20-10-2005, 12:32 PM
One thought crossed my mind at this moment. I have always a reserve fuel on board but I don't fly online lately.
What happens when I fly online, load fuel with reserve, plan the trip for three hours (so my fuel is for 3:45 at
least) but due to heavy traffic, holdings, ATC vectoring and so on the flight takes 3:20. So after landi I'm 25 minutes
short and the program will penalise me. Is that correct?
This is kinda unfair, isn't it? I had reserve and the reserve was partly used, because for some reasons the flight took
longer than originally planned. Shouldn't it be this way, that the program calculates planned and actual filght time and
computes then the fuel quota which was burned acoordingly?
I don't think that disabling fuel reserve control solves this problem, it's just a shortcut that doesn't add to reality.
Just a thought, though
Best regards
What happens when I fly online, load fuel with reserve, plan the trip for three hours (so my fuel is for 3:45 at
least) but due to heavy traffic, holdings, ATC vectoring and so on the flight takes 3:20. So after landi I'm 25 minutes
short and the program will penalise me. Is that correct?
This is kinda unfair, isn't it? I had reserve and the reserve was partly used, because for some reasons the flight took
longer than originally planned. Shouldn't it be this way, that the program calculates planned and actual filght time and
computes then the fuel quota which was burned acoordingly?
I don't think that disabling fuel reserve control solves this problem, it's just a shortcut that doesn't add to reality.
Just a thought, though
Best regards
Joey Tempest, you actually wrote the soundtrack to my life and I thank you for this with all of my heart...
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LOT Polish Airlines Flight Attendant: B737, EMB-145, EMB-170
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LOT Polish Airlines Flight Attendant: B737, EMB-145, EMB-170