Air Flow display for air-breathing engines

[Kelderek]

When you view the expanded info panel for any air-breathing engine in the VAB or SPH it shows a flameout %. Once you are in flight though, there is no way to see exactly how much air flow an engine is getting. You can right click on any intakes that you have and see their numbers, but if you right click on a jet engine it does not show anything pertaining to air flow at all. It does show fuel flow, but not air flow. The interactions between multiple air intakes and any given engine can be complex, so it would be nice to see this info when right clicking on a specific air-breathing engine.

I suggest you add a simple line on the right click engine tooltip display right above or below the "fuel flow" line that shows "air flow" and the numeric amount that is currently being received by the engine.

It would also be good to show that value as a percent too, so that we would be able to see at a glance how close that engine is to having a flameout. Something like this: "Air Flow = 0.012U (25%)". (I made up those numbers as an example, and I don't know if the unit of measurement is the same).

[juanml82]

Both KER and MJ have that information, although MJ doesn't display it by default - you need to customize a menu.

I guess you mean to add it in stock. Considering that we don't even have delta-v readouts while in flight, I don't think Squad will do it.

[Kelderek]

They already have fuel flow showing in stock. And you can see numbers when you click on air intakes. This doesn't seem far fetched to me based on what is already in place.

[FleshJeb]

STOCK SOLUTION:

For a few versions, jets have autothrottled down when they get starved for air. That flameout is (i think) 10% (of max, or current max thrust?) for a turbojet? I right-click on my engines, and watch to see when the thrust gets close to 22.5kN. I start manually throttling down at that point.

[Arugela]

Auto throttle would need a means to turn it off. And be off by default. I combine engine types and depend on manually changing stuff to leave orbit. That could be a nightmare.