Greetings. I’m hoping to please get some illumination on the source data for the aircraft selection screen statistics, and I have some related questions and concerns. There doesn’t seem to be any documentation on this…
Example image (streamed DA62):
I know the “12999 foot max altitude” for all planes has been logged as a bug, but where do some of these other values come from?
Entries I understand…
Cruise speed: Comes from flight_model.cfg → [REFERENCE SPEEDS] → “cruise_speed =”
Range: Comes from aircraft.cfg → “ui_max_range =”
Engine & Instrumentation: from aircraft.cfg → “ui_powerplant_specifics =” & “ui_instrumentation =” etc.
Entries I don’t…
Seats: Is this from the “capacity =” value in aircraft.cfg, or is it counting actual passenger seats from the navigation graph? In either case, why is the value incorrect on this plane, and many other planes show 0 seats?
Cabin: Is this from the various career mode tags? If so is there a specific correct location for it?
Landing Surface: Seems to be interpreted from flight_model.cfg contacts. If it has “normal” wheels it shows the “tower” icon, and if it meets the “big wheel” radius requirement etc, you get the “land” mountain icon etc. If it has floats it shows the “water” icon, which makes sense, however amphibians also show only “water” as their landing surface. Is this due / related to the current restrictions on amphibians working in career mode (firefighting only)?.
Fuel: I assume this means fuel burn rate? The DA62 has the following stated burn rate, in aircraft.cfg - > ui_fuel_burn_rate = 79 lbs/hr. I think that should equate to 49.66 litres/hr, not the 35.8 L/hr shown (unless my math is wrong, quite possible!), so I think it must be getting this value somewhere else?
My main concern is that none of these values can be seen prior to the aircraft being streamed in the sim. If you load the Diamond DA62 SDK project, you get none of these shown, nor can I get any statistics or info to appear for any presets in my project (Grumman Albatross) unless I make sure the preset folders have the same names as the two presets currently available in the streaming version of the plane in the sim. Any new presets I make have no statistics shown at all, not even cabin type.
Are all of these entries being created on the server side after upload? If so, is there a way we can replicate and test these values locally?
Lastly, it would be great to have some method of specifying all of these entries in a single file, if possible, and have these other sources used as a backup method when it isn’t present, (2020 ports etc).
Thank you!
