What happens to Intake air in the Resources Tab?

[Spacetraindriver]

Um...yeah. That. I used to use it all the time, in testing, flying, specifically VTOLing, as losing power to just on of the lifting  engines is deadly. And now that I use Planes and SSTOs fly to super high altitude, that information would of been really useful.

[Superfluous J]

It's not a resource you can hold anymore.

I agree some sort of monitor would be handy.

[KerikBalm]

\Kerbal Space Program\GameData\Squad\Resources

ResourcesGeneric.cfg

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RESOURCE_DEFINITION
{
  name = IntakeAir
  title = Intake Air
  abbreviation = Air
  density = 0.005
  unitCost = 0
  hsp = 10
  flowMode = ALL_VESSEL
  transfer = PUMP
  isTweakable = false
  isVisible = false
}

change false to true, and you should be able to see it.

[sardia]

KER also shows it iirc

[Superfluous J]

4 hours ago, KerikBalm said:

\Kerbal Space Program\GameData\Squad\Resources

ResourcesGeneric.cfg

change false to true, and you should be able to see it.

I stand corrected. Though is it still useful information now with all the changes?

[HebaruSan]

This question comes up intermittently. Here's the first time I hazarded an answer, including a link to the relevant part of the wiki's version history:

 

[KerikBalm]

for the vtol case, it seems like it may be relevant... but for " Planes and SSTOs [that] fly to super high altitude, " its not relevant so much.

Flameout at high altitude is very very rarely due to insufficient "IntakeAir" resource, and is just due to a flameout limit. The jets will produce less and less thrust as they get in thinner air, no matter how much of the IntakeAir resource you have (ie, no matter how much you intake spam). Also as they exceed a certain speed, their thrust will also start to drop. Their thrust drops and drops, and past a certain threshold, you get combustion failure, and its not because you ran out of "IntakeAir".

However, when you start to have flameouts and asymmetric thrust (assuming it starts symmetric, but then becomes asymmetric as the engines spool up), then that is likely an IntakeAir deficiency, and this display should help see the problem before it strikes.

So you're right to want it for VTOL craft, but I don't miss it at all for SSTOs.