Hello everyone. I have been working on an electric aircraft within the flight sim, but unfortunatley when I go into the aircraft editor and then click at the engine tab and select the electric engine, I am not able to gain any sort of power or rpm in general. Thank you for your help and best regards
Athanasius
Your engine type will also revert to piston every time you open the aircraft editor
Hello @Athi024 and @runshotgun ,
We are aware of a past issue concerning the engine type beeing reset to “Piston” every time you were opening an electric aircraft via the editor. This is now fixed with the latest SU14 version.
Please tell me if this fixes your issue @Athi024. If it doesn’t, I suggest you to send us your package following the third section of this page. This will help us to investigate more easily.
Regards,
Alexandre
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Dear Alexandre,
I am able to select an electric engine in the aircraft editor, where I can set the parameters. But the engine does not produce any thrust. It does not jump back to a piston engine, but it just does not work – RPM moves up but not thrust is generated.
I am wondering how the VoloCity aircraft (part of the standard aircraft set) was modeled, as it contains only electric engines.
We are manufacturing electric aircraft and need to be able to include an electric engine model in our MS Fligh Sim project. We would not like to resort to using a piston engine with similar performance.
Thank you very much!
Best regards,
Tin
For now, so you can start testing your plane, why not use a fake gas engine, have a phenomenally high fuel range, a half gallon tank, and that can be your electric motor for now. At least then you can start testing it.
This is how we did electric motors back in the FSX/FS2004/P3D days.
Bill
LHC
Also, you could create a XML that will autostart your engine when you add 1% plus power to throttle, and another that will shut down your engine when you are at zero throttle, as like an electric motor would have.