Spitfire Question

[IvanK]

WRT Fuel quantity indications in the Spit only the bottom tank is a gauged. IRL the Fuel gauge reads 0 and only indicates bottom tank quantity WHEN the push button is pressed and held. As soon as the button is released the needle returns to zero.... source Pilots Operating notes

There is a Youtube clip that has been posted on this forum showing Spitfire I daily flight inspection that illustrates this clearly.

Its incorrectly modelled in CLOD

[Kurfürst]

Originally Posted by IvanK

IRL the Fuel gauge reads 0 and only indicates bottom tank quantity WHEN the push button is pressed and held. As soon as the button is released the needle returns to zero.... source Pilots Operating notes

Ever since Jane's WW2 Fighter showed us nice 3D cocpits of the Spitfire, I have an ever growing feeling that there was a raving madman in Mitchell's team, most intimately involved in designing the instrument panel: Half the instruments are in the impossible places, indicating things in the weirdest possible manner - or not at all as above.

[klem]

Originally Posted by Kurfürst

Ever since Jane's WW2 Fighter showed us nice 3D cocpits of the Spitfire, I have an ever growing feeling that there was a raving madman in Mitchell's team, most intimately involved in designing the instrument panel: Half the instruments are in the impossible places, indicating things in the weirdest possible manner - or not at all as above.

How dare you Sir!

That is a combination of British culture, ingenuity and security intended to prevent foreigners from stealing our aircraft. It is based in the long tradition of Heath-Robinson who, IMHO, should have been Knighted. The obsessively sterile cleaned-up 'modern' cockpit layout has changed the character of an aircraft from a 'she' to an 'it'.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by IvanK

WRT Fuel quantity indications in the Spit only the bottom tank is a gauged. IRL the Fuel gauge reads 0 and only indicates bottom tank quantity WHEN the push button is pressed and held. As soon as the button is released the needle returns to zero.... source Pilots Operating notes

There is a Youtube clip that has been posted on this forum showing Spitfire I daily flight inspection that illustrates this clearly.

Its incorrectly modelled in CLOD

+1

Thanks for the correction. I found my download of the MKII pilot notes from Zeno's page. Works exactly as you say in the MK II

The Mark I manual that came with the game shows the dual guages but once again the button needed to be pressed to read them.

Cheers!