XR Flight Operations Manual Version 3.0
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Fuel and Oxygen Consumables Management
XR vessels support built-in refueling when you are docked with any vessel or landed
on any planet or moon; no fuel MFD or other add-on is necessary. Refueling and
LOX
(Liquid Oxygen)
resupply settings are fully configurable
via you’re your vessel’s
configuration file (e.g.,
XR5VanguardPrefs.cfg
); the default configuration is to allow
MAIN fuel refueling and LOX resupply when docked with any vessel or landed on any
planet or moon, but you may only resupply SCRAM and APU fuel when landed on
Earth (since you only need significant amounts of SCRAM and APU fuel when in an
atmosphere). You may change any of this behavior as desired by editing the config
file.
To refuel or resupply you must be landed or docked and your XR configuration
settings must be set to allow refueling and/or LOX resupply for your location. For
example, you could configure your vessel to only allow refueling on the
ground
and
never
while
docked
.
Replenishing Fuel and LOX Tanks
1.
After docking (or landing and coming to a full stop), switch to the lower panel
and open the fuel and/or LOX hatches depending on whether you want to
resupply fuel, LOX, or both.
Ship Mass Display and Resupply Hatch Switches
2.
You will hear the external fuel and/or LOX hatches open, followed by a thump
when the external lines connect and magnetically lock. You will see pressure
build on the
EXTERNAL LINE PRESSURE
gauges. When pressure reaches
nominal for each line the green light below the gauge will come on.