No not the same. That is asking for state-saving between flights. What I’m seeing is the sim resetting the fuel DURING the session. I’ll spell it out in steps:
- Set Weight and Balance preflight, with (for example 1000lbs of fuel)
- Complete flight, land and park, having burned, for example, 400lbs of fuel. The weight and balance menu will show 600lbs on-board
- Without having ended my session/flight, start to prep the aircraft for the next leg/hop.
- Open the W&B - it will still be showing the correct fuel value, but as soon as I alter any of the payload stations, the fuel will reset to the value entered in step 1. So in this example it would go from 600lbs back to 1000lbs.
As I said in the original post, this is new-ish behavior (last two months, post SU11). As I do lots of short flights with varied payloads I noticed pretty quickly that I was getting fuel discrepancies with what OnAir was expecting: it records how much you had in at the end of each OnAir flight and unless you pay to add fuel it will expect the same value. Because you can preform multiple OnAir flights as part of a single MSFS session, you notice the fact that things suddenly don’t match, when they always used to .