DCS AERGES MIRAGE F1, Flight Manual

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DCS: Mirage F1 Flight Manual Version 1.0
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When the switch is on ‘EXTERNAL TANKS’:
1. External tanks and wing tanks
2. 2/3 of laterals rear
3. Central front
4. Remaining 1/3 of laterals rear
5. Laterals front
6. Remaining at feeders
7. Negative-g flight accumulator
The engine and the negative-g flight accumulator are fed by 3 pumps from the feeder tanks: one
in the left feeder and 2 in the right one (the extra pump in the right is the starter pump). The
negative-g flight accumulator allows for 10-15 seconds of inverted flight, but exceeding this can
result in either fuel starvation or damage to the engine.
Some models of the aircraft (such as the EE and the M) are air-to-air refuelling capable.
Controls
- Fuel transfer sequence selector switch: selects the transfer order.
- Feeder tank / fuselage switch: selects if the gauges display the fuel quantity in the feeder tanks
or in the whole fuselage.
- Crossfeed switch: allows the transfer between feeder tanks to correct any possible fuel
imbalance in the aircraft.
- Emergency fuel transfer switch: enables an emergency transfer by gravity of fuel from the aft
lateral tanks to the feeder tanks.
- LP main cock switch: enables the LP fuel supply to the engine and afterburner to be shut off.
- A/B main cock switch: enables the fuel supply to the afterburner only to be shut off.
- Left fuel pump switch: allows the left pump to be energized.
- Right fuel pump switch: allows the right pump to be energized.
- Starter fuel pump switch: allows the start pump to be energized. It is automatically actuated
by the cover of the ignition switch.
Indicators
- Fuel transfer indicator: represents the different tanks of the aircraft, the corresponding
light turns on whenever one of the tanks is empty (e.g. see figure 3-13 below, with
empty wing tanks, shown by the red lights indication).
- Dual fuel level gauge: shows the remaining fuel quantity (in litres) either in the feeders
or fuselage depending on ‘Feeder tank / fuselage switch’ position. Note: there are 2
needles, one for each side of the aircraft.
- Fuel remaining indicator: 4 digit counter of the remaining aircraft fuel (to be set every
time a refuelling takes place, using the reset thumbwheel).