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ok, im flying around the world, have got as far as mumbai from various stops in europe from stansted, anyway just realised im running outta fuel, how do i refuel a plane, its the idfg 767 spirit of boeing.......

at various airports there should be a gas pump. pull up to it and put your parking brake on it should then refill and you can be on your merry way

yeah funny, ok so where at mumbai is this 'gas?'

i have no idea but assuming ms didnt completely mess it up you should be able to find it somewhere near a terminal building or hanger

well i was figuring on some keyboard key combination to do it but i guess its gonna be a long drawn out process.

just go into the options bar with the alt key then in one of the menus is a fuel and payload option you can use that

so whats all this guff about a gas pump...? or am i wasting my time in this forum...?

ok, here's what I would do...

sice your using a passenger aircraft they usually fuel these aircraft in service areas or at the gate right?

ok, pull up to the gate pretend to be unloading/loading pax. and do the following:

Alt, A, F

set fuel to desired amount and click OK! :-)

Pushback from the gate:

Shift + P until far enough back and hit shift p again to stop pushback.

start get going again! :-)

well most people who ask this question want a semi realistic way of refueling and the general way for that is the gas pump that MS has put on most airfields however in your case you just want a quick refuel which had you stated in your original thats all you wanted then it would have been quicker. as for wasting your time, if thats the respone you want to give for me at least trying to help then i guess you are.

Jared, thanks for your advice will try it in a few minutes, please someone demote the other poster from a 5 star member, i dont have the time for people like that.

mog, in that case this forum doesn't have time for people like you.

We always go out of our way to welcome newcomers here and Craig is always one of the first.

Why don't you just sod off and take your attitude with you as you are not welcome by me and I suspect many others.

mog,

I doubt we will demote a member with over 6800 posts, and CraigL is absolutely correct.  There should be a fuel pump.

mog= TROLL ......... and we all know what that means!!!!

so whats all this guff about a gas pump...? or am i wasting my time in this forum...?

There are two ways to refuel an aircraft. First you can look for the gas pump and stop close to that and it will refuel your airplane. Sometimes the sim is picky about where you need to be parked though and if you don't get it perfect it will refuse to refuel you.

The most sure way and second way to refuel is to use the "Alt" key method. This way you can also choose the amount of fuel (pumps only fill you all the way up).

In FS 2002 the pumps were easy to find because they had this big yellow square to park in. FS 2004 doesn't have this square and the pumps themselves have been made to look more realistic. (actually they have several different styles of pumps). Unfortuately the new system makes the pumps harder to find. I find they tend to be around the "parking" area. Just call ATC and ask to taxi to parking and they should put you somewhere near the pumps (doesn't always work but sometimes).