I have recently bought the FCS Lancaster. I quite like it except for a glaring issue.
The fuel does not leave the tanks evenly and I can't see a way to manage the fuel. It drains from one tank and you get a wing drop. The only way to sort is in the fuel and payload menu, and then you have to move the fuel about like that, not particularly realistic....
I recently found an 'evaluation' copy of this so I'll take a look for you. Thinking about it, I believe the Wellington is the same.. it starts a slow turn as the fuel burns. Looking at the detail.. David Chester did the FD for both (oh hum) Don't remember his VC10 doing this but I didn't spend enough time in it for fuel to burn
I've just had a look and found the Lancaster burns in the following sequence..
Centre tank
Centre 2 plus R/L tip
Centre 2 plus R/L Aux
R/L Aux
R/L main
Unlike the Wellington, it remained sat at 183deg (where I put it) throughout. I didn't see any uneven fuelburn mate.. this on the BI. I didn't fiddle with any of the tank switches.. just left everything at default.
The boost gauges don't work on my copy and the AH seems to work contrary to every other I have (eg, with a LH wing down.. the instrument appears to show RH wing down). Very odd indeed.. counter intuitive if you will and similar in some ways to the AH fitted to the VC10 so it may be correct.. it just doesn't look right
I wonder if the boost gauge fix bust the fuelburn? Seems unlikely I know
I looked at the Wellington again after checking the Lancaster and it appears to burn evenly so that's not the cause of the LH down. Perhaps it's directional stability isn't strong enough. We had a similar problem with the Dove years ago. Brian Withers sorted it but didn't say how
EDIT: No.. the boost gauge patch didn't bu99er the fuelburn. Really not sure what it could be mate. I've just flown Prestwick to Elvington and it didn't wander off
I have the same issue. Great plane by the way.
I think that PERHAPS it works okay (drawing from the centre tanks) if you already have the engines running when you save a flight, and then you re-load the session.
You may notice that every time you load a new session, or re-load the Lanc plane, the following switches always default, no matter what you had before:
- Gear indicator lamps (off)
- Boost coil (off)
- Flap indicator (off)
- Fuel selector knobs (centre)
Every time you re-load, the fuel selector knobs default to what appears to be a "shut" position but if you already had the engines running when you saved the last session (or transfer from another plane with engines running), then actually, the engines seem to run okay and it will fly. Somehow it magically sucks fuel from the centre tank.
BUT, if you start with engines off for the full experience of going through the starting procedure with each engine, then you have to set the left hand fuel knob to outer or inner, otherwise you can't get fuel pressure. The right hand knob doesn't seem to do anything functional. But, once you've done this, moving the fuel knob(s), it then always sucks from "Left Aux" ONLY and the trim gets difficult without manually shifting fuel around the whole time. If you try to set the fuel knobs back to the middle, your engines cut out. Fairly annoying! I've been seeing this for about a year. Only just found the "patch 1.0" yesterday and that seems to have no effect on the fuel draw. I did see the boost gauges change though - reading negative sometimes now, and the cockpit reflections are much better for low light flying (the big yellow blob is gone!).
I've even tried modifying the Aircraft.cfg file to adjust the order of fuel tank entries to put "centre" first, but that didn't seem to have any effect for the BIII.
I have a great new 2D panel for navigation, I may post this later.
Thanks for that Andrew and welcome to the nuthouse
I'm not sure if Paul ever got to the bottom of the Lanc's LH swing. It doesn't do it for me but that doesn't mean much. There seem to be differences between OS's and we all have our own preferences with sliders
It IS a nice model though.. in spite of some issues
Dont have any knowledge of that model, but my experience with my Q6 fuel distribution showed that FS9 & possibly FSX all draw fuel in a set sequence regardless of the fuel cock position. I have 'programmed' fuel cocks that should not be able to be set for 'both', but if you do a CTRL+E start sequence, thats the default position, same with the prop pitch, always goes to fine! (DH Gipsy engines should be started in Coarse....). If though you cycle the fuel cock before eng start then it seems to be OK. As for multiple fuel cocks - as in my Miles Mohawk - I had no success there - the sequence seemed to do its usual Aux fuel tank first!
Keith
I never got chance to re-check and don't have my PC set up yet (just moved) but will try the aircraft with engines already running.
The navigators panel sounds interesting too.
so I'll take a look for you. Thinking about it, I believe the Wellington is the same.. it starts a slow turn as the fuel burns. Looking at the detail.. David Chester did the FD for both (oh hum) 
Don't remember his VC10 doing this but I didn't spend enough time in it for fuel to burn 
