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virtuali:

--- Quote from: couger on May 07, 2024, 01:13:21 pm ---before the last update I always got 4 pallets no matter what the payload was set to.
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That's of course normal because, before the last update, the number of cart was unrealistically fixed, because we were swamped by users not understanding the "you must load the airplane first" concept, but then lots of users wanted the variable number back (it WAS variable, years ago), so we put it back, hoping the payload issue would be understood, but it seems is still a difficult concept to grasp.


--- Quote ---When you say payload are you talking about the payload in the pmdg fmc under payload or is it from a p3d payload setting?
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GSX can only read standard airplane variables so, the payload is read from these. GSX can't read anything else so, we can only assume that, when you load something in the PMDG FMC, it will be eventually matched in the standard payload variables.

Which might not happen *immediately*, because the airplane might simulate a progressive loading, so the variable might not be updated to the final value until this is completed. This was an issue which forced us to switch to the unrealistic fixed loading, for example.

However, now that we have Simbrief support, the issue of the airplane loading slowly is no longer an issue, because if you use Simbrief, the variable amount of carts will then based on the PLANNED payload, not the actual values when you call GSX, which might be or not updated, depending how the airplane handles them.

LukeK:
Is there any chance this could be configurable via LVAR?

Cheers

Captain Kevin:
I would also like to know if there's a way to configure the maximum payload via LVAR. I had the same issue last night when I was trying to test out why only two carts would show up, even in a case where I used the maximum payload.

https://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,31827.0.html

On the PMDG Boeing 747-400 standard passenger variant, if you load it to 100% payload via the FMC, you get a payload weight of 148,412 pounds. Yet somehow, GSX is reading that as 33.46% payload with a maximum payload of 443,489 pounds. Where that value came from, I have no idea, since the empty weight of the airplane is 394,087 pounds, the maximum zero fuel weight is 542,500 pounds, and the maximum take-off weight is 875,000 pounds, so you can't even have a payload of 443,489 pounds since that would put your zero fuel weight at 837,576 pounds. If there was a way to set the maximum passenger count and maximum payload via LVAR, that could solve the issue of it reading the wrong value.

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