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Title: Passengers numbers for a plane
Post by: mwyatt on July 22, 2020, 07:38:52 pm

Hi, can you help, I have a new plane Airbus A350, Freeware. Using P3d v4.5 and GSX and GSX2
When attempting to board, the estimated number of passengers is 1, I understand this is related to the aircraft weight.
I do not understand how the weight is calculated from the given data in the attached file.
Could you please suggest how I might correct the figures to give a sensible number of passengers to load.
Attached a file from Aircraft,cfg
Best regards, Martin.

Title: Re: Passengers numbers for a plane
Post by: Captain Kevin on July 22, 2020, 07:43:21 pm

Here's your problem:

station_load.0=0.000000,0.000000,0.000000,0.000000

That's set to 0 pounds.

Title: Re: Passengers numbers for a plane
Post by: mwyatt on July 22, 2020, 07:46:12 pm

Thanks for your very quick reply.
Does it matter which section I alter, there appears to be 4 entries.
Can I split the load across all 4 ??
Best regards, Martin.

Title: Re: Passengers numbers for a plane
Post by: virtuali on July 22, 2020, 07:50:34 pm

Quote from: mwyatt on July 22, 2020, 07:38:52 pm

I do not understand how the weight is calculated from the given data in the attached file.

GSX manual, Page 11:

Quote

the number of passengers on board, which equals to the sum of all the stations in the [weight_and_balance] section of the aircraft.cfg of the airplane in use, divided by 220 lbs. which is an industry standard method of calculating how much a single passenger + baggages weights, in average. For example, the default 737 has 22,000 lbs. of stations load when full, which equals to exactly 100 passengers.

I highlighted in Bold the part which answers to your second question about having several sections.

Title: Re: Passengers numbers for a plane
Post by: mwyatt on July 22, 2020, 08:44:12 pm

Hi Captain Kevin and Virtuali, thanks for your replies,
By a system of trial and error, as I do not knot know the significance of all the figures in the line, I have arrived at a working arrangement.
The line looks like this .... station_load.0=20000,000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000
This gives me a passenger load of 91.
I suspect that all the other zero's must put the load at, or near to, the centre of gravity.
Best regards and thanks,
Martin.

Title: Re: Passengers numbers for a plane
Post by: Captain Kevin on July 22, 2020, 11:38:02 pm

The first value, where you put the 20,000, is the weight. The other three values are the lateral, longitudinal, and vertical position relative to the reference datum point.