flight with the default Laminar B737 and save the flight, when you reload the saved flight again, X-Plane 12 seems to reset the fuel to a default amount and does not save the actual fuel remaining when you saved the flight.

This is not consistent between the default aircraft, so always as a matter of proper planning, check the fuel load as part of the pre-fight preparations – don’t assume that the fuel loaded between flights will remain the same even if you did not even start the engines.

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Brakes, Chocks and Aircraft that refuse to Taxi

There have been a number of changes to the way brakes are applied and released.

  • If the brakes are released and the aircraft still won’t move, check the chocks in the ground handling menu.
  • The “V” key (maximum brake effort) works differently. You can no loner release brakes by using V as a toggle.
  • The “B” key works in some aircraft and not in others (try it in the Cirrus for example)
  • The “B” key has different strengths in different aircraft.
  • And of course the granddaddy of all handbrake confusion – check that your pedals are not set to “full brakes” when released. (To fix, swap the brake axis assignments by ticking or unticking the “Reverse axis” checkbox in the AXES section of the Joystick Settings menu).

And the BEST TIP OF ALL:

– Set the Data Output “Gear & brakes” (#14) to display on the screen. Then you can see what is working and at what strength (from 0.0 to 1.0).

The easiest way to see “whats going on” is to use the Data Output functionality and display “gear&brakes”, this will show you the ratio of brake application from 0.0 to 1.0.