Yesterday I was watching air crash investigation episode name routing on empty and it’s had uneven amount of fuel in each engine this was a Airbus a 330 200 so they transferred fuel from engine 1 to engine 2 I think with fuel burn confirmed we should be able to do this.
I think this would require complex controls in if. I really hope they add more controls and this too. Great feature request
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I think they should add other missing controls before this.
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Thank you😀😀😀😀😀😀
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As it is you can already take off with no fuel on one side/all fuel on either side…
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Maybe if the plane is not balanced correctly it may drop slightly on one side? 🤔
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If autopilot isn’t compensating. Yes.
Adding to that. I just stalled an A321 out doing just this. Deep stall as in 0 IAS Freefalling. If i’d had another 2-3,000ft I might have been able to recover it. Fuel imbalance is serious business.
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Why would we need this? Its kinda pointless
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Not sure if it would be needed…
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We can already do this. Maybe with fuel burn you should be able go into the fuel settings and only transfer from tank to tank but not increase your fuel load.
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Have you experimented with heavy crosswind take off/ landing? I wonder if the weight transfer could be used for stabilization? I can’t, I’m out til tomorrow.
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I just did a Boeing 777-200LR with all the fuel on the right side, and it just kept rolling until it hit the ground. I tried with the A321, and it was pretty easy to recover.
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