Classic British Flight Sim

Hi there,

Would anyone have or know what Air Atlantique use or someone like that for a fuel planning?

Maybe it is not used but HOLD, CONT, RES etc. Just I know some people have info from Air Atantique!

Or point me in the right direction to fuel load this beast accurately as possible??

Thanks a mill

Mark

Greetings Mark,

We operate our Daks on a full JAR AOC, and as such conform to standard JAR-OPS regs when it comes to fuel planning. So for our DC-3's we use the following......

Taxy - (to include all expected taxying and power checks) usually 10 IG
Trip - (fuel to destination. Work on 90 IG for the first hour then 80 for every hour after that.)
Contingency - 5% of trip fuel.
Alternate - (fuel to fly from overhead destination then to an alternate plus 5% contingency)
Final feserve fuel - (for us this is 50 IG)
Extra fuel - (any extra fuel if required by the commander i.e. if he expects a long hold, higher headwinds or not to get the route he's planned to take)

Add this all together and you get the total required.

Hope this helps.

Jon.

There you go Mark.. how's that for service!!

Many thanks for that Jon

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Hi there,

Now that is awsome service!!

thanks very much.

Do I take it from your figures that your final reserve fuel is a standard one?

As with some airliner based there final res is 30mins of holding fuel at 1500ft? Is this what your figure equates to?

How many imp gals to a lb?

Thanks again

Mark

markyp wrote:How many imp gals to a lb?

1 Imp Gallon = 1.2 US Gallons (remember that next time you get told that everything is bigger over there )

Therefore at 15degC (assuming 1 US gallon of avgas 6.02lbs), an Imperial gallon of avgas should weigh 7.224lbs.

ferryman wrote:
1 Imp Gallon = 1.2 US Gallons (remember that next time you get told that everything is bigger over there )

Ah yes but some things they make smaller so they can say they have more of them!

BTW wrong section :huf:



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