Refueling

[linacus]

People say that you can refuel ur plane, there are small petrol stations in almost every airport but how do you gt them to work?

Thanks
Stu

[logjam]

Just park your 'plane close to the Microgas re-fuelling base and watch as the fuel tanks go from empty to full in no time fast.

[linacus]

il try it l8a on nice one

[beaky]

I think you can also refuel any time/place by pressing  ,  (comma). Not sure if FS includes pumps at some of the smaller fields that have gas in real life (2N8, for example, had no installed tank for a while, but a tanker truck parked on the field).

[birdie]

I am not sure but you might have to shut down your plane first before it will refuel.  If you don't have to you should LOL!  Cheers!

[TacitBlue]

Ive noticed that with some planes you have to shut down to refuel, and with some you dont. Also, dont worry about hitting the pump with your wing, it just passes through without doing any damage.

P.S. does anyone know if it is possible to put the wrong kind of fuel in your plane in FS?

[beefhole]

Nope

[MattNW]

Ive noticed that with some planes you have to shut down to refuel, and with some you dont. Also, dont worry about hitting the pump with your wing, it just passes through without doing any damage.

P.S. does anyone know if it is possible to put the wrong kind of fuel in your plane in FS?

Even crazier than that. Some planes you have to shut down completely while others you just have to stop and put on your parking brakes. In others you only have to come to a complete stop without parking brakes. Some planes you just can't get the pumps to work at all no matter what. Doesn't seem to be any real pattern to which types require what.

Nope, you only get the gas you need. Whether it be regular Avgas or jet fuel. Even different types of jet fuel is automatically loaded depending on the type of airplane.

That would be fun having to choose the right gas to refill with. If they added that however I'd be willing to bet that Microsoft would probably get complaints from people who took off only to have the engine fail because they put Avgas into the Caravan or jet fuel into the Baron.  ;D

[JBaymore]

Microsoft would probably get complaints from people who took off only to have the engine fail because they put Avgas into the Caravan or jet fuel into the Baron.

It would be nice if they would simulate that kind of realism to start with.  

best,

.................john

[beaky]

And what about sumping it for water? Checking oil? Tire pressure? Etc?  Hmmm...
 Honestly, I kinda like not having to preflight the airplane... it's important in real life, but it's not FLYING!!

[Saratoga]

FS2000 and 2002 had their Professional editions. I was kinda hoping, for the 2K2 version anyways, for true checklists, real ATC calls, normal procedures, lots more traffic, much stricter controllers, all the preflight things mentioned before, fuel selection quantity, money perhaps.

but it didn't happen...

[legoalex2000]

i know of some mun airports that won't give JetA, just AvGas, you can chage these options in AFCAD

[Bell206freak]

Speaking of refueling, is there any way to get the fuel tank to refuel an aircraft?

[blitze]

does anyone know what the fastest plane is and the biggest

[beefhole]

Bell, moving into the yellow square should do it...

And blitze, that's kind of (actually it's really) off topic But the biggest/fastest default plane is the 747.