04-05-2005, 05:03 PM
This is so fantactic! Now I can actually use the weight and payload that the simulator already has implememnted, but now it actually means something.
Recently I've been paying alittle more attention to my fuel settings of my aircraft before flight, and only putting on what is needed. Before I would
just always fly at 100% fuel even if it was a 45 min flight. But extra fuel means extra weight, and the plane has to work harder than it needs to
when it climbs and accelerates, and therefore burning more fuel than it nees to. So the extra fuel I have on board is wasted by it's own weight
promlems! There's just no need for this.
Also less fuel at takeoff means a lot easier takeoff. Many airliners and business jets have a lot more dificult time taking off the runway on a full
tank of gas. They need a higher TO speed, and more runway length to get to that speed. With less fuel, takeoffs are usualy much easier to handle,
and with an hour fuel in the tanks on landing, landings are done at minimum speeds making the aircraft a lot safer and less likely of catastrophe on
touchdown.
Recently I've been paying alittle more attention to my fuel settings of my aircraft before flight, and only putting on what is needed. Before I would
just always fly at 100% fuel even if it was a 45 min flight. But extra fuel means extra weight, and the plane has to work harder than it needs to
when it climbs and accelerates, and therefore burning more fuel than it nees to. So the extra fuel I have on board is wasted by it's own weight
promlems! There's just no need for this.
Also less fuel at takeoff means a lot easier takeoff. Many airliners and business jets have a lot more dificult time taking off the runway on a full
tank of gas. They need a higher TO speed, and more runway length to get to that speed. With less fuel, takeoffs are usualy much easier to handle,
and with an hour fuel in the tanks on landing, landings are done at minimum speeds making the aircraft a lot safer and less likely of catastrophe on
touchdown.
-JaWood