am holding off on this flight
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am holding off on this flight
i just refueled my plane on my last flight, it was a refueling flight...
im back at kpit, and was going to head to tenerife, but when i loaded the client, it took away all of my fuel.
here is my log
when i load up the client, this is wat it says
if you look at the buttom of the client it says 243411 already loaded, but up top non of the tanks are filled. i wasnt gonna fill in the tank numbers because i figured i would be charged for it...
i think i know why this happen, or at least from wat...
on my return to kpit, which is my refueling flight, when i went to log the flight i had to manually do it. that was the first time i ever had to do it like that, but it uploaded correctly. but i guess somewhere along the line, it lost my fuel... so i need this corrected quickkly please. thanks.
im back at kpit, and was going to head to tenerife, but when i loaded the client, it took away all of my fuel.
here is my log
when i load up the client, this is wat it says
if you look at the buttom of the client it says 243411 already loaded, but up top non of the tanks are filled. i wasnt gonna fill in the tank numbers because i figured i would be charged for it...
i think i know why this happen, or at least from wat...
on my return to kpit, which is my refueling flight, when i went to log the flight i had to manually do it. that was the first time i ever had to do it like that, but it uploaded correctly. but i guess somewhere along the line, it lost my fuel... so i need this corrected quickkly please. thanks.
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A refueling stop is when an aircraft does not have enough fuel to make it to its final destination,in this case it would divert to another airport and put in enough fuel to finish the initial flight plus an hours reserve fuel.On your flight KBVI to KPIT you filled it to capacity at KBVI and so to land at KPIT you would have to fly to the nearest ocean to dump 200,000kg of fuel so that you would not be too heavy to land at KPIT.
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Standard and Detailed fueling methods are completely different.
At Standart method you enter amount of fuel to be added to present amount in tanks. you'll be charged for added (entered) amount.
At Detailed method you enter not amount to be added but final amount of fuel in tanks after refueling. you'll be charged for "final amount" - "amount before fueling".
So if there was 243411 kgs of fuel onboard and you have entered zeros at Detailed method, fuel was "dumped" back without return of money ...
By the way, real A388 would be crashed during landing with such amount of fuel onboard. You should care about maximum landing weight.
At Standart method you enter amount of fuel to be added to present amount in tanks. you'll be charged for added (entered) amount.
At Detailed method you enter not amount to be added but final amount of fuel in tanks after refueling. you'll be charged for "final amount" - "amount before fueling".
So if there was 243411 kgs of fuel onboard and you have entered zeros at Detailed method, fuel was "dumped" back without return of money ...
By the way, real A388 would be crashed during landing with such amount of fuel onboard. You should care about maximum landing weight.
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That does not make sense to me! Imagine the scenario;Kimis wrote:..By the way, real A388 would be crashed during landing with such amount of fuel onboard. You should care about maximum landing weight.
A B747-400 takes off from Kansas City, in the heart of the USA, for a long range flight. It's fuel tanks are full. As soon as it takes off it develops a serious fault, and needs to land again ASAP. Are you telling me that it would not be able to land due to being too heavy because of its full fuel tanks? It can't dump fuel because it's over land (I am lead to believe that planes can only dump fuel over large stretches of water, such as the ocean - though I must admit that I could be totally wrong. Perhaps the fuel can be dumped over land because it will evaporate before it hits the ground?) So the plane has to fly for several hours in order to either burn off the fuel, or get over the sea in order to dump fuel, and then return.
If a plane can take off with a full load, it must be able to land with a full load, surely!
Or am I totally out on this one?
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Exactly! it would just breake the gears at lest, but most probably wings or airframe would broke, all huge amount of fuel will flame out and all people would die!Myrm wrote:A B747-400 takes off from Kansas City, in the heart of the USA, for a long range flight. It's fuel tanks are full. As soon as it takes off it develops a serious fault, and needs to land again ASAP. Are you telling me that it would not be able to land due to being too heavy because of its full fuel tanks?
Yes, most probably it will circle around while aircraft weight will be inside of landing weight.It can't dump fuel because it's over land (I am lead to believe that planes can only dump fuel over large stretches of water, such as the ocean - though I must admit that I could be totally wrong. Perhaps the fuel can be dumped over land because it will evaporate before it hits the ground?) So the plane has to fly for several hours in order to either burn off the fuel, or get over the sea in order to dump fuel, and then return.
Surely not! forces applied to construction of aircraft are absolutely different during takeoff and landing!If a plane can take off with a full load, it must be able to land with a full load, surely!
Maximum landing weight is not just a number for fun. it's realy important in aviation!
But we are now absolutely of topic here