Hi Steve and all,
Between me and Sarah, we have figured out that, at least with some planes, Tramp is burning more fuel than it needs to. In each aircraft or Tramp, you can configure how much fuel it burns based on how much the sim burns while flying.
While the IF assessment estimates the fuel burned per hour for the total flight, Tramp has three values that can be input for fuel burn for each phase of flight. By default, fuel flow is set to LBS and we can change the pounds burned per hour in the climb phase, in the cruise phase and on the descent phase.
Can the IF fuel report give the necessary information for this? I haven't started the long haul tour yet, however I plan to and want to make sure the fuel burn when Tramp flies is suficient.
I think that's why Sarah may be running out of fuel near her destination on these long routes, and why I'm getting inaccurate ranges because Tramp is burning too much because I've got it configured wrong. The Tramp manual says to rely on instruments to try and get the numbers, but we can't read any of those panels currently so...
Just food for thought here and if not I'll try and mess with the Tramp fuel flow to get a more accurate numbers for fuel flow.