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Fuel quantity (C152 style)

Fuel quantity (C152 style)

The left and right tanks on two small rectangular dials set in a black strip, as on a C152's panel: dark gray faces with muted arcs, FUEL QTY printed across them, and long white needles under a glass reflection.

Modeled on
Cessna 152-style small rectangular fuel quantity gauges
Category
Engine and systems
Size
1 cell
Version
1.0 · 2026-10-19
Plan
Pro
Simulators
MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024 · X-Plane 11 · X-Plane 12

Variants

Fuel quantity (C152 style): C152 style

C152 stylev1.0

This instrument; it appears in the picker as the FACE variant of Fuel quantity

Picker: Fuel quantity, FACE: C152 style

Features

  • Two small dials, L and R in the corner, FUEL QTY across each
  • Numbers and ticks scaled to the tank size (every 10, 20 or 50 gal)
  • Muted, printed-looking red, yellow and green arcs and red lines from the profile
  • Needle with a soft shadow and a glass reflection over the face
  • Red X over the strip when a tank value is missing or stale
  • Realistic needles (Settings): spring and vibration
  • Night lighting: the face takes the panel's red flood light, the glareshield's warm light from above (stronger for instruments higher on the page) and its own light, a lamp hidden at the top of the case lighting the dial downward (Settings > Dimmers: Red flood light, Glareshield, Instruments (analog))

Your aircraft: Tank range and the red low-fuel arc come from the profile. A generic profile (an aircraft the Hub doesn't know) gets wide default scales with no bands or red lines.

On the iPad

  • No knobs: a tap asks to change the instrument

Settings

  • Global: Realistic needles

Simulator data

What the Hub reads from the simulator for this instrument, and what the instrument sends back. Names are the simulators' own: MSFS SimVars and events, X-Plane datarefs and commands.

Reads

ValueMSFSX-Plane
Left main tank quantity (gal)FUEL TANK LEFT MAIN QUANTITY (gallons)sim/cockpit2/fuel/fuel_quantity[0]
Right main tank quantity (gal)FUEL TANK RIGHT MAIN QUANTITY (gallons)sim/cockpit2/fuel/fuel_quantity[1]

Add-on aircraft with their own systems may use other variables; the Hub reads the standard ones.

Changes

The instrument's version counts what its faces share (the case, the mechanism, the data, the sounds); a face's own version counts that face alone.

  • 1.0 2026-10-19
    • First numbered version.
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