Fuel range ring ?

[Erich convair]

Hello,

noob question :

how do you activate the fuel range ring ?

According the Garmin manual, I should see an option about that but all I got is map north up.

 

thanks

 

[RobW05]

The function to turn it on or off is not modelled in the Laminar G1000. You will see the ring appear by default, but you will also find it is way off and not accurate in most cases. 

[Erich convair]

Ok. 

Thanks  

 

[EGT]

Why is it "off"? I thought it was supposed to be centered on aircraft position, and based on current vertical speed, ground speed, and altitude?

Are Laminar fixing this?

Edited October 21, 2019 by EGT

[RobW05]

9 hours ago, EGT said:

Why is it "off"? I thought it was supposed to be centered on aircraft position, and based on current vertical speed, ground speed, and altitude?

Are Laminar fixing this?

The "why" I don't know, but just to explain what I meant with "off":

1. It shows a false range. -> That is something Toto has been working on, so it's a TBM "bug" and will have to be fixed by Hotstart. 

2. The ring sometimes does not center correctly. -> That seems to be a Laminar bug, but I have no idea if they are working on a fix. If you can reproduce it best would be to file a bug report with Laminar. 

[EGT]

It's wrong for me the majority of the time.

Where do you file bug reports with LR?

[RobW05]

You can file bugs here:

http://dev.x-plane.com/support/bugreport.html

Be aware that a non-centered range ring might not be a bug per se. In the real G1000 the ring also includes wind information and I think that is also modelled in the xplane G1000. 

Definitively a bug it is when the ring is totally misplaced. 

[EGT]

I saw the range ring once last night, and it went from expanded to zero for no good reason.

[flexxAir]

On 10/23/2019 at 7:13 AM, RobW05 said:

You can file bugs here:

http://dev.x-plane.com/support/bugreport.html

Be aware that a non-centered range ring might not be a bug per se. In the real G1000 the ring also includes wind information and I think that is also modelled in the xplane G1000. 

Definitively a bug it is when the ring is totally misplaced. 

The non-centered ring is correct; as you mentioned it obviously takes the wind into account. Look at my screenshot; I have about 90kts of tailwind from the west - so flying downwind of course gives me a much greater range.

 

EDIT: I didn't test if the G1000 is capable of showing the "gliding range" in case of engine failure...that would be quite cool; has anyone tried this yet?

Edited January 6, 2020 by flexxAir