DA40NXI Fuel Quantity
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 11:27 am
Is the inability to set a fuel quantity above 28 gallons a system limitation or a setting that can be changed?
I'm not referring to the gauges. I sort of understand that. I'm referring to the "totalizer" information that can be entered manually - actual fuel added - and which displays fuel remaining and endurance. Tapping "increase fuel" will not move the total above 28.
We have the 20 gallon tanks. When we do a complete top off, there seems to be no way to tell the system we have 39 gallons and not just 28. It counts down from the 28. Period. That makes the in-flight totalizer information simply wrong. Telling me I have 10 gallons of fuel and 1.5 hours left when I actually have 21 gallons and 3 hours left is objectively incorrect. And it is a mismatch with the gauges which now do show the 21 gallons left.
Not really interested in work-arounds. I have that.
I'm not referring to the gauges. I sort of understand that. I'm referring to the "totalizer" information that can be entered manually - actual fuel added - and which displays fuel remaining and endurance. Tapping "increase fuel" will not move the total above 28.
We have the 20 gallon tanks. When we do a complete top off, there seems to be no way to tell the system we have 39 gallons and not just 28. It counts down from the 28. Period. That makes the in-flight totalizer information simply wrong. Telling me I have 10 gallons of fuel and 1.5 hours left when I actually have 21 gallons and 3 hours left is objectively incorrect. And it is a mismatch with the gauges which now do show the 21 gallons left.
Not really interested in work-arounds. I have that.