Playing with the new aircraft description editor... noticing a couple of bugs.
1) One cannot save an aircraft where you have change the 'name'. It throws an error stating that the name already exists. HOWEVER... you can create as many new aircraft as you like, leaving the name as it is ('New Aircraft')! It will happily let me change the name in the XML file, and the new name appears as it should when you re-open the program.
2) Aircraft set as using Avtur (and I'm using 'by mass') have their fuel burns cut by 64.6% in the 'Climb and Descent' tab everytime you click 'OK'.
3) Again with the Avtur by mass, when you first open the 'Cruise Profiles' tab, the fuel burn shown is wrong (45.4% of what it should be). If you click straight into the fuel burn input box, it stays the wrong figure. However, if you first reselect a Cruise Profile, the correct figure is reloaded into the input box. Note that this doesn't happen each time you click into the Cruise Profiles tab - only until you've selected a profile. Clicking back from other tabs again has the correct figure displayed. To get the buggy figure back, you have to click OK and re-open the aircraft again.
4) Now that fuel burns are far better deffined, can I ask again that Hold times (or FRF) and Contingency percentages are defined by aircraft, and not as a global value. Under JAR/EU-Ops, a turbine aircraft only requires 30mins FRF, but a piston aircraft must carry 45mins. Further, a school/club may state that students should plan to land with an hours fuel remaining for most of the fleet, but might reduce this to 45mins plus div fuel for the touring fleet. In a similar way, typical school contingency fuel is 10% (as leaning is rare and maneuvering is common), but that might be reduced to 5% for a touring aircraft with EGT or Fuel Flow guages.
5) Also, you appear to have dropped the 'hold fuel burn' from aircraft descriptions. What is the 5% and Hold Fuel based on? Hold fuel ought to be included in the 'General' tab?
As for everything else, I want your babies.
