Calculating Fuel

[shnookumlooks]

I have noticed that FSP asks you how much fuel to load but not how much the estimated fuel burn will be. FS NAVlog doesnt work for me
so does anyone know what the best solution is?

[Mac]

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?Sear...&Go=Search

I use this and it seems to work pretty well.

[Anastasios]

Well, most of the time I fly the Moach 737-700. What I do is I look at the fuel quantity FS9 gives me. Let's say it is 12365. Then I fill the wing
tanks with 6500 each and the center tank always has 25% (Unless you need more ofcourse). This always works for me.

Anastasios.

[Chris41]

What I do that works perfectly is using the flight planner for feul estimate. For my 737-800,900, once the flight planner gives me my estimate I had
850 gallons (flight planner estimates are always off around 850 gallons) to that total and then add an addtional 1500 gallons, which is an hours worth
of feul and required with fs passengers. This gives me 47 minutes to an hour and 8 minutes of reserve feul depending on whether or not I have to do a
"go around" or "circle around" due to an aircraft coming in ahead of me that is traveling much slower than I am able to do (atc sometimes lets a much
smaller aircraft land ahead of me,me being second to land, and not putting in enough space or time between us so that if i don't circle around i'll
pass up the other plane on final--hate it when this happens). I do this every time and end up with my required reserve feul load.
PS: the 850 gallons plus 1500 gallons is what works for my 737-800,900. You might have to play around with these numbers depending on with what
aircraft type you fly. Do a test flight or two with fs passengers and look at where you're at in regards to feul in the flight log at the end of the
flight/s.

[Ceemosp]

I found out that I actually have to set my reserve fuel quite a tad higher than the numbers the fuel calculators come up with.
It is due to the fact that reserve is normally calculated on basis of the fuel consumption on cruise flight to your alternate plus holding
and maneuvering fuel. In FSP it is contrarily based on the average fuel consumption (Actual consumption +climb etc). This is more
important on short hops as it is on long-haul flights.

Greetz Carsten