Overview

• C# Windows application that captures and displays Mixture data from the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
• The application automatically connects to the running instance of MSFS.
• Its main control window can be hidden or moved to another screen.

Notes

• A cold engine (or one started at height from the map) will not have stable EGT temperature until the engine is warmed.
• The application amends the mixture lever and could potentially starve the engine. Safety Thresholds are adjustable

Operation

• The application status need to be Connected before it can function.
• Adjustments are only made to Engine 1
• Graph button
  • Takes the current Mixture value as its rich base
  • decreases (leans) the mixture in 5% steps capturing engine EGT and RPM after 10 seconds
    • EGT takes long time (10's of seconds) to stabilise if mixture changes significantly
    • RPM stabilises pretty quickly (couple seconds)
  • leaning continues to a 15% mixture, but halts if RPM drops more than a safe RPM from its peak
  • The initial mixture % is restored after the computations & graph is shown

Configuration

• The file Lside-Mixture.exe.config contains configuration properties for the above. If you edit it, you need to follow the files obvious pattern.
  • RpmDropThreshold
    • max acceptable drop in RPM
  • EgtDropThreshold
  • max acceptable drom in Peak EGT, from observed peak
  • TempStabilisedThreshold
    • difference between 2 successive reading, need to be below this value to be 'stable'
  • EgtChangeWaitDelayMSec
    • max time we will wait for egt to stabilise

To Install (Tested on 64 bit windows only)

Link to executable: https://github.com/JJ-blip/lside/releases/download/v1.0.0/Lside-Mixture.V100.zip

• unzip the application zip (e.g. Lside-Mixture.V100.zip)
• execute Lside-Mixture.exe

Lside.exe.config contains user changeable properties.

Known issues

• To early to say

License

Distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 License.