Fuel Flight Planning

[Chris Trott]

BTW, for a 2.9 hour flight, I burned about 5194kg, which left me with 3277 in the tanks. So I actually under-fueled slightly and I think the adjustment to the first hour burn will solve that issue as I wanted to land with at least 3500kg (for my alternate and reserve because of an MZFW load).

[Avant-Garde-Aclue]

I just love AFLA's, what's an MZFW load?

[DanKH]

Isn't it Max Zero Fuel Weight?

[Rick Piper]

Hi Guys

I can't get the viscount 800 to show any fuel in the tanks.

i used the client to add the 2000 kg i want for my flight but cant't start the engines as no fuel is showing in any of the 4 tanks

Using Fraser's panel and all Aircraft.cfg parts as per instructions :k:

Regards
Rick

[RAF_Quantum]

Hi Rick

If your game is paused when you 'Fly Booked Flight' fsuipc can't refuel the aircraft. Exit the client, unpause your game and try again. Also see note from Fraser regarding the way FS9 refuels the Viscount. It fuels the inners tanks first and leaves the outer tanks empty (depending on fuel load) so I think you need fuel x-feed for the outer engines.

The way the program distributes fuel seems a problem on Viscounts. If the outer tanks are empty, the inter engine cocks must be opened and the pumps in the outer tanks switched off (low pressure lamps out)

Rgds

John

[Rick Piper]

Hi John

Not paused when loading Client.

tried crossfeed but no luck.

Regards
Rick :sad:

[RAF_Quantum]

Hi Rick,

Very odd, exit the client and load a small % of fuel manually through FS9 'change fuel and payload'. Restart the client, when you click 'fly booked flight' the client will reset the fuel back to 0%. Now select the 'refuel' amount you want and see if fuel changes from 0% to required amount - all with game unpaused. Have you got 'pause on task switch' unchecked, has it 'sneaked' back in somehow?

The only time a pilot should have difficulty refuelling the aircraft is if the game is pause or a pilot hasn't committed to 'Fly Now' in FS9.

Rgds

John

[RAF_Quantum]

Hi Rick

x-feed not in play until we can get some fuel in first, try the above.

Rgds

John

[david balmer]

fuel planning for DC3 Maam.

Taxi 140lbs at 20knts

take off 1093lbs 50lbs manifold pressure, 2300 rpm props

climb 838lbs 38lbs manifold pressure, 2300 rpm props
500fpm

cruise 626lbs 30lbs manifold pressure, 2100 rpm props
4000ft at 137 knots

decent 365lbs 20lbs manifold pressure, 20.5 rpm props
500fpm

landing not worth recording.

aircraft take off and decent range 500ft per min , hurts the passengers ears if higher than 500ft per min. normal ceiling for uk 3000ft to 6500ft.

[DanKH]

A long time ago Tonks gave me these rules of thumbs for the VC10:

10 tonnes for the first hour (start, taxi, T/O)
7,5 tonnes per hour the next three hours
6.0 tonnes per hour here after...
additional 5.5 for circling/go arounds etc.
1.5 tonnes the aim to land with...
5% "just in case

Round the result up to nearest whole number...

eg. 6 hours flight:

10+7.5+7.5+7.5+6+6 = 44.5 tonnes
5.5 + 1.5 (diversity) = 7.0 tonnes
0.05 * 51.5 = 2.6 tonnes
Sum = 54.1 make that 55 tonnes.....